The Korean missile crisis: avoiding the cliffs at the edge of the summit
Scott D. Sagan is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of Political Science, the Mimi and Peter Haas University Fellow in Undergraduate Education, and Senior Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation and the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. He also serves as Chairman of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences’ Committee on International Security Studies. Before joining the Stanford faculty, Sagan was a lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University and served as special assistant to the director of the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. Sagan has also served as a consultant to the office of the Secretary of Defense and at the Sandia National Laboratory and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

His recent publications include “The Korean Missile Crisis” in Foreign Affairs (November/December 2017); “Revisiting Hiroshima in Iran: What Americans Really Think About Using Nuclear Weapons and Killing Noncombatants” with Benjamin A. Valentino in International Security (Summer 2017); and “Atomic Aversion: Experimental Evidence on Taboos, Traditions, and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons” with Daryl G. Press and Benjamin A. Valentino in the American Political Science Review (February 2013).

This event is held in partnership with the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict; the Changing Character of War Centre; the Oxford Consortium for Human Rights, and Oxford Security Policy Initiative.
Date: 25 May 2018, 17:00
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Speaker: Scott Sagan (Stanford University)
Organising department: Blavatnik School of Government
Organiser contact email address: events@bsg.ox.ac.uk
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