Curriculum Vitae

NINA TANNENWALD

Brown University Department of Political Science

Box 1844, 36 Prospect St. Providence, RI 02912

(401) 935-9151 ninat@brown.edu

January 2019

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Brown University: Director, International Relations Program, July 2014- Faculty Fellow, Watson Institute for International Studies, July 2013 - Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science, July 2012-

Associate Research Professor, Watson Institute for International Studies, 2006-2011 1

Director, International Relations Program, 2003-2006 Joukowsky Family Assistant Research Professor, Watson Institute, Brown, 1997-2006.

Other Academic Institutions: Visiting Associate Professor, Cornell Department of Government, and Peace Studies Program,

2006-2007. Visiting Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Stanford University, Winter 2003,

and Visiting Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, 2002-03. Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1995-

1997. Policy Positions: Franklin Fellow, U.S. State Department, Washington, D.C., Bureau of International

Security and Nonproliferation, 2012-2013.

Intern, U.S. Department of State, American Embassy, Amman, Jordan, Economic Section, Summer 1985.

Legislative Assistant/Researcher, Friends Committee on National Legislation, Washington, D.C., 1982–83.

1When the Watson Institute was restructured in June 2011, all research faculty positions were phased out.

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Consultant, writer, United Nations Association, New York, NY, 1984, 1987. TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS International relations, international security, weapons of mass destruction, arms control

and disarmament, nuclear nonproliferation;

Human rights and the laws of war, ethical issues in the use of force. International institutions, law and organization

EDUCATION Ph.D Department of Government, Cornell University. 1996.

International Relations, Political Theory M.I.A. Columbia School of International and Public Affairs, 1987.

International Law and Organization. B.A. Dartmouth College, 1982.

Anthropology.

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS Lepgold Prize for Best Book in International Relations, 2009. Finalist (top 3), Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, 2009. Nominee for Hazeltine Teaching Citation, May 2008. Carnegie Corporation Scholar, 2001-2003. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant, 2000-2001. Joukowsky Family endowed assistant professorship, Brown University.

Dissertation nominated by Cornell University for the American Political Science Association's Helen Dwight Reid Award for best dissertation in international relations, 1996.

Post-doctoral Fellowship, Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, 1995– 1996.

MacArthur Fellowship, Frankfurt Peace Research Institute, Germany, 1992. Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Center for International Security and Arms Control, Stanford

University, 1991–92. Brookings Dissertation Fellowship (1991-92, declined).

Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Center for Strategic and International Studies, UCLA (1991-92, declined).

Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University,1989–91.

Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics, 1989-90. MacArthur Fellow and Summer Research Fellowships, Cornell Peace Studies Program, 1987-

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1991 Baruch Fellowship, United Nations Association of the USA, New York, NY, 1984.

DAAD Scholarship for study in Bremen, West Germany, 1982. German Consulate Book Award for Academic Excellence in German, Dartmouth College,

1982. PUBLICATIONS Books

Matthew Evangelista and Nina Tannenwald, eds., Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? (Oxford

University Press, September 2017).

Nina Tannenwald, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons

Since 1945, (Cambridge University Press, December 2007). Awarded Georgetown University’s Joseph Lepgold Prize for Best Book in International Relations (April 2009); Finalist (top 3), Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order (December 2009).

Nina Tannenwald and William C. Wohlforth, eds., “The Role of Ideas and the End of the Cold

War,” Special Issue of The Journal of Cold War Studies Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring 2005). Co-authored introduction. Peer-reviewed article listed below.

Chapters in Books

Nina Tannenwald, “The Legacy of the Nuclear Taboo in the 21st Century,” in Michael Gordin

and John Ikenberry, eds. Global Hiroshima: The History, Politics and Legacies of Nuclear Weapons (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2019).

Nina Tannenwald, “Assessing the Effects and Effectiveness of the 1949 Geneva

Conventions,” in Matthew Evangelista and Nina Tannenwald, eds. Do the Geneva Conventions Matter? (Oxford 2017), pp. 1-34.

Nina Tannenwald, “Normative Strategies for Disarmament,” in Nikola Hynek and Michal

Smetana, eds., Global Nuclear Disarmament: Strategic, Political and Regional Perspectives, Czech Institute of International Relations (Routledge, 2015), pp. 107- 121.

Nina Tannenwald, “The Status and Future of the Nuclear Taboo,” in Harsh V. Pant, ed.,

Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation (Routledge, 2012), pp. 62-74.

Nina Tannenwald, “Gerechtigkeit und Fairness im Nuklearen Nichtverbreitungsregime:” in

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Claudia Baumgart-Ochse, Niklas Shörnig, Simone Wizotski, and Jonas Wolff, eds., Auf Dem Weg Zu Just Peace Governance (Nomos 2011). German translation.

Nina Tannenwald, “The United Nations and Debates Over Weapons of Mass Destruction,” in

Richard Price and Mark Zacher, eds., The United Nations and Global Security (Palgrave, 2004), pp. 3-20.

