Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief
Ron Hassner ✉
University of California, Berkeley
Ron E. Hassner is a Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores the role of ideas, practices and symbols in international security with particular attention to the relationship between religion and violence. His published work focuses on territorial disputes, religion in the military, conflicts over holy places, the pervasive role of religion on the modern battlefield, and the politics of torture. He is editor of the Cornell University Press book series "Religion and Conflict". In 2023, the Religion and International Relations section of the International Studies Association recognized Ron’s work with a Distinguished Scholar Award. Later that year, he received an Outstanding Scholar Award from the Religion and Politics section of the American Political Science Association.
Ron is the author of Anatomy of Torture (Cornell University Press, 2022), Religion on the Battlefield (Cornell University Press, 2016), and War on Sacred Grounds (Cornell, 2009). He is the editor of Religion and International Relations (with Isaac Svensson, Sage, 2016), and Religion in the Military Worldwide (Cambridge, 2013).
Associate Editors
Jon R. Lindsay ✉
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jon Lindsay is an Associate Professor at the School of Cybersecurity and Privacy and the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech). His research explores the role of emerging technology in global security. He is the author of Age of Deception: Cybersecurity as Secret Statecraft (Cornell, 2025) and of Information Technology and Military Power (Cornell, 2020), the co-author with Erik Gartzke of Elements of Deterrence: Strategy, Technology, and Complexity in Global Politics (Oxford, 2024), and editor of Cross-Domain Deterrence: Strategy in an Era of Complexity (Oxford, 2019) and of China and Cybersecurity: Espionage, Strategy, and Politics in the Digital Domain (Oxford, 2015). His latest book project is "The Odyssey of AI: The Wrath of Technology and the Return of Humanity."
Andrew J. Coe ✉
Vanderbilt
Andrew J. Coe earned his PhD from Harvard University in 2012. His work is devoted to understanding the causes and consequences of violent conflict in human civilization. His research involves the development and analysis of game-theoretic models of various aspects of conflict, often drawing on the principles of economic theory and his experience working for the U.S. government on national security policy. He has taught courses on formal models of politics, international security, the nature of war, the politics of weapons of mass destruction, and the economic analysis of conflict.
Alexander Lanoszka ✉
University of Waterloo
Alexander Lanoszka is an Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Waterloo as well as the Director of the Master of Public Service program. He studies alliance politics, theories of war, and European security. His first book Atomic Assurance: The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation (Cornell University Press, 2018) examines the conditions under which states that receive formal security commitments begin, and sometimes stop, seeking their own nuclear weapons. His second book Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century (Polity, 2022) offers a holistic overview of how alliances operate from their conception to their eventual demise. He has published in leading journals such as International Affairs, International Security, and International Studies Quarterly.
Dan Altman ✉
Georgia State University
Dan Altman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. His research examines issues of international security, focusing on strategy and statecraft on the brink of war. His interests include territorial conquest, the fait accompli, deterrence, coercion failure, nuclear proliferation, and the causes of war. His first book, Taking Territory: The Persistence of Conquest Since 1945, was published by Cornell University Press. He is working on a second book: Designing Around Deterrence: Gray Zone Competition and Limited Deterrence Failures. His research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Global Security Studies, the Journal of Strategic Studies, the Nonproliferation Review, and Security Studies. He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center (Harvard) and the Dickey Center (Dartmouth) as well as a predoctoral fellow at CISAC (Stanford). He received his PhD in Political Science from MIT.
Michael Poznansky ✉
U.S. Naval War College
Michael Poznansky is an Associate Professor in the Strategic and Operational Research Department and a core faculty member in the Cyber and Innovation Policy Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. He was previously an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University Pittsburgh. Poznansky is the author of Great Power, Great Responsibility: How the Liberal International Order Shapes US Foreign Policy (Oxford University Press, 2025) and In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar World (Oxford University Press, 2020). He has held fellowships with the Belfer Center at Harvard Kennedy School, the Dickey Center at Dartmouth College, and the Modern War Institute at West Point.
Rupal N. Mehta ✉
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Rupal N. Mehta is an Associate Professor (with tenure) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is currently a Faculty Fellow with the Nebraska Strategic Research Institute and a Research Collaborator at the Center for Peace and Security Studies (cPASS) at the University of California, San Diego. She also serves as a consultant for the Director’s Strategic Resilience Initiative in the National Security and International Studies Office at Los Alamos National Laboratory and a consultant for the Office of Cooperative Threat Reduction for the U.S. Department of State. Previously, she was a Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow in the Belfer Center's International Security Program and Project on Managing the Atom at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
Erik Lin-Greenberg ✉
MIT
Erik Lin-Greenberg is Associate Professor (without tenure) in the Department of Political Science at MIT. His research examines how emerging military technology affects conflict dynamics and the regulation and use of force. His book, The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft (Cornell University Press), explores how remote warfighting technologies are reshaping international politics. In other ongoing projects, he explores how technology and public opinion influence international politics and decisions on the use of force. He is also interested in the international politics of food and the use of wargaming as a tool of scholarly inquiry.
His work has appeared or is forthcoming in academic and policy outlets including Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Experimental Political Science, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, The Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy. He has held fellowships at Dartmouth's College Dickey Center for International Understanding, the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House, and at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He received the 2020 Merze Tate Award from the American Political Science Association.
He completed his PhD in Political Science at Columbia University, and an M.S. and B.S. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Before entering academia, he was an active duty officer in the United States Air Force and completed assignments in operational units, Headquarters Air Force, and the Joint Staff. He currently commands a squadron in the Air Force Reserve.
Managing Editor
Jason Klocek ✉
University of Nottingham
Jason Klocek is Assistant Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. He is also a Senior Researcher at the United States Institute of Peace and a Faculty Affiliate of the University of Notre Dame's Center for the Study of Religion and Society and. Prior to joining SPIR, Jason held an appointment as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. He received the American Political Science Association's 2019 Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best dissertation in the field of religion and politics. He holds a PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MA in Conflict Resolution from Georgetown University. He served with the U.S. Peace Corps in Turkmenistan from 2003-2005.
Jason's research and teaching interests primarily lie at the intersection of political violence and repression, with particular attention to the role of religion. His current book project explores how counterinsurgents construe and respond to religious rebellions with an empirical focus on British insurgency wars during the early postwar period. He has also written on the determinants of minority discrimination, religious violence, the military chaplaincy, interfaith dialogue, relational peace, intersectional stereotyping in political decision making, and religion during the Covid-19 pandemic.