He previously worked for the U.S. Department of Defense as an Associate Professor and Director of the South and Central Asia Program at the College of International Security Affairs, at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. Dr. Meiser has also taught at the University of California, Santa Barbara, The Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Mannheim. His book Power and Restraint: The Rise of the United States, 1898-1941 was published in 2015 by Georgetown University Press. He recently published articles in Special Operations Journal and Parameters: The U.S. Army War College Quarterly.