Colleen Larkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 4247780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Colleen Larkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Colleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Larkin |
| SIGNATURE | LARKIN C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia University |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-6371-8543 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Nuclear Shibboleths
Thomas Schelling argued that “The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger.” To this, he added a question: “Can we make it through another half dozen decades?” Contemporary technological innovation, weapons proliferation, increased modernization efforts, and nuclear saber-rattling have made Schelling's question an urgent one. Recently, there ha…
The Uncertainty Doctrine
Journal Article The Uncertainty Doctrine: Narrative Politics and US Hard Power after the Cold War by Alexandra Homolar Get access Alexandra Homolar. New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2023. 220 pp. $110.00. Colleen Larkin Colleen Larkin Harvard Kennedy School https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6371-8543 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, qqae079, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqa…
The most humane of all weapons’
How did the norm of discrimination become the dominant yardstick to measure the ethics of US airpower? Conventional accounts suggest that as elites and publics embraced norms of discrimination, this pushed US air forces to adopt a precision doctrine, one that demands accurately striking military, and not civilian, targets. Relying on a pragmatic reading of norm contestation and settling, we suggest that conventional explanations have the causal s…
Worldly Shame
Shameless behavior seems to be on the rise in political life—politicians lie, powerful companies cheat, and extremist groups flagrantly violate rules and norms without facing punishment. In Worldly Shame: Ethos in Action, Manu Samnotra offers a provocative solution to help transcend this shamelessness: shame itself. Samnotra develops a concept of “worldly shame,” where the feeling of shame generates “the awareness that we share and build upon a w…
Nuclear Shibboleths
Thomas Schelling argued that “The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger.” To this, he added a question: “Can we make it through another half dozen decades?” Contemporary technological innovation, weapons proliferation, increased modernization efforts, and nuclear saber-rattling have made Schelling's question an urgent one. Recently, there ha…
The most humane of all weapons’
How did the norm of discrimination become the dominant yardstick to measure the ethics of US airpower? Conventional accounts suggest that as elites and publics embraced norms of discrimination, this pushed US air forces to adopt a precision doctrine, one that demands accurately striking military, and not civilian, targets. Relying on a pragmatic reading of norm contestation and settling, we suggest that conventional explanations have the causal s…
The most humane of all weapons’
How did the norm of discrimination become the dominant yardstick to measure the ethics of US airpower? Conventional accounts suggest that as elites and publics embraced norms of discrimination, this pushed US air forces to adopt a precision doctrine, one that demands accurately striking military, and not civilian, targets. Relying on a pragmatic reading of norm contestation and settling, we suggest that conventional explanations have the causal s…
Worldly Shame
Shameless behavior seems to be on the rise in political life—politicians lie, powerful companies cheat, and extremist groups flagrantly violate rules and norms without facing punishment. In Worldly Shame: Ethos in Action, Manu Samnotra offers a provocative solution to help transcend this shamelessness: shame itself. Samnotra develops a concept of “worldly shame,” where the feeling of shame generates “the awareness that we share and build upon a w…
The Uncertainty Doctrine
Journal Article The Uncertainty Doctrine: Narrative Politics and US Hard Power after the Cold War by Alexandra Homolar Get access Alexandra Homolar. New York, NY, Cambridge University Press, 2023. 220 pp. $110.00. Colleen Larkin Colleen Larkin Harvard Kennedy School https://orcid.org/0009-0004-6371-8543 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, qqae079, https://doi.org/10.1093/psquar/qqa…
Nuclear Shibboleths
Thomas Schelling argued that “The most spectacular event of the past half century is one that did not occur. We have enjoyed sixty years without nuclear weapons exploded in anger.” To this, he added a question: “Can we make it through another half dozen decades?” Contemporary technological innovation, weapons proliferation, increased modernization efforts, and nuclear saber-rattling have made Schelling's question an urgent one. Recently, there ha…
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Doctrine (2 works) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · Art (1 work) · Business (1 work) · Cold war (1 work) · Commit (1 work)