Book: Nuclear Decisions, available at @OxUniPress. Associate Professor of Government. IR, nonproliferation, foreign policy. On 🟦 as llkoch
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I am honored and thrilled that Nuclear Decisions has been named the co-winner of the Robert Jervis Best International Security Book Award for 2023. It's deeply meaningful to me to receive an award named for the late Robert Jervis.
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
New publication: "Four Days in May: The India-Pakistan Crisis of 2025" up now at the Stimson Center @StimsonCenter . Executive summary here, but link to all 12,000 words and 123 footnotes in the next post.
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
I’m excited to share a new publication co-authored with @lachlanmckn on how Russian technological assistance to North Korea could potentially bolster the development of its nuclear program.
Read here👇
Russia’s growing technological assistance has the potential to bolster North Korea’s development of ICBMs and SLBMs, nuclear-powered submarines, and low yield nuclear weapons.
buff.ly/qK0qcTa
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
This talk was 🔥. Can’t wait for the book.
Thank you @Koch_LL for sharing your research with us on nuclear threats.
In our latest Wednesday Seminar, Lisa asks, “When leaders issue nuclear threats, how are those threats perceived?” She continues to talk about the spectrum of credibility on which these threats may fall and the reactions they inspire.
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
Thank you @Koch_LL for sharing your research with us on nuclear threats.
In our latest Wednesday Seminar, Lisa asks, “When leaders issue nuclear threats, how are those threats perceived?” She continues to talk about the spectrum of credibility on which these threats may fall and the reactions they inspire.
On the anniversary of Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace speech, I recommend reading this excellent, recent special issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies.
muse.jhu.edu/issue/51175
(My review of the issue is below)
Article Review 1221: Paul R. Josephson, ed. “Atoms for Peace, Nuclear Technology, and the Cold War.”
“A must-read for anyone who is interested in the science, politics, and culture of nuclear development” – Lisa Langdon Koch
issforum.org/reviews/PDF/AR1…
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
Grateful for this very kind review of my book by @Hbounassif, whose own book deeply inspired mine:
"Solidly grounded in firsthand research, Grewal's work is also comparative and theoretically inclined... a welcome addition...and a must-read"
muse.jhu.edu/pub/119/article…
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
Fall issue is live! In my @IntSecHarvard article I argue that China's rise has shifted the international system back to bipolarity. (ungated article here): direct.mit.edu/isec/article/…
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
It's publication week! Influence Without Arms: The New Logic of Deterrence is now available with @CUP_PoliSci: cambridge.org/9781108824071. The book examines the role of nuclear technology in international relations.
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
Second, @Koch_LL compares national support for the #DeathPenalty in the United States with support for #Nuclear strikes against enemy countries, finding that core beliefs about blame and punishment can influence support for the use of force.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
BREAKING NEWS
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again.
#NobelPrize
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
Delighted to see my @politybooks Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century translated into the Korean language. The hard copy looks great!
Link: hanulmplus.kr/tot_book/conte…
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
Article Review 1221: Paul R. Josephson, ed. “Atoms for Peace, Nuclear Technology, and the Cold War.”
“A must-read for anyone who is interested in the science, politics, and culture of nuclear development” – Lisa Langdon Koch
issforum.org/reviews/PDF/AR1…
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
I’m very happy to announce my next book: ‘THE NEW NUCLEAR AGE’ (@politybooks). The book surveys the many growing sources of nuclear anxiety around the world and identifies pathways to managing these risks.
Pre-order here: amazon.com/New-Nuclear-Age-P…
@carnegienpp @CarnegieEndow
Nuclear Decisions was featured in Books of Note, in the July/Aug issue of Arms Control Today. As a longtime reader of this journal, I am absolutely delighted. @ArmsControlNow
What an honor to receive the Robert Jervis Best International Security Book Award alongside co-winner @sh_grewal, and to be presented the award by Sumit Ganguly. My thanks to the APSA International Security section Jervis Award committee members for their service.
Evidence of APSA’s effect on Philadelphia this week:
Me, waiting in line, chatting with National Park Service ranger: I have wanted to visit Independence Hall for a really long time!!
Ranger: Are you a political scientist?
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
If you're at #APSA24 and willing to wake up at 8 AM tomorrow (🫠) stop by Marriott 309 and come see me present this exciting new project on democratic accountability!
osf.io/preprints/osf/3du8x
Do politicians who engage in undemocratic practices face democratic accountability? Yes...sometimes
We find that U.S. state legislators were *selectively* held accountable for their anti-election actions on and after January 6th
osf.io/preprints/osf/3du8x
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
Congratulations to my friend, Dr. Lisa Koch @Koch_LL! She’s received the Robert Jervis International Security book award. Check out Nuclear Decisions: Changing the Course of Nuclear Weapons Programs! No one size fits all to prevent spread of nuclear weapons @OUPAcademic
Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social retweeted
🚨New (free to access) article in the summer issue @IntSecHarvard
How does fatalism among leaders cause the outbreak of war?
direct.mit.edu/isec/article/…
