Michael Poznansky
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I am an Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Intelligence Studies in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and a faculty affiliate with the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies and Pitt Cyber at the University of Pittsburgh. Prior to joining GSPIA, I was a predoctoral research fellow with the International Security Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. I received my Ph.D. from the University of Virginia in Politics (2016).

My research sits at the intersection of security and intelligence studies, with a particular focus on why and how leaders exploit secrecy on the world stage. My book project, The Politics of Secret Interventions, develops a legal theory of covert action that explains how the rise of the nonintervention principle in the mid-twentieth century created powerful incentives for leaders to conceal their role in regime change operations. My research has been published or is forthcoming in the American Journal of Political Science​, the European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Global Security Studies​, and the Journal of Peace Research​.
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You can reach me at: poznansky@pitt.edu
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