Nina Tannenwald, "Norms and Deterrence: The Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Taboos," co-

author, Richard Price, in Peter Katzenstein, ed., The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics (Columbia University Press, 1996), pp. 114-152.

Nina Tannenwald, "The Changing Role of U.S. Nuclear Weapons," in Michele Flournoy, ed.,

Nuclear Weapons After the Cold War: Guidelines for U.S. Policy (New York: HarperCollins, 1993), pp. 36-71.

Nina Tannenwald, "The UN and Peacekeeping," in Donald Puchala, ed., Issues Before the

39th UN General Assembly (New York: United Nations Association, 1984). Articles

Nina Tannenwald, “The Vanishing Nuclear Taboo? How Disarmament Fell Apart,” Foreign Affairs, 97:6 (November/December 2018).

Nina Tannenwald, “How Strong is the Nuclear Taboo Today?” Washington Quarterly 41:3 (November 2018).

Nina Tannenwald, “The Great Unraveling: The Future of the Nuclear Normative Order,”

Occasional Paper, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Cambridge, MA: April 2018).

Nina Tannenwald, “Renewing a Regime of Nuclear Restraint,” Policy Roundtable 1-4 on U.S.

Nuclear Policy, International Security Studies Forum on H-Diplo (December 22, 2016).

Nina Tannenwald, “Process Tracing and Security Studies,” Security Studies, 24:2 (2015), pp.

219-227.

Nina Tannenwald, “Justice and Fairness in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime,” Ethics and International Affairs (Fall 2013).

Nina Tannenwald, “Qualitative Methods: The New Oppressors?” Contribution to a

symposium on “Should We Discard the ‘Qualitative’ vs. ‘Quantitative’ Distinction?”

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edited by Deepa Prakesh and Audie Klotz, International Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2007), pp. 764-767.

Nina Tannenwald, “The Threat of Weapons in Space,” Radiations (a publication of the

National Physics Honor Society), Vol. 13, No. 1 (Spring 2007), pp. 6-11.

Nina Tannenwald, “Nuclear Weapons and the Vietnam War,” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 29, No. 4 (August 2006), pp. 675-722.

Nina Tannenwald, “A Taboo Subject,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 62, No. 3

(May/June 2006), p. 64.

Nina Tannenwald, “Stigmatizing the Bomb: Origins of the Nuclear Taboo,” International Security, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 5-49. [lead article]

Nina Tannenwald, “Ideas and Explanation: Advancing the Research Agenda,” in Nina

Tannenwald and William C. Wohlforth, eds., “The Role of Ideas and the End of the Cold War,” Special Issue of The Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Spring 2005), pp. 13-42.

Nina Tannenwald, “Il Santuario Spaziale.” [“Space Sanctuary”] Limes (a leading Italian

journal of foreign affairs), No. 5 (Fall 2004), pp. 75-84. Translated into Italian. Reprinted in English as “The Threat of Weapons in Space,” in Sukhvinder Kaur Multani, ed., Space Security (Icfai University Press, Hyderabad, India, 2009), pp. 34- 48.

Nina Tannenwald, “Law Versus Power on the High Frontier: The Case for a Rule-Based

Regime for Outer Space,” Yale Journal of International Law, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer 2004), pp. 363-422.

Nina Tannenwald, “Nixing Nukes in Vietnam,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol. 59, No.

3 (May/June 2003). With Peter Hayes, pp. 52-59.

Nina Tannenwald, “Keeping Weapons From Terrorists: The Urgent Need for Arms Control,” Brown Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Winter 2002), pp. 27-36.

Nina Tannenwald, “Why Haven’t We Had a Nuclear War in the Past 50 Years, and How Do

We Make Sure We Don’t Have One in the Next 50?” Brown Faculty Bulletin (Fall 2001).

Nina Tannenwald, “Should Traditional Nuclear Deterrence Be Abandoned?” Perspectives on

Ethics and International Affairs, newsletter of the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, No. 4 (Spring 2001).

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Nina Tannenwald, “U.S. Arms Control Policy in a Time Warp,” Ethics and International Affairs Vol. 15, No. 1 (April 2001), pp. 51-70. Reprinted in a 2008 teaching supplement, “a guide to the best articles from the journal for use in the classroom.”

Nina Tannenwald, “The Bomb and Its Discontents.” International Studies Review, Vol. 1, No.

3 (Fall 1999), pp. 105-118. Review essay of Lawrence S. Wittner, Resisting the Bomb: A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954-1970 (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1997), Jeffrey W. Knopf, Domestic Society and International Cooperation: The Impact of Protest on U.S. Arms Control Policy (Cambridge, U.K: Cambridge University Press, 1998), and Stephen I. Schwartz, ed., Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940 (Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1998).

Nina Tannenwald, “The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative Basis of

Nuclear Non-Use,” International Organization Vol. 53, No. 3 (Summer 1999), pp. 433-468. [lead article]

Nina Tannenwald, “Conference Report: Understanding the End of the Cold War,” Cold War

International History Project Bulletin, No. 11 (Winter 1998).

