PSI Hosts Colloquium on Nuclear Politics and Strategy
The Policy and Security Initiative (PSI) at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University hosted a November 30, 2018 colloquium featuring an afternoon of expert panels on nuclear politics and strategy.
PSI Co-Directors Jayita Sarkar, Pardee School Assistant Professor of International Relations, and Joshua Shifrinson, Pardee School Assistant Professor of International Relations, delivered welcome remarks and introduced the initiative including plans for a
The first panel of the colloquium, entitled “The Dynamics of Nuclear Proliferation,” featured Etel Solingen, Thomas T. and Elizabeth C. Tierney Chair in Peace Studies at UC Irvine; Galen Jackson, Assistant Professor of Political Science at Williams College; and Sarkar. The panel was chaired by Erik Goldstein, Professor of International Relations and History at the Pardee School.
The colloquium continued with a panel entitled “Nuclear Strategy and Use: What We Now Know,” featuring Benjamin Valentino, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College; and Daryl Press, Associate Professor of Government at Dartmouth College. The panel was chaired by Shifrinson.
Steven E. Miller, Director of the International Security Program and Editor-in-Chief of the quarterly journal International Security at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, delivered the keynote talk at the colloquium.
The Pardee School Policy and Security Initiative, funded by the Pardee School and the Charles Koch Foundation, brings together students, faculty, outside experts, and policymakers to strengthen Boston University’s research, education, training and curriculum development on pressing issues of international and national security. Building on the Pardee School’s rich tradition in international security and diplomatic history and its specific mission to advance human progress, PSI aims to become a powerhouse of research, teaching and professional training in security. In addition to hosting regular colloquia and workshops with top scholars and practitioners to discuss the changing security landscape and the ways in which scholarship can inform policy, PSI also offers faculty and student seed grants for independent research on international security issues. Learn more here.