Paul Avey
Affiliated Faculty, Government and International Affairs (GIA)
531 Major Williams Hall
200 Stanger St.
Blacksburg, VA 24061
200 Stanger St.
Blacksburg, VA 24061
- Ph.D., Political Science, University of Notre Dame, 2013
- M.A., Political Science, University of Notre Dame, 2010
- M.A., Social Sciences, University of Chicago, 2006
- B.A., University of Iowa, with Distinction, 2005
- Nuclear strategy
- National security
- Strategies for Modern War
- National Security Policies
- Security Studies: Theory and Concepts
- Nuclear Strategy and Politics
- Introduction to World Politics
- National Security (undergraduate)
- National Security (graduate)
- Tempting Fate: Why Nonnuclear States Confront Nuclear Opponents (Cornell University Press, 2019)
- “The Historical Rarity of Foreign-Deployed Nuclear Weapon Crises,” Security Studies, Vol. 27, No. 1 (January – March 2018)
- “Do U.S. Troop Withdrawals Cause Instability? Evidence from Two Exogenous Shocks on the Korean Peninsula,” Journal of Global Security Studies, Vol 3, No. 1 (January 2018). (With Jonathan N. Markowitz and Robert J. Reardon)
- “What Do Policymakers Want from Us? Results from a Survey of Current and Former National Security Decision-makers,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 2 (June 2014). (With Michael C. Desch)