George Kieh Jr. is presently Professor of Political Science at Grand Valley State University (GVSU) in Allendale, Michigan, and was its Dean of International Studies from 2001 to 2003. His previous academic appointments were Chairman of the Department of Political Science and Professor of Political Science and International Studies, and Director of the Conflict and Development Studies Project at Morehouse College, Atlanta, Georgia.

Dr. Kieh received his B.A. in Political Science from the University of Liberia and his M.A. and Ph.D. in Political Science from Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.

George Kieh's research interests are in the areas of conflict and peace studies, security studies, American foreign policy, international organizations, democratization, civil society, and the military in Africa. He has authored Dependency and the Foreign Policy of a Small Power: The Liberian Case, other books, numerous monographs, book chapters, and articles in scholarly journals, including The Western Journal of Black Studies, Social Science Journal, Arab Studies Quarterly, Small Wars and Insurgencies, Peace Review, Low Intensity Conflict and Law Enforcement; four others books are forthcoming.

Also a political activist, Dr. Kieh was standard bearer of the New Deal Movement (political party) and a presidential aspirant in the historic October 2005 election in the Republic of Liberia.