I am a senior research scholar at the Center for International Security and Conflict at Stanford University focused on the study and promotion of law and ethics in military operations.

I earned my Ph.D. in political science from Duke University (in Security, Peace and Conflict), a J.D.-M.A. from the University of Virginia School of Law (in international law), and an M.T.S. from Duke Divinity School (in ethics and just war theory).

Previously, I served as the lead for professional military education at the U.S. Department of Defense Civilian Protection Center of Excellence; Senior Research Fellow in Conflict and Law at the International Committee of the Red Cross; and assistant professor of international studies at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies at Indiana University.

I have also been a visiting professor at the U.S. Army War College; a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University; a research fellow at the Stockdale Center for Ethical Leadership at the U.S. Naval Academy; a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Law and Policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); a visiting research fellow at the Modern War Institute at the U.S. Military Academy; and a visiting fellow at the Centre for U.S. Politics at University College London (UCL).  

My research is interdisciplinary in nature and focuses on international security and conflict, international law, political violence, and the role of law, ethics, and norms in shaping conflict behavior. In my research, I examine military training, military culture, urban warfare, counterinsurgency, and humanitarian intervention.

My analysis has been published in venues such as the Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, Research and Politics, International Interactions, Parameters, ASIL Proceedings, and the Journal of Experimental Political Science, as well as in Newsweek, the Washington Post, The Hill, War on the Rocks, Just Security, and EJIL:Talk! among others.

I have advised or led major studies with policy organizations such as the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP), Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), the ICRC, the Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC) and Human Rights First (HRF). I have received grants and fellowships from the ICRC, Duke University (the E. Bayard Halsted Scholarship), the Bradley Foundation, in addition to receiving multiple Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships. I am also a research affiliate of the Military Ethics Research Lab and Innovation Network at UNSW Canberra.

I served as an intelligence officer in the U.S. Air Force with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Email me at andrewmbell.us(at)gmail.com or follow me on Twitter at @AndrewBellUS.