Biography

Pete Furia teaches the track foundation and capstone seminar courses in Global Security and Justice as well as other Global Studies and Politics courses on international relations.

Much of Pete's research addresses public opinion and comparative foreign policy and utilizes online and survey data to test claims about group identity and inter-group enmity in international relations. His other interests include mass-elite relations in democracies, the patriotism-cosmopolitanism debate and the history of international political thought. His research articles have appeared in Global Society, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly and Polity and he has also published over a dozen book chapters and shorter articles. He is co-editor (with Richard Sobel and Bethany Barratt) of Public Opinion and International Intervention: Lessons from the Iraq War (Potomac 2012).

Pete has previously served as the director of Global Security and Justice, the Politics Distinguished Majors Program and the Master of Arts Program in Religion, Politics and Conflict.

In addition to his academic work, Pete has consulted for governmental and nongovernmental organizations ranging from the Department of Homeland Security to Oxfam America.

He holds a doctorate in Politics from Princeton University.