CMP Public Lecture: Why Do Some States Seek Nuclear Weapons?

Professor Etel Solingen is Chancellor's Professor at the University of California, Irvine and 2012-2013 President of the International Studies Association. Her book Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East received the APSA’s Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award for Best Book in the discipline and the APSA's Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Award for Best Book on International History and Politics. She was Chair of the Steering Committee of the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, member of the APSA’s presidential Taskforce on U.S. Standing in World Affairs, and the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Award on Peace and International Cooperation, a Social Science Research Council-Mac Arthur Foundation Fellowship on Peace and Security in a Changing World, a Japan Foundation/SSRC Abe Fellowship, a Center for Global Partnership/Japan Foundation fellowship, and others. She also published Regional Orders at Century's Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy; Industrial Policy, Technology, and International Bargaining; Sanctions, Statecraft, and Nuclear Proliferation, and many articles in leading journals. Solingen was Review Essay Editor for International Organization and has participated in conflict resolution diplomatic tracks across the Middle East, East Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and Latin America.