Dr. John Mueller — The Ohio State University

John Mueller holds the Woody Hayes Chair of National Security Studies, Mershon Center, and is professor of Political Science, at Ohio State University where he teaches courses in international relations. He is currently working on terrorism and particularly on the reactions (or over-reactions) it often inspires. His book on the subject, Overblown: How Politicians and the Terrorism Industry Inflate National Security Threats, and Why We Believe Them, was published in November 2006 by Free Press. His next book, Atomic Obsession, to be published next year, suggests that atomic terrorism is highly unlikely and that efforts to prevent nuclear proliferation frequently have damaging results.

Mueller is the author of a multiple-prize-winning book analyzing public opinion during the Korean and Vietnam Wars, War, Presidents and Public Opinion and of Retreat from Doomsday: The Obsolescence of Major War which deals with changing attitudes toward war. Mueller's book about international and civil wars, The Remnants of War (Cornell University Press, 2004) was awarded the Lepgold Prize for the best book on international relations in 2004. Mueller has published scores of articles in such journals as International Security, American Political Science Review, American Interest, Security Studies, Orbis, American Journal of Political Science, National Interest, Foreign Affairs, and many others. He has been a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Cato Institute in Washington, DC, the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and the Norwegian Nobel Institute in Olso.

Before coming to Ohio State in 2000, Mueller was on the faculty at the University of Rochester for many years. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, has been a John Simon Guggenheim Fellow, and has received grants from the National Science Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. He has also received several teaching prizes.