Nina Tannenwald

Nina Tannenwald is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Science at Brown University in the USA. She is the former Director of the International Relations Program at Brown’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Her research focuses on the role of international institutions, norms and ideas in global security issues, efforts to control weapons of mass destruction, and human rights and the laws of war. Her book, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 was awarded the Lepgold Prize in 2009 for best book in international relations. In 2023, she served as Fulbright Visiting Professor of International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.