He is the author of two books, The Weary Titan: Britain and the Experience of Relative Decline, 1895–1905 (which received the Edgar Furniss National Security Book Award), and In the Shadow of the Garrison State: America's Anti-Statism and Its Cold War Grand Strategy. His areas of interest include international relations, international security in East Asia, foreign policy, and defense policy. Friedberg has been a fellow at the Smithsonian Institution's Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, the Norwegian Nobel Institute, and Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, and has served as a consultant to several agencies of the U.S. government. In 2001-2002 he was the first holder of the Henry Alfred Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the Library of Congress. In 2003-2005 he served as a deputy assistant for National Security Affairs in the Office of the Vice President. He is a member of the Secretary of State's Advisory Committee on Democracy Promotion. Ph.D. Harvard University.