I am an Assistant Professor of International Affairs and Intelligence Studies in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs with a secondary appointment in the Department of Political Science at the University of Pittsburgh. I am also a faculty affiliate with the Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Security Studies and Pitt Cyber. During the 2019-2020 academic year, I am a Non-Resident Fellow with the Modern War Institute at the United States Military Academy at West Point. 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, In the Shadow of International Law: Covert Action in the Postwar World, is currently under contract with Oxford University Press. It develops a legal theory of secret interventions 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.
You can reach me at: poznansky@pitt.edu
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, In the Shadow of International Law: Covert Action in the Postwar World, is currently under contract with Oxford University Press. It develops a legal theory of secret interventions 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.
You can reach me at: poznansky@pitt.edu
