Jeffrey W. Legro is Vice Provost for Global Affairs, Professor of Politics, and Randolph P. Compton Professor in the Miller Center at the University of Virginia. In 2011, he was a Fulbright-Nehru Senior Researcher at the Institute for Defense and Strategic Analyses in New Delhi.
A specialist on international relations, Legro is author of Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (Cornell University Press, 2005) and Cooperation under Fire: Anglo-German Restraint during World War II (Cornell University Press, 1995). He is co-editor, with Melvyn Leffler, of To Lead the World: U.S. Strategy after the Bush Doctrine (Oxford University Press, 2008) and In Uncertain Times: American Foreign Policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11 (Cornell University Press, 2011). In addition, he has contributed to such volumes as The Culture of National Security (Columbia University Press, 1996), China’s Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics (Cornell University Press,2008), Avoiding Trivia: The Role of Strategic Planning in American Foreign Policy (Brookings Institution Press, 2009) and International Relations Theory and the Consequences of Unipolarity (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Legro is also a co-founder and faculty associate of the Governing America in a Global Era Program at the Miller Center. He has chaired the American Political Science Association (APSA) Task Force on U.S. Standing in the World, and has served as president of APSA’s International History and Politics section. His articles on American foreign policy, international cooperation and conflict, China’s future in world politics, international norms and law, military doctrine and strategy, and the causes of foreign policy ideas and national identity have appeared in Foreign Policy, The American Political Science Review, International Organization, International Security, American Journal of Political Science, European Journal of International Relations, Perspectives on Politics, and the Cambridge Review of International Relations.
He has been awarded fellowships or grants from the Fulbright Scholar Program, Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Institute of Peace, The Ford Foundation, Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, Institute for the Study of World Politics, and Harvard University’s Olin Institute and Center for Science and International Affairs.
Legro received his B.A. from Middlebury College and Ph.D. from UCLA. He previously taught at the University of Minnesota, and was a Fulbright professor at China Foreign Affairs University in Beijing.
