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Alexander H. Montgomery

Former Fellow

    Term

    September 16, 2013 — May 23, 2014

    Professional affiliation

    Associate Professor of Political Science, Reed College

    Wilson Center Projects

    "Atomic Misconceptions: Why Common Assumptions about Nuclear Weapons are not only Wrong, but Dangerous"

    Full Biography

    Alexander H. Montgomery is an associate professor of Political Science at Reed College. He has published articles on dismantling proliferation networks and on the effects of social networks of international organizations on interstate conflict. His research interests include political organizations, social networks, weapons of mass disruption and destruction, social studies of technology, and interstate social relations. He has been a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in Nuclear Security; a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center at the Kennedy School of Government; and a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford University. He has a B.A. in Physics from the University of Chicago, an M.A. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and an M.A. in Sociology and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford University.

    Major Publications

    • "Misestimation: Explaining US Failures to Predict Nuclear Weapons Programs" (with Adam J. Mount), Intelligence and National Security, forthcoming Summer 2014.
    • "Stop Helping Me: When Nuclear Assistance Impedes Nuclear Programs", chapter 7 in The Nuclear Renaissance and International Security, ed. Adam Stulberg and Matt Fuhrmann, Stanford University Press, 2013.
    • "War, Trade, and Distrust: Why Trade Agreements Don’t Always Keep the Peace", Conflict Management and Peace Science 29, no.3 (Jul 2012): 257–278.