Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky

Prof. Dmitry (Dima) Adamsky is an associate with the Project on Managing the Atom, at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University. He has previously been affiliated with Oxford, Columbia, and Zurich Universities, and with the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies. He heads the BA Honors Track in Strategic Studies at the School of Government, Reichman University.

For more than twenty years Prof. Adamsky has been exploring matters pertaining to international security as a civil servant, university professor, and government consultant on both sides of the Atlantic.  He has published on military innovations, strategic culture, nuclear affairs, U.S., Russian and Israeli national security in the leading academic and policy outlets.

His books Operation Kavkaz (2006) and The Culture of Military Innovation (Stanford UP, 2010) earned the prizes for the best academic works on Israeli security. His book Russian Nuclear Orthodoxy (Stanford UP, 2019) won the ISA best book award on religion and international relations. His book The Russian Way of Deterrence (Stanford UP, 2023) was named among the best books of 2024 by Foreign Affairs in the military, science and technology category, and among the best books of 2024 by Engelsberg Ideas.  His forthcoming book is The New Commissars (Cambridge UP, 2026).