Press Release
from Quarterly Journal: International Security
Mark S. Bell's summer 2015 International Security article, "Beyond Emboldenment: How Acquiring Nuclear Weapons Can Change Foreign Policy," is one of two co-winners of the 2016 Patricia Weitsman Award for Outstanding International Security Studies Section Graduate Paper. The award will be presented at the 2016 International Studies Association Annual Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
The Patricia Weitsman Award for Outstanding International Security Studies Section Graduate Paper recognizes the best graduate student paper on any aspect of security studies. The paper must have been presented at the International Studies Annual Convention or the annual International Security Studies Section/International Security and Arms Control Conference.
In announcing Bell's award, the Weitsman Award Committee praised his article:
Mark Bell's paper, "Beyond Emboldenment: The Effects of Nuclear Weapons on State Foreign Policy," proffers a new a typology that innovatively delineates the ways in which the acquisition of nuclear weapons can alter the foreign policy behavior of current and future nuclear states. He then demonstrates the utility of his argument by examining the "hard" case of Britain's acquisition of nuclear weapons in the mid-1950s. This piece, which has since been published in the journal International Security, should help frame and inform how both scholars and policymakers think about the effects of the acquisition of nuclear weapons on state behavior.
Mark is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom research fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School.