Associate Professor
Ph.D, UCLA, 1996
Zachary Selden focuses on US national security and alliances with an emphasis on the transatlantic relationship. His first book, Economic Sanctions as Instruments of American Foreign Policy (Praeger,1999) examines the use of sanctions and provides a framework for understanding when and why they succeed or fail in furthering American national interests. In Alignment, Alliance, and American Grand Strategy (University of Michigan Press, 2016), he examines the different forms of alliance relations that the United States maintains, and how these alliances can be leveraged to ensure American security interests at a relatively low cost. His current research focuses on the development of the intelligence community and how specific events led to the growth of its size and power