Nina Tannenwald

Associate Research Professor of International Relations:
Watson Institute for International Studies
Phone: +1 401 863 1056
Nina_Tannenwald@Brown.EDU

Nina Tannenwald's research focuses on the role of international institutions, norms and ideas in global security issues, and efforts to control weapons of mass destruction.

Biography

Nina Tannenwald joined the Watson Institute in 1997. Her teaching and research interests lie in the area of international institutions and norms in the security area, weapons of mass destruction, and human rights and humanitarian law. Her articles have appeared in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the Journal of Strategic Studies, and Ethics and International Affairs, among others. Tannenwald's book, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 (Cambridge, December 2007) was awarded the Lepgold Prize for a distinguished work in international relations by Georgetown University in 2009. She has also edited, with William Wohlforth, a special issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies on the role of ideas and the end of the Cold War. Her research on why some weapons are regarded as inhumane while others are not has been supported by the MacArthur Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation. She is also working on a project assessing how the Geneva Conventions on humanitarian law influence the behavior of states.

Tannenwald was director of the International Relations Program at Brown from 2003-2006. She was a visiting professor in the Government Department and Peace Studies Program at Cornell in 2006-2007, and at Stanford in 2002-2003. Tannenwald has been a commentator on local radio and television, and in the op-ed pages, on nuclear weapons issues. She also has been a consultant to the United Nations Association. Prior to coming to the Watson Institute, she held fellowships at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation and Harvard's Center for Science and International Affairs, and taught at the University of Colorado at Boulder. She holds a master's degree from the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs and a Ph.D in international relations from Cornell University.

Degrees

Ph.D, Cornell

Awards

Lepgold Book Prize, Georgetown University, 2009.

Visiting Scholar, Center for International Security and Cooperation,
Stanford, 2002-03

Carnegie Corporation Scholar, 2001-2003.

MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant, 2000-2001.

Joukowsky Family endowed assistant professorship, Brown University.

Dissertation nominated by Cornell University for the American
Political Science Association's Helen Dwight Reid Award for
best dissertation in international relations, 1996.

Post-doctoral Fellowship, Watson Institute for International
Studies, Brown University, 1995–1996.

MacArthur Fellowship, Frankfurt Peace Research Institute, Germany,
1992.

Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Center for International Security and Arms
Control, Stanford University,1991–92.

Brookings Dissertation Fellowship (1991-92, declined).

Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Center for Strategic and International
Studies, UCLA (1991-92, declined).

Pre-doctoral Fellowship, Center for Science and International
Affairs, Harvard University,1989–91.

Fellowship, Institute for the Study of World Politics, 1989-90.

MacArthur Fellow and Summer Research Fellowships, Cornell Peace
Studies Program, 1987-91

Baruch Fellowship, United Nations Association of the USA, New York,
NY, 1984.

DAAD Scholarship for study in Bremen, West Germany, 1982.

German Consulate Book Award for Academic Excellence in German,
Dartmouth College, 1982.

Affiliations

Council Member, International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association, 2007-2010

Member, American Political Science Association

Member, International Studies Association

Member, American Society of International Law

Vice President, Consortium for Qualitative Research Methods, 2003-2006

Educators' Advisory Committee, Arms Control Association, Washington, DC

External Advisory Committee, Frankfurt Peace Research Institute, Germany

Advisory Board, Brown Journal of World Affairs

Scholar-in-Residence, Moses Brown School (2005-2006)

Teaching

Professor Tannenwald has taught at Brown, the University of Colorado at Boulder, and has been a visiting assistant professor at Stanford. In 2006-2007 she was a visiting associate professor at Cornell.

Courses taught:
Introduction to International Relations
International Organization and World Politics
International Law
The Transformation of the International System
Globalization and Culture
Theories of International Institutions
Constructivism and International Relations
The International Law and Politics of Human Rights

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Curriculum Vitae

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