Nina Tannenwald and Ann Florini, On the Front Lines: The United Nations' Role in Preventing and Containing Conflict. A briefing book. (New York: United Nations Association, 1984).

Book Reviews

Review of Todd M. Sechser and Matthew Fuhrmann, Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy (Cambridge 2017), forthcoming in H-Diplo.

Review of Eric Schlosser, Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident

and the Illusion of Safety, in the San Francisco Chronicle, September 20, 2013.

Review of T.V. Paul, The Tradition of Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons (Stanford, 2009), Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Fall 2010).

Review of Maria Rost Rublee, Nonproliferation Norms: Why States Choose Nuclear

Restraint, The Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 16, No. 3 (November 2009), pp. 527-32.

Review of Theo Farrell, The Norms of War: Cultural Beliefs and Modern Conflict (Lynn Rienner 2005), International Studies Review (2006).

“International Law Meets International Relations,” review of Michael Byers, Custom, Power

and the Power of Rules (Cambridge University Press, 1999), Ethics and International Affairs (Winter 2000).

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Opinion Pieces 2015-2018

“Use Trump Tax Cuts for Stadium,” Providence Journal, January 12, 2018. “The UN Just Passed a Treaty Outlawing Nuclear Weapons. That Actually Matters,”

Washington Post, July 17, 2017 (Monkey Cage). “It’s the Occupation, Stupid,” Providence Journal, July 14, 2016. “How to Pay for the New AAA Stadium,” Providence Journal, June 22, 2015. “Israeli Elections: Is Racism a Jewish Value?” Jewish Voice, March 26, 2015.

2009-2014

“Bring Israel, Palestine to World Court,” Providence Journal, May 7, 2014. “Who Needs Recess?” Providence Journal, March 23, 2014. “Contain Israel, Compel Iran,” op-ed at CNN.opinion, March 15, 2012, with Huss Banai. “Using Religion to Restrain Iran’s Nuclear Program,” guest opinion at walt.foreignpolicy.com,

February 24, 2012. “Israel Should Support Palestine Statehood at the UN,” Jewish Voice and Herald, September

30, 2011. “Israel Sinks Itself in Gaza,” Jewish Voice and Herald, June 11, 2010. “Memo to JCPA: Better Public Relations Will Not Save Israel,” Jewish Voice and Herald, April 2, 2010

“Congress Passes the Israel and Hamas Impunity Act,” Providence Journal, November 11, 2009.

“The Goldstone Report is Painful Reading: Israel Should Investigate the Charges,” Jewish Voice and Herald, October 30, 2009.

“Can Sanctions Work Against Iran?” Room for Debate, New York Times, September 25, 2009. “No Nukes: Possibility or Pipe Dream?” Room for Debate, New York Times, June 7, 2009. Earlier “A Bad Idea in Vietnam, an Even Worse Idea Today,” Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2003,

with Peter Hayes. “An Act of War or a Crime Against Humanity?” Brown News Service, September 28, 2001,

with P. Terrence Hopmann. “The Defense that Does Not Defend,” Providence Journal, June 3, 2000.

“Missile Defense a White Elephant,” Providence Journal, March 25, 1999. “Save the UN Monitoring System in Iraq,” Providence Sunday Journal, November 15, 1998. “One Step Backward, Nukewise,” Providence Journal, December 15, 1997. “Women and Self-Determination,” Boulder Daily Camera, September 1994.

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INTERVIEWS AND DOCUMENTARIES

Published

“Obama’s Visit to Hiroshima,” interview, Mainichi newspaper (Japan), May 2016. Translated into Japanese.

“The Nuclear Taboo: An Interview with Nina Tannenwald,” Sokka Gakkai International

Quarterly [a Buddhist Forum for Peace, Culture and Education], No. 62 (October 2010), pp. 8-9.

“Interview with Nina Tannenwald,” Newspaper of the Japanese Association for a Non-

Nuclear Government (2008) [in Japanese]. Appearances in Film Documentaries “On Deterrence” (2017), directed by Dan Curry, produced by Sandia National Laboratories. “Nuclear South Asia: A Guide to India, Pakistan, and the Bomb” (Stimson Center 2017).

Directed by Travis Wheeler and Shane Mason. WORK IN PROGRESS

“Individual Accountability, Targeted Killings and the Illiberal Permissive Effects of the Responsibility to Protect,” Project on the Individualization of War.

“The Campaign on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons: Implications for U.S. Nonproliferation Policy,” commissioned for a project directed by Scott Sagan under contract to the Defense Department, February 2017.

INVITED LECTURES AND PRESENTATIONS

“Our Uncertain Future: How Do We Proceed if Treaties Are Trashed?” Stimson Center,

Washington, DC, December 12, 2018.

Panelist, “Do Nuclear Weapons Matter?” Council on Foreign Relations, New York, December 3, 2018

Panelist, Workshop on Extended Deterrence, Assurance, Nonproliferation and Disarmament

Los Alamos National Laboratory/Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, November 30, 2018.

