Robert Trager

Robert TragerRobert Trager is assistant professor of political science at the University of California, Los Angeles. His research focuses on how actors in the international system form beliefs about the intentions of other actors, and in particular on the role of diplomacy. He also works on the determinants of coercive success and international terrorism, and has published in International Security, The Political Methodologist, and The New York Times. Before joining the faculty at UCLA, Mr. Trager was a fellow in the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University and at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. His research has been supported by the George W. Ellis Fellowship, the Public Policy Consortium, the Columbia University Center for Conflict Resolution, the Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy, the National Science Foundation, the Summer Workshop on the Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy, and the Institute for Qualitative Research Methods. Mr. Trager received his B.A. from Middlebury College and an M.Sc. with distinction from the London School of Economics. Before returning to graduate school at Columbia University, he worked in the Investment Banking Division of Lehman Brothers in New York.