Professor Beatrice Heuser holds a Chair in International Relations at the University of Reading.  She holds a BA (History) and MA (International History) from the University of London (Bedford College and the LSE);  DPhil (Political Science) from the University of Oxford; and a Higher Doctorate (Habilitation) from the Philipps-University of Marburg. From 1991 to 2003 she taught at the Department of War Studies, King’s College London, where she last held the Chair in International and Strategic Studies. In 1997-8, she spent a sabbatical at NATO Headquarters as a consultant. From 2003 to 2007, she was Director of Research at the Military History Research Office of the Bundeswehr. She has also taught in France at the University of Reims and the Graduate School of Journalism in Lille, and in Germany at the University of Potsdam and the University of the Bundeswehr near Munich. 

Professor Heuser has published several books and many articles on strategy and mentality (“culture”), international relations, and the history of war and peace between states, including several books and many articles on nuclear strategy and NATO. She has also published extensively on Clausewitz, with her book Reading Clausewitz having come out with Pimlico in 2002. She has just completed The Evolution of Strategy: Thinking War from Antiquity to the Present (forthcoming with Cambridge University Press in 2010) and The Strategy Makers: Thoughts on War and Society from Machiavelli to Clausewitz (to be published by Greenwood Press in 2010). Her research interests are: strategy (especially nuclear strategy and counterinsurgency); war and peace in international relations; security/defence and the military policies of Britain, France, Germany and the United States; and the roles of historical lessons, myths, mentalité, and political culture in security/defence and military policy.

(Current as of April 2010)