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Panelist, “The North Korea Crisis,” Harvard and Brown Clubs of Rhode Island, November 8, 2018.

Guest Lecture, “The Status of the Nuclear Taboo,” Korbel School, University of Denver, October 21, 2018.

“The Humanitarian Campaign Against Nuclear Weapons: A Critical Appreciation,”

keynote lecture, conference on “Non-Nuclear Peace,” University of Antwerp, May 25, 2018.

“The Nuclear Taboo in the Era of Trump and the Nuclear Ban Treaty,” Seminar speaker,

Program on Science and Global Security, Princeton University, May 2, 2018. Panelist, “International Humanitarian Law and Attacks on Aid Workers,” Civilian-Military

Humanitarian Response Workshop, Brown University/Naval War College, August 25- 26, 2017.

“The Nuclear Ban Treaty and the Nuclear Taboo in the Era of Trump,” Asahi Shimbun

Symposium, Hiroshima, Japan, July 29, 2017.

“Targeted Killing: The Decline of the Norm Against Assassination?” Security Seminar, School of Global and International Studies, Indiana University, November 11, 2016.

“The War on Terror in Yemen and Beyond: Legal and Ethical Implications,” Watson

Institute, October 26, 2016.

Panelist, “Conference: World Order and Peace” (festschrift for Harald Mueller), Frankfurt Peace Research Institute, October 13-14, 2016.

“The Great Unraveling: The Future of the Nuclear Normative Order,” presented at a

workshop on “New Work on the Nuclear Taboo,” University of Virginia, May 2, 2016 and at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, September 19, 2016.

“Ethics and Nuclear Weapons,” presentation at a conference on The Role of Ethics in

International Affairs,” American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Bellagio, Italy. February 21-26, 2016.

Invited presentation, workshop on “Understanding the New Nuclear Age,” American

Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, June 19, 2015.

Discussant, panel on Beliefs, Learning and Norms, conference of the Nuclear Studies Research Initiative, Arlie House, Virginia, May 5, 2015.

“Targeted Killing: The Decline of the Norm Against Assassination?” paper presented at:

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----Northwestern University, April 5, 2014 ----the International Studies Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, February 21,

2015 ----Cornell Law School, April 12, 2015 ----Frankfurt Peace Research Institute, December 3, 2015

----University of Virginia, May 3, 2016

Panelist, Teach-in on Gaza, sponsored by Middle East Studies, Brown, September 5, 2014.

“Discussant, “Social Movements in Climate Change and Arms Control,” panel at a conference on “Nuclear Arms Control and Climate Change Negotiations: Shared Lessons and Possibilities,” University of Texas at Austin, January 16-17, 2014.

Panelist, conference on “Syria from the Ground Up,” Middle East Studies, Brown, November

8, 3013. “Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons: The Normative Strategy for Disarmament,” presentation at a conference on “The Prague Agenda in 2013: Challenges and Prospects,” sponsored by the Czech Foreign Ministry and the Czech Institute of International Relations, Prague, September 5-6, 2013. “Can War Have Rules? Military Technology and Human Rights,” lecture for One Day

University, New York, NY, April 21, 2013.

Moderator, “Humanitarian Dimensions of Nuclear War, Deterrence, and Disarmament,” Panel at the 2013 Carnegie International Nuclear Policy Conference, Washington, DC, April 8, 2013.

Participant, roundtable on the 2013 International Security Studies Association Distinguished

Scholar Award, honoring Scott Sagan, annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 5, 2013.

“Thinking Critically About Nonproliferation,” Guest lecture, Foreign Service Institute,

Washington DC, February 13, 2013.

Keynote panelist, “Nuclear Use and Non-Use,” panel honoring Scott Sagan, Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University, October 24, 2011.

Wrap-up speaker, “Prevention Regimes and Strategies Workshop,” Naval Postgraduate

School, Monterey, CA, August 15-17, 2011.

“Targeted Killings and the War on Terror: The Decline of the Norms Against Assassination?” Paper presented at seminars at Berkeley (December 2009), the University of Washington (December 2009), McGill University (November 2008), and at a

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conference on “Beyond the Geneva Conventions” at the Frankfurt Peace Research Institute (October 2008).

“The Laws of War,” panelist at Houser Interdisciplinary Colloquium, New York University

Law School, November 13, 2009.

“Research Design and Process-tracing: The Example of The Nuclear Taboo,” lecture at the Qualitative and Multi-methods Summer Institute, Syracuse, NY, June 8, 2009.

“The Nuclear Taboo,” public lecture upon receiving the Lepgold Award, Georgetown

University, April 16, 2009.

“Targeted Killings,” JANUS forum, Brown, April 7, 2009.

“The Utility of Rules,” panelist, conference on Reconsidering the Rules of Space Security, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA, September 26, 2007.

“Policy Options for Dealing with Darfur,” Cornell Darfur Week, April 10, 2007.

