I am 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. This academic year, I am a U.S. Foreign Policy and International Security fellow with the Dickey Center for International Understanding at Dartmouth College and a Non-Resident Fellow with the Modern War Institute at the United States Military Academy at West Point. Prior to coming to the University of Pittsburgh, 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. in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.
My research sits at the intersection of security and intelligence studies, with a focus on why and how leaders exploit secrecy on the world stage. My book, In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar World, is published 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, European Journal of International Relations, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Global Security Studies, Journal of Peace Research, and Journal of Strategies Studies.
You can reach me at: michael.poznansky@dartmouth.edu
My research sits at the intersection of security and intelligence studies, with a focus on why and how leaders exploit secrecy on the world stage. My book, In the Shadow of International Law: Secrecy and Regime Change in the Postwar World, is published 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, European Journal of International Relations, International Interactions, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Global Security Studies, Journal of Peace Research, and Journal of Strategies Studies.
You can reach me at: michael.poznansky@dartmouth.edu
