Peter W. Singer
Peter Warren Singer (* 1974 ) is an American political scientist and military historian. He is the director of the Foreign Policy Project on US Policy Towards the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution .
Peter W. Singer received an Artium Baccalaureus from Princeton University in 1997 and a Ph.D. from Harvard University in 2001. PhD . Later he served in the Balkans Task Force of the US Department of Defense .
With his book Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry (Cornell University Press, 2003) on the private mercenary industry , he won the 2004 Gladys M. Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association for the best political science publication in the field of US Politics.
In 2009 Singer published the book Wired For War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century . It describes and critically questions the use and further development of military robots, unmanned ground vehicles and unmanned drones in modern warfare.
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter W. Singer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Website of Peter W. Singer (English)
- Peter W. Singer on the website of the Brookings Institution (English)
- Peter W. Singer on the website of the Körber Foundation
- Peter W. Singer on procon.org (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Singer, Peter W. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Singer, Peter Warren (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American political scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1974 |