I am a non-resident fellow at the Global and National Security Institute (GNSI) at the University of South Florida and an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. I am also a member of the Military Ethics Research Lab and Innovation Network (MERLIN) at UNSW Canberra.

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

Previously, I was a senior research scholar at Stanford CISAC; program manager (GS-15) for professional military education at the Department of Defense Civilian Protection Center of Excellence; senior research fellow in Conflict and Law at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC); and assistant professor of International Studies at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University.

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

My research is interdisciplinary, focused on security, military operations, and the role of law, ethics, and norms in shaping conflict behavior — including military training, culture and command, AI and human-machine teaming, urban warfare, and ethics and the use of force. My work has appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Journal of Peace Research, Security Studies, Research & 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 studies with the Department of Defense, the Department of State, the U.S. Institute of Peace, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, CSIS, the ICRC, the Center for Civilians in Conflict, and Human Rights First. My grants and fellowships include the ICRC, Duke University’s E. Bayard Halsted Scholarship, the Bradley Foundation, and multiple Foreign Language and Area Studies fellowships.

I served as a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Air Force (active duty and reserve), with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Email me at ambell@iusvis.org or follow me on Twitter at @AndrewBellUS.