Confronting Reality: President Obama’s Two War Inheritance

Dr. Terriff joined the Department of Political Science in 2008, after having been a member of the Department of Political Science and International Studies at the University of Birmingham, UK, for twelve and half years. While in the UK, Dr. Terriff was the recipient of three UK Economic and Social Research Council grants to conduct international research on change in military organizations and transatlantic security issues. His main areas of research interest are change in military organizations, with a particular emphasis on change in the US military; the changing character of warfare; US security policy; and NATO/transatlantic security issues. Dr. Terriff is the Arthur J. Child Chair of American Security Policy, a Senior Research Fellow of the Centre for Military and Strategic Studies, and a Fellow of the Institute of US Policy Studies.