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Lauren Sukin

John G Winant Associate Professorship of US Foreign Policy, with Nuffield College
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International Relations Network
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Nuffield College
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Nuffield College, J4

Lauren Sukin is the John G. Winant Associate Professor in US Foreign Policy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford as well as a Professorial Fellow in Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. Dr Sukin’s research examines historical and contemporary challenges in international security, focusing particularly on the role of technology–including nuclear weapons–in alliances.

Her research explores military strategy, deterrence and reassurance, crisis politics, cybersecurity, and security challenges in Europe and Asia. Dr Sukin is an Affiliate at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation, a Nonresident Scholar in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and a Research Fellow at Charles University’s Peace Research Center Prague. She holds a PhD and MA from the Department of Political Science at Stanford University and ABs in political science and literary arts from Brown University.