UNDERSTANDING AND ADDRESSING THE CHALLENGES TO THE NUCLEAR ORDER
GM Room, Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT
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DAY 1 – May 5, 2023
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-09:15 Opening Remarks: Alexandre Debs (Yale University)
09:15-10:45 1. Roundtable: The Evolution of the Nuclear Order
Chair: Arne Westad (Yale University)
Participants: Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer (University of Oslo), Daryl G. Press (Dartmouth College), Or Rabinowitz (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Heather Williams (Center for Strategic & International Studies).
10:45-11:00 Coffee Break
11:00-13:00 2. Nuclear Proliferation
Chair: Alexandre Debs (Yale University)
Paper 1: Mayumi Fukushima (Harvard University)
Discussant: Etel Solingen (University of California-Irvine)
Paper 2: Eliza Gheorghe (University of Bilkent)
Discussant: Matthew Fuhrmann (Texas A&M University)
Paper 3: Jiyoung Ko (Korea University)
Discussant: Nicholas Miller (Dartmouth College)
Paper 4: Reid Pauly (Brown University)
Discussant: Andrew Coe (Vanderbilt University), TBC
13:00-14:00 Lunch
14:00-16:00 3. Arms Control
Chair: Jeffrey Lewis (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
Paper 1: James J. J. Cameron (University of Oslo)
Discussant: Brendan Rittenhouse Green (University of Cincinnati)
Paper 2: Stephen Herzog (ETH-Zürich)
Discussant: Fritz Bartel (Texas A&M University)
Paper 3: John D. Maurer (Air University)
Discussant: Jeffrey Lewis (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
Paper 4: Tristan Volpe (Naval Postgraduate School and Carnegie)
Discussant: Todd Sechser (University of Virginia)
16:00-18:30 Break
18:30-20:30 Dinner
DAY 2 – May 6, 2023
08:00-09:00 Breakfast
09:00-10:30 4. Nuclear Posture and Crisis Dynamics
Chair: Jonathan Caverley (U.S. Naval War College)
Paper 1: David Minchin Allison (Harvard University)
Discussant: Shuhei Kurizaki (Waseda University)
Paper 2: Kyle Atwell (U.S. Military Academy-West Point) and David Logan (U.S. Naval War College)
Discussant: Keir A. Lieber (Georgetown University)
Paper 3: Fiona Cunningham (University of Pennsylvania)
Discussant: James D. Fearon (Stanford University)
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 5. Roundtable: Future Challenges to the Nuclear Order
Chair: Phil Haun (U.S. Naval War College)
Participants: Emma Belcher (Ploughshares Fund), Francesca Giovannini (Harvard University, Tufts University), Vipin Narang (MIT, U.S. Department of Defense), Jane Vaynman (Temple University, U.S. Department of State)
12:15-13:15 Lunch
Session formats: Conference sessions with the presentation of research papers (i.e. sessions 2-4) will proceed as follows: Each author in the panel will make a 10-minute presentation, then discussants will offer their remarks on their assigned paper for 10 minutes, and the rest of the session will open up for Q&A. Participants are encouraged to read all papers in advance. Roundtables (i.e. sessions 1 and 5) will proceed as follows: Each participant will share remarks for 15 minutes, and the rest of the session (30 minutes) will open up for Q&A.