Jeffrey Knopf

Jeff Knopf is a professor at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies (MIIS) in Monterey, California, where he serves as chair of the M.A. program in Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies and a senior research associate with the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS). While on sabbatical for the 2018-19 academic year he spent the year as a visiting scholar at CISAC. Dr. Knopf received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Stanford and was previously a pre-doctoral fellow at CISAC. His most recent book, co-authored with Matthew Moran and Wyn Bowen, is Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons, published by Oxford University Press in its Bridging the Gap series. His most recent journal article, “The Inherent Unpredictability of Nuclear Deterrence,” was published in a special issue of The Nonproliferation Review. Dr. Knopf is currently working on a project that examines the impact of individuals in shaping the global nuclear order.