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Moritz S. Graefrath, Ph.D., is a postdoctoral fellow in security and foreign policy at William & Mary’s Global Research Institute, a nonresident Fellow with the Institute for Global Affairs at Eurasia Group, and an affiliate scholar with the Nanovic Institute for European Studies. Beginning this fall, he will be the Wick Cary Assistant Professor of International Security at the University of Oklahoma’s College of International Studies.
Graefrath’s research, which has appeared or is forthcoming in International Theory, the European Journal of International Security, Global Studies Quarterly, the Cambridge Review of International Affairs and Philosophy of the Social Sciences, operates at the intersection of IR theory and international security, focusing on great power politics, grand strategy and conceptual innovation. He is particularly interested in understanding the causes, processes and consequences of order collapse in international politics.
In addition, he conducts research on the nature of international cooperation and global governance as well as the methodology of concept formation in the social sciences.
Policy analysis and commentary based on his research has appeared in War on the Rocks, Lawfare and on The Insider podcast.
In 2024, Graefrath received the John McCain Dissertation Award at the Munich Security Conference. He previously served as a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute (2023-24) and as a Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Fellow with a joint appointment at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and MIT’s Security Studies Program (2022-23).
He completed his doctorate in political science at the University of Notre Dame, where he was a Fellow with the Notre Dame International Security Center. Graefrath holds a master of arts degree in political science from the University of Notre Dame and a bachelor of arts degree in philosophy and economics from the University of Bayreuth, Germany.
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