Zachary Shore is Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute of European Studies, University of California, Berkeley. He earned his doctorate in modern history at Oxford, performed postdoctoral research at Harvard, and held a fellowship at Stanford’s Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences.
Professor Shore is a historian of international conflict whose research focuses on foreign policy decision making. His research interests include: 20th-Century International History, Late Modern Europe, Interwar Era Germany, Islam in Europe, Strategy and Policy.
His books include:
Grad School Essentials: A Crash Course in Scholarly Skills. University of California Press, 2016.
A Sense of the Enemy: The High-Stakes History of Reading Your Rival’s Mind. Oxford University Press, 2014.
Blunder: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions. Bloomsbury, 2008.
Breeding Bin Ladens: America, Islam, and the Future of Europe. The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
What Hitler Knew: The Battle for Information in Nazi Foreign Policy. Oxford University Press, 2003.
