Research
My research focuses on the technologies and strategies that states develop to prepare for, threaten, and actually fight war. Specifically, I work on how states construct their military arsenals (procurement of military technology and the global arms trade), the development of key strategic concepts (deterrence and dual-use capabilities), and the linkages between divergent issue areas in the context of global crises (the nuclear-conventional nexus and the commonalities between COVID-19, nuclear dangers, and climate change). To answer these questions, I use a wide range of methods, including qualitative case studies built on archival data and interviews, text analysis, wargames, survey experiments, and descriptive statistics.
My research focuses on the technologies and strategies that states develop to prepare for, threaten, and actually fight war. Specifically, I work on how states construct their military arsenals (procurement of military technology and the global arms trade), the development of key strategic concepts (deterrence and dual-use capabilities), and the linkages between divergent issue areas in the context of global crises (the nuclear-conventional nexus and the commonalities between COVID-19, nuclear dangers, and climate change). To answer these questions, I use a wide range of methods, including qualitative case studies built on archival data and interviews, text analysis, wargames, survey experiments, and descriptive statistics.
Château de Vincennes, French Military Archives. Picture by Sanne Verschuren.
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