Sharon Weiner

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Title
Associate Professor
Department
School of International Service
Institution
American University
Email
skweiner@american.edu

Education

  • PhD, political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • MA, University of Lancaster (UK)
  • BS, Northeast Missouri State University
  • BA, Northeast Missouri State University

Research Interests

Defense Organization and Civil Military Relations   And the Role of Scientific Expertise in US Foreign Policy.   And U.S. Defense and Foreign Policy. Her Current Project Looks at Joint U.S. Russian Efforts to Control the Proliferation of Weapons Experts and Materials From the Former Soviet Nuclear and Biological Weapons Complexes. Other Projects Focus on Army Modernization and Weapons Procurement for Iraq  

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Biography

Sharon K. Weiner writes about the intersection of organizational politics and U.S. national security policy. Her book Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise (MIT Press 2011) examines the role of organizational and partisan politics in the success and failure of U.S. cooperative nonproliferation programs with the former Soviet Union. It is the winner of the 2012 Louis Brownlow award from the National Academy of Public Administration. She is currently finishing a book on U.S. civil-military relations and especially the policy implications of the organization of the defense department. Her work has appeared in International Security, Political Science Quarterly, The Nonproliferation Review, as well as other journals. She also pursues research and teaching interests in U.S. relations with South Asia, nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, and U.S. foreign and defense policy. She holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT's Security Studies Program.

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  (202) 885-1634

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List of Publications (2)
In 2008
2

- "Reconsidering Cooperative Threat Reduction: Russian Nuclear Weapons Scientists and Non-Proliferation," Contemporary Security Policy, Vol. 29, No. 3 (December 2008), pp. 477-501.

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In 2004
1

- "Preventing Nuclear Entrepreneurship in Russia's Nuclear Cities," International SecurityVol. 27, No. 2, Fall 2002. Reprinted in: New Global Dangers: Changing Dimensions of International Security (Cambridge, MIT Press, 2004).

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