John M. Schuessler

John M. Schuessler is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Affairs at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University. He received his PhD from the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, specializing in international relations. Before coming to the Bush School, John was an Associate Professor of Strategy at the Air War College, a Lecturer and Post-Doctoral Fellow with the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago, and a Research Fellow with the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. His principal research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of international relations theory, security studies, and diplomatic history. He has a 2015 book, Deceit on the Road to War: Presidents, Politics and American Democracy, with Cornell University Press as well as an article on the same topic, "The Deception Dividend: FDR's Undeclared War," which appeared in the Spring 2010 issue of International Security. He has co-authored an article on "A Realist Foreign Policy for the United States" with Sebastian Rosato, which appeared in the December 2011 issue of Perspectives on Politics.