“A New Nuclear Era? The Collapse of the Nonproliferation Regime,” panelist, Yale Center

for the Study of Globalization, with Javad Zarif, Iranian ambassador to the UN, Carla Robbins, Wall Street Journal, and Joseph Cirincione, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, April 4, 2006.

“The Nuclear Taboo and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime,” Carnegie Endowment

International Nonproliferation Conference, Washington, DC, November 7, 2005.

“Delegitimizing the Bomb: The Domestic and International Origins of the Nuclear Taboo,” paper presented at:

- Dartmouth College, January 2001 - Olin Seminar, Harvard University, May 2002 - Program in International Security Policy Seminar, University of Chicago, April 2002 - Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, September 2002

“The Nuclear Century,” panel, Brown University, October 13, 2001. In honor of President

Ruth Simmons’ inauguration. “Ethical and Normative Issues in Responding to September 11,” Watson Institute campus

forum on the September 11 attacks, September 18, 2001.

“Reconsidering Nuclear Deterrence,” panel on “U.S. Arms Control Policy in the 21st Century” at the Cosmos Club, Washington, DC, May 11, 2001.

“International Norms and Weapons,” Watson Institute Seminar series, April 8, 2001.

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“The Future of Collective Security Ten Years After the end of the Cold War,” keynote speech

to the annual meeting of the Cape Cod United Nations Association, February 6, 1999.

“What Role for the Use of Force in the New World Order?” World Federalists of Cape Cod, November 7, 1998.

“Nuclear Weapons and World Order: The Debate Over the Nuclear Revolution,” University

of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1997.

“The Nuclear Taboo: The Normative Basis of Nuclear Non-Use,” paper presented at: - Watson Institute, Brown, November 1995. - Olin Seminar, Harvard, March 1996. - University of California, Irvine, May 1996. - Yale University, December 1996. - Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, November 1997.

CONFERENCE PAPERS

“Individual Accountability, Targeted Killings and the Illiberal Permissive Effects of the Responsibility to Protect,” Conference on the Individualization of War, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, June 2018

“The Nuclear Taboo and the 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty: A Case of Contested Codification,”

invited paper presented at a conference on “The Transformation of International Law,” Free University, Berlin, Germany, November 23-25, 2017.

“Early U.S. Thinking About Regulatory Regimes,” Tobin Project conference on “Reassessing

Threat Assessment in the Early Nuclear Era,” Cambridge, MA, October 20-21, 2017.

“The Legacy of the Nuclear Taboo Since the End of the Cold War,” paper invited for the Conference on Nuclear Legacies, Hiroshima, Japan, August 2-4, 2017, and Princeton University, October 1-2, 2015.

“The Campaign on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons: Implications for U.S.

Nonproliferation Policy,” presented at the conference on The Humanitarian Impact Campaign and U.S. Policy, Stanford University, February 10-11, 2017.

“The Emerging Norm of Targeted Killing and the Politics of Contestation,” part of a project on

Contesting Norms: Unpacking the Dynamics of Norm Robustness, University of Frankfurt, December 9, 2016.

“Norms and Public Opinion on Nuclear Use,” paper prepared for a conference and edited book

project on Nuclear Norms, Monterey Institute of International Studies, March 21-13,

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2014. “Justice, Fairness and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime,” paper presented at a conference

on “Just Peace Governance,” Frankfurt Peace Research Institute, Germany, June 19- 20, 2009.

“Multilevel Governance in Nuclear Nonproliferation,” paper presented at After Empire,

conference on Global Governance, at Brown, June 12-13, 2008. “Targeted Killings and the War on Terror: Is the Norm Against Assassination in Decline?”

paper presented at the annual ISODARCO seminar, Andalo, Italy, January 6-13, 2008.

“Normative and Institutional Constraints on Nuclear Proliferation,” paper presented at the Wye Conference on Advanced Methods of Cooperative Security, Wye, MD, June 2004.

“Assessing the Geneva Conventions as an International Regime,” paper presented at the

annual meeting of the International Studies Association, Montreal, March 2004. “The UN and Debates Over Weapons of Mass Destruction,” paper presented at the

conference, “The UN and Global Security,” University of British Columbia, January 2003.

“Law Versus Power on the High Frontier,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the

International Studies Association, Vancouver, March 2003. “Law vs Power on the High Frontier: The Case for a Rule-Based Regime for Outer Space,”

paper presented at the “Advanced Methods of Cooperative Security” seminar, Center for International and Security Studies, University of Maryland, November 2002.

“Social Science Explanations for Ethical Norms,” paper presented at the Faculty Development

Workshop on Ethics and International Affairs, sponsored by the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs, June 11, 2002.

“Ideas and Causal Mechanisms,” paper presented at the annual meeting of the International

Studies Association, New Orleans, March 2002.

“The Role of Ideas,” paper presented at an authors’ conference on “The Role of Ideas and the End of the Cold War,” Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown, April 15-16, 2000, and at a second authors’ conference at the Dickey Center, Dartmouth College, June 18-19, 2001.

