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Peter W. Singer

Peter W. Singer

Director, 21st Century Defense Initiative
Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy

Peter W. Singer is the director of the 21st Century Defense Initiative and a senior fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings. Singer’s research focuses on three core issues: the future of war, current U.S. defense needs and future priorities, and the future of the U.S. defense system. Singer lectures frequently to U.S. military audiences and is the author of several books and articles, including Corporate Warriors and Children at War.

Expertise

Contemporary warfare; foreign policy; national security; peacekeeping; terrorism; U.S. relations with the Islamic world

Background

Current Positions
Senior Fellow and Director, Brookings 21st Century Defense Initiative

Past Positions
Senior Fellow and Director, Brookings Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World; Doctoral Fellow, Harvard University; Action Officer, Balkans Task Force, Office of the Secretary of Defense; Special Assistant, International Peace Academy; Instructor, Teaching Assistant, Duke University Talent Identification Program

Education

Ph.D., Harvard University, 2001; A.B., Princeton University, 1997

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Q&A with Peter Singer

Winning the War of Ideas in the Islamic World

"We really have to see the entrance of the new president, whoever it is, as a possibility to sort of reboot our relationship with the Islamic world ... All the polling shows that it's not just American policies that are really sinking deeply within the Islamic world, but it's beginning to be respect for America itself. Whoever that president is has a chance ... to prevent these kind of perceptions from sinking in for the long term."

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