Paul C Avey
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1598511 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Paul C Avey |
| NOMBRES | Paul C |
| APELLIDO | Avey |
| FIRMA | AVEY P C |
| AFILIACIONES | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 86 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2012 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Latent and Weaponized Nuclear Coercion
How does the potential to construct a nuclear weapon shape international politics? Matthew Fuhrmann's important new book explains why nuclear latent state efforts at deterrence by threats of proliferation, delayed retaliation, and doubts about their nuclear status succeed or fail. He finds that the level of enrichment capabilities, political stakes, and intentions shape the likelihood that each discrete deterrence pathway pays dividends or genera…
Grand Strategies of the Left
Does Social Science Inform Foreign Policy? Evidence from a Survey of US National Security, Trade, and Development Officials
Scholars continue to debate the relationship of academic international relations to policy. One of the most straightforward ways to discern whether policymakers find IR scholarship relevant to their work is to ask them. We analyzed an elite survey of US policy practitioners to better understand the conditions under which practitioners use academic knowledge in their work. We surveyed officials across three different policy areas: international de…
MAD and Taboo
This research note reports views on nuclear deterrence, coercion, and non-use norms from surveys of 320 current and former US national security officials and 1,303 US-based international relations scholars. It finds that both groups hold relatively optimistic views on these key issues. Majorities express confidence that nuclear weapons are useful for deterrence, but are skeptical that a nuclear arsenal can translate into coercive foreign policy s…
Narrowing the Academic-Policy Divide
THERE IS ENDURING INTEREST IN making political science more relevant to policymakers and the public.1 Most political scientists seeking to bridge the academic-policymaker gap believe that the main obstacle they face is a failure of communication. According to this view, a significant amount of the research they conduct is potentially relevant to policymakers, but scholars struggle to engage key audiences. In other words, the problem is with the p…
Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide in International Relations
The Historical Rarity of Foreign-Deployed Nuclear Weapon Crises
What are the strategic costs of foreign-deployed nuclear weapons? Thus far, scholars have focused primarily on the possible benefits: deterring adversaries and reassuring allies. There is little scholarship on the costs side of the cost–benefit equation. This article evaluates one potential cost: that deployments generate crises. I argue that such deployments have, historically, rarely resulted in crises because few deployments generate the level…
Do US Troop Withdrawals Cause Instability? Evidence from Two Exogenous Shocks on the Korean Peninsula
Does withdrawing forward-deployed US troops increase instability? This question is at the heart of current grand strategy debates, yet endogeneity issues make this very difficult to answer. Put simply, stability may cause the United States to withdraw forces and lead one to incorrectly infer that withdrawals do not lead to greater instability. We suggest a research design to help alleviate this endogeneity problem. By utilizing exogenous crises t…
To Kill Nations
Edward Kaplan seeks to explain “the rise and fall of air-atomic power in the early Cold War” (p. 6). He accomplishes this and more, providing a book that should be widely read by students of nuclear strategy. The broad elements of the story are familiar. Yet the devil is in the details; terms such as “massive retaliation” and “assured destruction” are used imprecisely by many scholars. Kaplan offers precision by mustering an impressive array of d…
Who's Afraid of the Bomb? The Role of Nuclear Non-Use Norms in Confrontations between Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Opponents
This article examines the role that nuclear non-use norms play in non-nuclear state decision making during confrontations with nuclear opponents. The claim that norms constrain nuclear use is one of the most important examples of norms influencing state security decisions. Many extend the claim to argue that non-nuclear weapon states realize norms constrain the nuclear opponent and therefore discount the possibility of nuclear strikes. To date th…
What Do Policymakers Want From Us? Results of a Survey of Current and Former Senior National Security Decision Makers
What do the most senior national security policymakers want from international relations scholars? To answer that question, we administered a unique survey to current and former policymakers to gauge when and how they use academic social science to inform national security decision making. We find that policymakers do regularly follow academic social science research and scholarship on national security affairs, hoping to draw upon its substantiv…
Confronting Soviet Power
Many self-identified realist, liberal, and constructivist scholars contend that ideology played a critical role in generating and shaping the United States' decision to confront the Soviet Union in the early Cold War. A close look at the history reveals that these ideological arguments fail to explain key aspects of U.S. policy. Contrary to ideological explanations, the United States initially sought to cooperate with the Soviet Union, did not in…
What Do Policymakers Want From Us? Results of a Survey of Current and Former Senior National Security Decision Makers
What do the most senior national security policymakers want from international relations scholars? To answer that question, we administered a unique survey to current and former policymakers to gauge when and how they use academic social science to inform national security decision making. We find that policymakers do regularly follow academic social science research and scholarship on national security affairs, hoping to draw upon its substantiv…
Does Social Science Inform Foreign Policy? Evidence from a Survey of US National Security, Trade, and Development Officials
Scholars continue to debate the relationship of academic international relations to policy. One of the most straightforward ways to discern whether policymakers find IR scholarship relevant to their work is to ask them. We analyzed an elite survey of US policy practitioners to better understand the conditions under which practitioners use academic knowledge in their work. We surveyed officials across three different policy areas: international de…
Who's Afraid of the Bomb? The Role of Nuclear Non-Use Norms in Confrontations between Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Opponents
This article examines the role that nuclear non-use norms play in non-nuclear state decision making during confrontations with nuclear opponents. The claim that norms constrain nuclear use is one of the most important examples of norms influencing state security decisions. Many extend the claim to argue that non-nuclear weapon states realize norms constrain the nuclear opponent and therefore discount the possibility of nuclear strikes. To date th…
MAD and Taboo