“The Origins of the Nuclear Taboo,” paper presented at the Conference on the Origins of

Norms in International Politics and Possible Applications,” Center for International

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Relations, University of California, Los Angeles, October 1-3, 1999.

The Role of Ideas and the End of the Cold War: The Non-Use of Force and the Demise of the Soviet Empire,” paper presented at a conference on “Understanding the End of the Cold War,” Mershon Center, Ohio State University, September 1997, and at the Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference, Columbia University, April 1998.

“The Nuclear and Chemical Weapons Taboos,” paper presented at a conference on "Norms

and National Security,” Stanford University, October 1994. University of Minnesota, January 1994, Cornell University, February 1993. Co-author Richard Price.

“Dogs that Don’t Bark: The United States and the Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons,” paper

presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, 1993. "The Interaction of Domestic and International Politics," paper presented at the Stanford

MacArthur Conference on Peace and Conflict, Stanford, January 1992. Other Conference Participation Participant, workshop on the legality and morality of nuclear weapons, Livermore National

Laboratory, Washington, DC, November 2, 2018. Chair, panel on “Nuclear Weapons and International Politics: New Theories and Historical

Evidence,” American Political Science Association annual meeting, Boston, September 1, 2018

Chair, panel on “Norms and Nuclear Weapons,” American Political Science Association

annual meeting, Boston, September 2, 2018

Roundtable participant on Matthew Fuhrmann and Todd Sechser, Nuclear Weapons and Coercive Diplomacy, International Studies Association Annual Meeting, San Francisco, April 6, 2018.

Participant, workshop on “The President and the Bomb,” Stevens Institute of Technology,

Hoboken, NJ, March 17, 2018. Discussant, “Nuclear Weapons and International Politics: New Theories and Evidence,”

APSA Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, August 28-31, 2013. Roundtable participant, “Global Norms,” International Studies Association annual meeting,

Montreal, March 17, 2011. Panelist, Tufts EPIIC Conference on “Our Nuclear Age: Peril and Promise.” February 25,

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2011. Chair, panel on Iran, RAND-AEEI conference on US-Israel relations, Washington, DC, May

13-14, 2010.

Discussant, book launch panel, Constructing the International Political Economy, Brown, April 20, 2010.

Organizer and discussant, book launch panel on “Getting to Zero: The Challenges of Nuclear

Disarmament,” International Studies Association annual meeting, New Orleans, February 19, 2010.

Panelist, Brown campus forum on the UN’s Goldstone Report on Gaza, November 17, 2009.

Moderator for campus speech by former president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, sponsored

by the Brown Student Lecture Board, September 22, 2009. Discussant, roundtable on T.V. Paul, The Tradition of Nuclear Non-Use, annual meeting of the

American Political Science Association, Toronto, September 5, 2009. Moderator and organizer, campus forum on “Georgia and Kosovo: A New Cold War?”

September 29, 2008, Watson Institute. Discussant, conference on “The UN and the Nuclear Challenge,” sponsored by the Frederich

Ebert Stiftung and the Ralph Bunch Institute, CUNY, New York, May 2008. Chair and discussant, panel on “International Law and Institutions,” New England Political

Science Association annual meeting, Providence, April 26, 2008. Invited participant, workshop on “Should the US adopt a No First Use Nuclear Policy?”

Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, April 4, 2008. Roundtable on my book, The Nuclear Taboo, with five participants, annual meeting of the

International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008.

Chair, panel on “The Social Construction of Threats,” annual meeting of the International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 2008.

Organizer and chair, roundtable on Audie Klotz and Cecelia Lynch, Strategies for Research in

Constructivist International Relations, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 2007.

Discussant, “Interpretation and the Interpreter,” annual meeting of the American Political

Science Association, Philadelphia, September 2006.

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Chair, “International Norms and Regional Security: Perspectives from the South,” annual

meeting of the International Studies Association, San Diego, March 2006. Discussant, “Norms and National Security,” panel, annual association of the International

Studies Association, San Diego, March 2006. Chair, “The Use and Abuse of Force,” panel at conference on “Beyond Terror: A New Global

Security Agenda,” Watson Institute for International Studies, June 2005. Discussant at workshop on David Holloway’s nuclear history manuscript, Peace Studies

Program, Cornell, November 2004.

Discussant, “Private Authority Workshop,” Watson Institute for International Studies, April 2000.

Chair, “How Norms Matter: Norms and Identity in the State System,” panel at the annual

meeting of the American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 2, 1999.

Working group chair, “Global Threats to National Security,” The U.S. Military Academy’s 51st Annual Student Conference on United States Affairs, West Point, NY. November 10-13, 1999.

Invited participant, Conference on “Delegating Sovereignty: Constitutional and Legal Implications of U.S. Participation in Treaty Regimes,” Prof. Thomas Franck, organizer, NYU Law School, February 25-27, 1999.

CONFERENCES ORGANIZED

“Human Rights at War: The Geneva Conventions in Comparative Perspective,” final authors’ conference, Watson Institute, June 11-12, 2010.

