My motivation for writing Why Alliances Fail came from a personal experience, rather than a strictly academic one. Witnessing this experience while working overseas in the Arab world motivated my book’s central puzzle.
Matt Buehler
Dr. Matt Buehler is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Tennessee, and a global security fellow at the Howard H. Baker Jr. Center for Public Policy. He has held research fellowships at the Middle East Initiative at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, and also at the Center for International and Regional Studies at Georgetown University in Qatar. He serves as Research Note & Reviews Editor of Mediterranean Politics, and will become one of the journal’s co-Editors in summer 2019.