Lauren Sukin

Lauren Sukin is the John G. Winant Associate Professor in U.S. Foreign Policy in the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford as well as a Professorial Fellow at Nuffield College at the University of Oxford. She is an Affiliate at Stanford University's Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), a Nonresident Scholar in the Nuclear Policy Program (NPP) at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP), a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Statecraft & National Security (CSNS) at King's College London, and a Fellow at Charles University's Peace Research Centre Prague (PRCP). She holds a Ph.D. and M.A. from the Department of Political Science at Stanford University and A.B.s from the Departments of Political Science and Literary Arts at Brown University. Lauren was a Pre-Doctoral Fellow and a MacArthur Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation during the 2021-2022 academic year.

Lauren’s research examines issues of international security, focusing primarily on the role of nuclear weapons in international politics. Her research leverages multi-method approaches, including survey experiments, case studies, causal analysis, and machine learning. Lauren’s book project examines the effects of credibility in the context of U.S. extended deterrence, arguing that highly credible nuclear security guarantees can backfire. Her work has appeared in publications such as Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, and International Studies Quarterly as well as in media outlets such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and War on the Rocks.