“Beyond the Geneva Conventions,” conference at the Frankfurt Peace Research Institute,

October 2008. Co-organized with Klaus-Dieter Wolf.

“Human Rights at War: The Geneva Conventions in Comparative Perspective,” authors’ conference, Cornell University, November 9-10, 2007. Organized with Matthew Evangelista.

“The Role of Ideas and the End of the Cold War,” authors’ conference, Dickey Center,

Dartmouth College, June 18-19, 2001.

“The Role of Ideas and the End of the Cold War,” authors’ conference, Watson Institute, Brown, April 15-16, 2000.

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“Understanding the End of the Cold War, 1980-87,” oral history conference, May 7-10, 1998, Watson Institute, Brown. Served as managing director for a joint oral history conference project of the Watson Institute, The Mershon Center, Ohio State

University, the University of Munich, the National Security Archive, and the Cold War International History Project, 1997-2001.

GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Stanton Nuclear Security Course Development Grant ($50,000), 2015, with Nicholas Miller. Dean of the College Course Development funds ($1500), 2014. Carnegie Corporation Scholar, 2001-2003. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant, 2000-2001. Carnegie Corporation Grant for $113,000 for “Understanding the End of the Cold War,”

Co-PI with Thomas Biersteker and P. Terrence Hopmann, 1998. TRAINING AND WORKSHOPS “Teaching Grand Strategy,” invited workshop participant, Strategy and Policy Department,

Naval War College, Newport, RI, August 2014. “Bridging the Gap: International Policy Summer Institute,” week long seminar at the School

for International Service, American University, on bridging the gap between scholars of international relations and the foreign policy world. June 9-13, 2013.

Academic Exchange Trip to Israel, ten-day trip for international relations scholars sponsored by Academic Exchange, the RAND Corporation, the Yitzak Rabin Center (Israel) and

the Milken Institute. June 2009. “Ethical Issues in the Use of Military Power,” weeklong seminar sponsored by the Carnegie

Council on Ethics and International Affairs and the U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD, June 4-9, 2000.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Undergraduate courses taught:

Introduction to International Relations International Organization and World Politics International Law International Security After the Cold War The Transformation of the International System;

Globalization and Culture

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The International Law and Politics of Human Rights War and Human Rights Global Governance Nuclear Weapons and International Politics Graduate Seminars:

Pro-Seminar in International Relations Theory Theories of International Institutions Constructivism and International Relations Other Teaching:

Instructor, International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO), Andalo, Italy, January 2008; January 2019

Instructor, Nuclear Boot Camp, University of San Diego, August 2018. Guest lecturer, “WMD and International Security,” graduate seminar, Woodrow Wilson

School, Princeton University, May 2, 2018. Guest lecturer, “International Security,” senior seminar, University of Virginia, May 3,

2016. Instructor, Brown International Advanced Research Institute (BIARI) on Humanitarian

Response, Summers 2014-2017. One Day University, “Can War Have Rules? Military Technology and Human Rights,”

April 21, 2013. Instructor, “Challenges Facing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime,” Choices

Workshop for High School Teachers, Watson Institute, July 8, 2009. Instructor, “Iran’s Nuclear Challenge,” Choices Workshop for High School Teachers,

Brown, April 11, 2008 and July 2, 2008. Instructor, “The Future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime,” Choices Workshop

for High School Teachers, Brown, July 25, 2007. Instructor, Institute for Qualitative Research Methods, Arizona State University, January 2003, 2004.

Senior honors theses advised: 68 since 1997.

Nominee for Hazeltine Teaching Citation, Brown University, May 2008. Teaching Award, from the University of Colorado International Affairs Club (1995). International Relations Concentration Coordinator, Cornell University, 1988-89.

Administered and served as advisor for undergraduate interdisciplinary program of 225 students.

Teaching Assistant - for Professor Joseph Nye (Harvard), International Conflicts in the

Modern World, Spring 1991; Professor Isaac Kramnick (Cornell), Political Theory,

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Spring 1989; Professor Peter Katzenstein (Cornell), Head TA, Introduction to International Relations, Fall 1989.

DEPARTMENT SERVICE Political Science Department:

Graduate Admissions Committee, 2018-2019 Political Science-Watson Nuclear Search Committee 2017 IBES Environmental Politics Search Committee, 2016-2017 Graduate Admissions Committee, 2015-2016 International Relations search committee (joint with Watson), 2014-2015 International Relations subfield coordinator, 2013-2014. International Relations search committee, Fall 2011. Ph.D Comprehensive exam committee, International Relations: September 2017; September

2015; May 2014, 2012, December 2011. Watson Institute:

Director, International Relations Program, 2014- Global Security track adviser, International Relations Concentration, 1999-2000; 2007-2010;

2014- Political Science-Watson Nuclear Search Committee 2017

International Relations Search Committee (joint with Political Science), 2014-2015. International Security Search Committee, Fall 2013.