This research note reports views on nuclear deterrence, coercion, and non-use norms from surveys of 320 current and former US national security officials and 1,303 US-based international relations scholars. It finds that both groups hold relatively optimistic views on these key issues. Majorities express confidence that nuclear weapons are useful for deterrence, but are skeptical that a nuclear arsenal can translate into coercive foreign policy s…
Narrowing the Academic-Policy Divide
THERE IS ENDURING INTEREST IN making political science more relevant to policymakers and the public.1 Most political scientists seeking to bridge the academic-policymaker gap believe that the main obstacle they face is a failure of communication. According to this view, a significant amount of the research they conduct is potentially relevant to policymakers, but scholars struggle to engage key audiences. In other words, the problem is with the p…
The Historical Rarity of Foreign-Deployed Nuclear Weapon Crises
What are the strategic costs of foreign-deployed nuclear weapons? Thus far, scholars have focused primarily on the possible benefits: deterring adversaries and reassuring allies. There is little scholarship on the costs side of the cost–benefit equation. This article evaluates one potential cost: that deployments generate crises. I argue that such deployments have, historically, rarely resulted in crises because few deployments generate the level…
Confronting Soviet Power
Many self-identified realist, liberal, and constructivist scholars contend that ideology played a critical role in generating and shaping the United States' decision to confront the Soviet Union in the early Cold War. A close look at the history reveals that these ideological arguments fail to explain key aspects of U.S. policy. Contrary to ideological explanations, the United States initially sought to cooperate with the Soviet Union, did not in…
Confronting Soviet Power
Many self-identified realist, liberal, and constructivist scholars contend that ideology played a critical role in generating and shaping the United States' decision to confront the Soviet Union in the early Cold War. A close look at the history reveals that these ideological arguments fail to explain key aspects of U.S. policy. Contrary to ideological explanations, the United States initially sought to cooperate with the Soviet Union, did not in…
What Do Policymakers Want From Us? Results of a Survey of Current and Former Senior National Security Decision Makers
What do the most senior national security policymakers want from international relations scholars? To answer that question, we administered a unique survey to current and former policymakers to gauge when and how they use academic social science to inform national security decision making. We find that policymakers do regularly follow academic social science research and scholarship on national security affairs, hoping to draw upon its substantiv…
Who's Afraid of the Bomb? The Role of Nuclear Non-Use Norms in Confrontations between Nuclear and Non-Nuclear Opponents
This article examines the role that nuclear non-use norms play in non-nuclear state decision making during confrontations with nuclear opponents. The claim that norms constrain nuclear use is one of the most important examples of norms influencing state security decisions. Many extend the claim to argue that non-nuclear weapon states realize norms constrain the nuclear opponent and therefore discount the possibility of nuclear strikes. To date th…
To Kill Nations
Edward Kaplan seeks to explain “the rise and fall of air-atomic power in the early Cold War” (p. 6). He accomplishes this and more, providing a book that should be widely read by students of nuclear strategy. The broad elements of the story are familiar. Yet the devil is in the details; terms such as “massive retaliation” and “assured destruction” are used imprecisely by many scholars. Kaplan offers precision by mustering an impressive array of d…
Do US Troop Withdrawals Cause Instability? Evidence from Two Exogenous Shocks on the Korean Peninsula
Does withdrawing forward-deployed US troops increase instability? This question is at the heart of current grand strategy debates, yet endogeneity issues make this very difficult to answer. Put simply, stability may cause the United States to withdraw forces and lead one to incorrectly infer that withdrawals do not lead to greater instability. We suggest a research design to help alleviate this endogeneity problem. By utilizing exogenous crises t…
The Historical Rarity of Foreign-Deployed Nuclear Weapon Crises
What are the strategic costs of foreign-deployed nuclear weapons? Thus far, scholars have focused primarily on the possible benefits: deterring adversaries and reassuring allies. There is little scholarship on the costs side of the cost–benefit equation. This article evaluates one potential cost: that deployments generate crises. I argue that such deployments have, historically, rarely resulted in crises because few deployments generate the level…
Bridging the Theory-Practice Divide in International Relations
MAD and Taboo
This research note reports views on nuclear deterrence, coercion, and non-use norms from surveys of 320 current and former US national security officials and 1,303 US-based international relations scholars. It finds that both groups hold relatively optimistic views on these key issues. Majorities express confidence that nuclear weapons are useful for deterrence, but are skeptical that a nuclear arsenal can translate into coercive foreign policy s…
Narrowing the Academic-Policy Divide
THERE IS ENDURING INTEREST IN making political science more relevant to policymakers and the public.1 Most political scientists seeking to bridge the academic-policymaker gap believe that the main obstacle they face is a failure of communication. According to this view, a significant amount of the research they conduct is potentially relevant to policymakers, but scholars struggle to engage key audiences. In other words, the problem is with the p…
Does Social Science Inform Foreign Policy? Evidence from a Survey of US National Security, Trade, and Development Officials
Scholars continue to debate the relationship of academic international relations to policy. One of the most straightforward ways to discern whether policymakers find IR scholarship relevant to their work is to ask them. We analyzed an elite survey of US policy practitioners to better understand the conditions under which practitioners use academic knowledge in their work. We surveyed officials across three different policy areas: international de…
Grand Strategies of the Left
Latent and Weaponized Nuclear Coercion
How does the potential to construct a nuclear weapon shape international politics? Matthew Fuhrmann's important new book explains why nuclear latent state efforts at deterrence by threats of proliferation, delayed retaliation, and doubts about their nuclear status succeed or fail. He finds that the level of enrichment capabilities, political stakes, and intentions shape the likelihood that each discrete deterrence pathway pays dividends or genera…
Political science (9 obras) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (7 obras) · Law (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Politics (6 obras) · Foreign policy (5 obras) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (5 obras) · Computer Science (4 obras) · Nuclear weapon (4 obras)