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Robert Schub
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Subfield: International Relations, Doctoral Faculty
Office: Hickman Hall - 606
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News Items Referenced:
Prof. Schub Discusses Racial Inequality in War
Specialties:
International Security, Leaders, Bureaucracy, US Foreign Policy
Bio:
Prof. Schub's research addresses international security with a focus on (1) the senior officials who make decisions regarding war and peace, (2) the uncertainty they confront when making these decisions, and (3) the soldiers who bear the costs of these decisions. His book, Wars of Ignorance (Oxford University Press), addresses how assessment processes contribute to the outbreak of international conflict with an emphasis on the bureaucratic roots of leader beliefs. Related studies further address the role of advisers in formulating foreign policy and disentangle the disparate effects of uncertainty on leader decisions. In other work Prof. Schub studies the individuals who bear the costs of war with a focus on racial dimensions of burden sharing and service-member attitudes toward conflict. Before coming to Rutgers, he was an assistant professor at the University of Nebraska, a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Oxford, and received his PhD from the Department of Government at Harvard University. During his spare time he heads outdoors with his wife and kids to hike and explore.
Teaching:
- Introduction to International Relations, 01:790:102-Fall 2025
- American Foreign Policy, 01:790:39
- Strategy in International Relations, 01:790:322
Publications:
Book

Schub, Robert. Wars of Ignorance: Silenced Advisers and International Crises.Wars of Ignorance: Silenced Advisers and International Crises." Oxford University Press, 2025.

Selected Articles
- Connor Huff, et al. "Racial Inequality in War," American Political Science Review, forthcoming.
- Jost, Tyler, et al. "Advisers and Aggregation in Foreign Policy Decision Making." International Organization, vol. 78, no. 1, 2024, pp. 1-37.
- Demarest, Heidi, et al. "Bureaucracy and Cyber Coercion." International Studies Quarterly, vol. 68, no. 1, 2024, p. sqad103
- Schub, Robert. "Informing the Leader: Bureaucracies and International Crises." American Political Science Review, vol. 116, no. 4, 2022, pp. 1460-1476.
- Jost, Tyler, et al. "The Character and Origins of Military Attitudes on the Use of Force." International Studies Quarterly, vol. 66, no. 2, 2022.
- Krainin, Colin, and Robert Schub. "Alliance Dynamics in the Shadow of Shifting Power." International Studies Quarterly, vol. 65, no. 4, 2021, pp. 905-918.
- Huff, Connor, and Robert Schub. "Segregation, Integration, and Death: Evidence from the Korean War." *International Organization*, vol. 75, no. 3, 2021, pp. 858-879.
- Cohen, Dara Kay, et al. "At War and at Home: The Consequences of US Woman Combat Casualties." *Journal of Conflict Resolution*, vol. 65, no. 4, 2021, pp. 647-671.
- Schub, Robert. "When Prospective Leader Turnover Promotes Peace." *International Studies Quarterly*, vol. 64, no. 3, 2020, pp. 510-522.