Diplomatic Studies Search Committee, Fall 2010. Post-doctoral Search Committee, Spring 2010. Committee on Undergraduate Teaching, Watson Institute, Fall 2008. Co-author, The Watson Institute: Research, Teaching, and the International Relations and Development Studies Concentrations (report, January 2009). International Relations Search Committee, Watson-Political Science Department, Fall 2007 Director, International Relations Program, 2003-2006. Watson Institute Appointments Committee, 2003 –2006 Watson Institute Directors’ Committee, 2003 – 2006 Selection Committee, Ralph Bunche UN Internship, 2003-2006 Selection Committee, Jack Ringer Internships in Southeast Asia, 2003-2006 Watson Institute Graduate Training Committee, 2001-2002. Selection Committee, Richard Smoke Summer internships, 2001-2006 Watson Institute Strategic Planning Committee, 2001. Consultant, Choices for the 21st Century Education Program, 2000- Initiator, year-long “Director’s Seminar” on “Self-Determination in International Politics,”

1999-2000. Co-director, film series on “Ethnicity in Contemporary World Cinema,”1998-2000.

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UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Ogden Lectureship Committee, 2016 - Budget Deficit Committee, chaired by Richard Locke and Ravi Pendse, 2014-2015. University Resources Committee, April 2013 – April 2015. Advisory Group, “B Literate: Religion,” Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life, 2011-

Member, Dean of the College’s Committee on International Studies (to review the IR and Development Studies concentrations), Fall 2010. Brown University Hillel Israel Advisory Committee, 2010-2013 Faculty Advisor to Brown Model UN, 2002- Advisory Board member, Brown Journal of World Affairs, 2001-

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Junior faculty book manuscript review committee, Political Science Department, University of

Minnesota (author: Mark Bell), November 2017.

Chair, Peter Katzenstein Book Award, Cornell University, 2014. External Ph.D. thesis reviewer, Institute of Political Science, Goethe University, Frankfurt

Germany, June 2013. Nominating Committee, Consortium for Qualitative and Multi-methods, 2011-2012.

Council member, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies

Association, 2007-2010.

Committee member, Distinguished Scholar Award, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association, 2009.

Chair, awards committee, Best Paper in International Relations, Midwest Political Science

Association, 2007. Academic Advisory Board, Frankfurt Peace Research Institute, Germany, 2006-2012.

Vice President, Qualitative Methods Section, American Political Science Association,

2005-2007. Committee member, Sartori Book Award (best book on qualitative methods), APSA Section

on Qualitative Methods, 2004. Short-course instructor on “Teaching Nonproliferation” (with Scott Sagan and William

Potter), annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, September 2004.

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Program Co-Chair, Qualitative Methods Section, annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Chicago, 2004.

Advisory group member and contributing author, “Advanced Methods of Cooperative

Security,” a MacArthur Foundation-supported research project of the Center for International Security Studies at the University of Maryland, John Steinbruner director. 2001-2005.

Advisory Board member, Consortium on Qualitative Research Methods, 2000-2005.

Rapporteur, Brookings Institution/World Resources Institute/Santa Fe Institute Conference on Sustainability, Santa Fe, 14-28 July 1991.

Rapporteur, Columbia University Faculty Seminar on the Problems of Peace, 1985-86

(chaired by Professor Oscar Schachter, Columbia Law School). Peer reviewer: International Organization, International Security, International Studies

Quarterly , International Studies Review, American Political Science Review, European Journal of International Relations, The Nonproliferation Review, Millennium, Review of International Studies; Security Studies,Comparative Security Policy; Journal of Cold War Studies; American Journal of Sociology; MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grants, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Israel Science Foundation; University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award; and for publishers (St. Martin’s, Longman’s, Norton, Cambridge, Routledge, etc.)

COMMUNITY SERVICE

“Is the Two-State Solution Dead?” Temple Tifereth-Israel, New Bedford, MA. January 29,

2012.

“Iran’s Nuclear Challenge,” Rocky Hill School Senior Seminar, East Greenwich, RI, January 14, 2009.

“Nonproliferation Challenges Facing the Next President,” Rotary Club, Greenwich, CT,

September 17, 2008. “Iran’s Nuclear Challenge,” Democratic Club, Greenwich, CT, September 16, 2008.

“The Future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime,” Rocky Hill School Senior Seminar,

East Greenwich, RI, February 5, 2008.

“Iran’s Nuclear Challenge,” Temple Emanuel, Providence, RI, October 28, 2007.

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Rhode Island Capitol Forum, presentation to high school teachers on nonproliferation, January 2006.

“Will the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime Survive?” Citizens for Global Solutions,

Falmouth, MA, January 2006.

Scholar-in-Residence, Moses Brown School, Providence, RI, 2005-2006. Commentator on radio (local and BBC World Service) and local TV on current security and

nuclear weapons issues. OTHER

Languages: French – working knowledge; German – functional. 2011 Champion, Dancing with the Professors, Brown Ballroom Dance Club