At the University of Minnesota, Professor Ron Krebs (Ph.D., Columbia University) conducts research at the juncture of international relations and comparative politics, with particular interests in the origins and consequences of international conflict and military service and in rhetoric, narrative, and politics. He is the author of Narrative and the Making of US National Security (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which won the 2016 Robert L. Jervis and Paul W. Schroeder Best Book Award in International History and Politics and the 2016 Giovanni Sartori Book Award for the best book developing or applying qualitative methods. Professor Krebs is also the author of Fighting for Rights: Military Service and the Politics of Citizenship (Cornell University Press, 2006), and coeditor of In War's Wake: International Conflict and the Fate of Liberal Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and of Rhetoric and Grand Strategy, a special issue of Security Studies (2015).
