Steven E. Miller
Steven E. Miller is director of the International Security Program, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; editor in chief of the quarterly journal International Security and also coeditor of the International Security Program's book series, BCSIA Studies in International Security (published by the MIT Press). Previously, he was senior research fellow at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and taught defense and arms control studies in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is coauthor of the recent monograph, War with Iraq: Costs, Consequences, and Alternatives (2002) and a frequent contributor to Nezavisimaya Gazeta. Miller is editor or coeditor of some two dozen books, including, most recently, Offense, Defense, and War (October 2004), The Russian Military: Power and Policy (September 2004), Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict—Revised Edition (2001), and The Rise of China (2000).
Miller was named to the 2006 Class of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, where he has been a member of their Committee on International Security Studies (CISS). He is also cochair of the US Pugwash Committee, a member of the Council of International Pugwash, a member of the Advisory Committee of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), a member of the Scientific Committee of the Landau Network Centro Volta (Italy), and formerly a member of the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS).
Miller was born and raised in North Hollywood, California. He did his undergraduate degree at Occidental College in Los Angeles. He received a Master of Arts in Law and Diplomacy (M.A.L.D.) and a Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.