Andrew Stravers

Andrew Stravers is a Lecturer at the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST), Carnegie Mellon University, teaching Contemporary American Foreign Policy (84-325/84-625) and US Grand Strategy (84-380/84-680).

His academic background includes:

• PhD from the University of Texas, where he was a graduate fellow at the Clements Center for National Security.

Dr. Stravers specializes in US grand strategy with empirical focus on overseas military basing politics. His dissertation analyzed President-Congress dynamics regarding foreign bases, while postdoctoral work expanded to host-country perspectives through three years of survey research across fourteen nations and fieldwork in ten US-host countries. His methodology emphasizes demographic analysis of base support/opposition and protest triggers.

His research output spans top political science journals including the American Political Science Review and Journal of Global Security Studies, alongside policy commentary in War on the Rocks, The National Interest, and The Diplomat.