Frank C. Zagare is UB Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York (SUNY). Before joining the faculty at the University of Buffalo, he was an Assistant Professor of Political Science, and an Associate of the Center for International Relations, at Boston University. He has also taught political science and economics at New York University, New York Institute of Technology, and The Cooper Union. Professor Zagare received a B.A. from Fordham University and an M.A. and Ph.D. from New York University. He was a fellow of the MIT/Harvard Summer Program on Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control. He is also a graduate of Brooklyn Preparatory School. In  2005 he received the Susan Strange Award from the International Studies Association. This award recognizes the “person whose singular intellect, assertiveness, and insight most challenge conventional wisdom and intellectual and organizational complacency in the international studies community during the previous year.”

A former Vice President of the International Studies Association, Dr. Zagare has served on the Advisory Panel of the National Science Foundation, on the editorial boards of International Studies Quarterly, International Interactions, and the Oxford Bibliographies Online in International Relations, as a member of the Presidential Nominating Committee and the Professional Rights and Responsibilities Committee of the International Studies Association, as a Councilor for the Peace Science Society (International), as a Council Member of the Conflict Processes Section of the American Political Science Association, and on the Academic Advisory Board of the United Arab Emirates University. His research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the International Studies Association, and the United States Institute of Peace.

Professor Zagare’s main research interests lie in the nexus between security studies and game theory. His theoretical work has focused on deterrence, crises, conflict escalation, and bargaining and negotiation. He has applied game theory to a number of international events, including the Berlin crisis of 1948, great power negotiations over Vietnam in Geneva in 1954 and in Paris from 1968 to 1973, the 1967 and 1973 wars in the Middle East, nato’s 1999 war with Serbia over Kosovo, British foreign policy in 1914, and the strategic relationship of the superpowers during the Cold War.

Dr. Zagare’s books include Game Theory, Diplomatic History and Security Studies (Oxford University Press, 2019); The Games of July: Explaining the Great War (University of Michigan Press, 2011); Perfect Deterrence (with D. Marc Kilgour: Cambridge University Press, 2000); Modeling International Conflict (edited: Gordon & Breach, 1990); The Dynamics of Deterrence (University of Chicago Press, 1987); Exploring the Stability of Deterrence (co-edited with Jacek Kugler: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1987); and Game Theory: Concepts and Applications (Sage Publications, 1984). He is also the author of The Mathematics of Conflict (Consortium for Mathematics and Its Applications, 1986). His articles and reviews have appeared in American Journal of Political Science, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Theoretical Politics, International Studies Review, Journal of Peace Research, International Security, Synthèse, Information and Decision Technologies, International Interactions, Theory and Decision, Conflict Management and Peace Science, American Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Analyse und Kritik, and Social Science Research.