When do attempts to control emerging technologies of warfare through multilateral agreements produce hollow agreements? This article contends that prospects for multilateral restrictions on new weapons technologies depend on how
Dec 2022
Governing the Final Frontier: Risk Reduction in Outer Space
Space capabilities are critical to the global economy, military power, and daily life. For example, the United States’ Global Positioning System enables everything from withdrawing cash from ATM machines to
Aug 2022
Regulating Destruction: The Politics of Multilateral Weapons Governance
This dissertation examines why and how states pursue multilateral agreements to govern weapons, and how their purpose in doing so shapes the process and outcome of agreements. Weapons governance is
Jul 2021
Chinese views on nuclear weapons: Evidence from an online survey
What are Chinese public attitudes regarding nuclear weapons? Although scholars have studied Chinese elites’ views on nuclear weapons, surprisingly little is known about the views of China’s public. To understand
