PEOPLE

Miranda Priebe is a doctoral candidate in the department of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an affiliate of the Security Studies Program. Her dissertation examines how mixing cooperative and competitive policies affects the perceptions and goals of rising powers. 

Robert Reardon's research focuses on the use of coercion and positive inducements in nuclear nonproliferation policy. He also works on the effects of the innovation and diffusion of dual-use technologies on international security. Dr. Reardon holds a Ph.D. in political science from MIT.

Terence Roehrig's research focuses on the U.S. nuclear umbrella for Japan and South Korea and extended deterrence. He is Professor of National Security Affairs and the Director of the Asia-Pacific Studies Group at the U.S. Naval War College.

Mansour Salsabili is an Iranian scholar and former diplomat who participated in different aspects of the work of the United Nations (UN) in New York from UN reforms to the Non-Aligned Movement and also was a disarmament expert dealing with the Conference on Disarmament at the European office of the UN in Geneva.

Anja Sletteland's research deals with how ideas about the world attain influence in the society. In her dissertation, she focuses on American narratives of the alliance between the United States and Israel. The project explores how diverging narratives play out in and shape the political discourse.

Ian Stewart is a nuclear technologies and proliferation specialist who comes to the centre from the "Project on Proliferation Procurement and Anti-Proliferation in the Private Sector" which is based at King's College, London. This project aims to identify new ways to prevent proliferation-related trade from supporting WMD programs of concern.

Annie Tracy Samuel is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Tel Aviv University (TAU) and a junior research fellow at TAU's Center for Iranian Studies. Her doctoral dissertation examines the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Iran-Iraq War and analyzes how the Guards have documented the war and their roles in the conflict.

Daniel Volmar is a graduate student in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. His general interest is in American physical science during the twentieth century and its relations to industry and government. He holds a B.A. in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Matt Waldman practiced as an international lawyer based in London, after which he served as a foreign affairs and defense advisor in the UK and European Parliaments. He has worked on Afghanistan and the region since 2005, most recently as a senior UN official in Kabul covering conflict resolution and reconciliation with the Taliban.

Wilfred Wan's research interests include institutional change, international institutions (particularly in security), nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament, and IR theory. He has a Ph.D. from the University of California, Irvine.