Nina Tannenwald

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Nina Tannenwald is an American political scientist. She is a senior lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Brown University, and a former director of Brown's International Relations Program. [1]

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Tannenwald has a MA from the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and a PhD in international relations from Cornell University. She was an assistant professor at the University of Colorado Boulder, and was Joukowsky Family Assistant Research Professor and then associate professor in Brown University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs before taking her present position in the Department of Political Science. [1]

Tannenwald has popularised the concept of there being a "nuclear taboo" which prevents the use of nuclear weapons. [2] Her 2007 book, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945, was the winner of the Lepgold Book Prize of Georgetown University for the best book in international relations. [3]

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  1. 1 2 "Nina Tannenwald, Senior Lecturer in Political Science". Researchers@Brown. Brown University. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  2. ↑ "Russia's invasion of Ukraine has eroded the nuclear taboo". The Economist. 14 June 2022. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
  3. ↑ "Lepgold Book Prize". Mortara Center For International Studies. Retrieved 2022-03-24.
  4. ↑ Reviews of The Nuclear Taboo:
  5. ↑ Slim, Hugo (September 2018). "Review of Do the Geneva Conventions Matter?". International Affairs. 94 (5): 1171–1172. doi:10.1093/ia/iiy155.
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