About Robert Lieber
Robert J. Lieber (born September 29, 1941) is an American academic and Professor of Government and International Affairs at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. Lieber is the author or editor of eighteen books and has served as the Chair of the Government Department and as Interim Chair of Psychology. == Education == Lieber completed his undergraduate degree in political science at the University of Wisconsin. Lieber spent a year in the Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago, where he studied with the distinguished realist scholar Hans Morgenthau. Lieber continued his graduate program in Government at Harvard, earning his doctorate in political science in 1968. At Harvard, Lieber took classes from distinguished scholars including Stanley Hoffmann, Samuel H. Beer, Louis Hartz, and the future Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger. Lieber began his academic career as an assistant professor at the University of California, Davis. During his years at UCD, he took a number of research leaves, including a year's postgraduate study at St. Antony's College, Oxford and visiting research appointments at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, the Atlantic Institute and the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques in Paris, and the Woodrow Wilson Center and Brookings Institution in Washington. He was appointed to a professorship at Georgetown in 1982. === Public Intellectual === Lieber has been invited on to various outlets to discuss topics including oil prices, American declinism, and American foreign policy strategy.
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