ISA/APSA International Security Studies Conference

Project on Managing the Atom and International Security Program fellows contributed to the ISA–APSA International Security Studies Conference, presenting research on strategic stability, alliance commitments, deterrence, and emerging military technologies.

Laura Luca presented “The Private Diplomacy Trap” on the panel “Alliance Commitments and Credible Deterrence,” examining how public and private signaling shapes burden-sharing and extended deterrence dynamics within alliances. She also presented a new research design, “Manufacturing the Race,” on the panel “Ideas, Rhetoric, and Foreign Policy,” using machine learning to investigate how U.S. and Russian officials’ strategic rhetoric shapes competition over emerging military technologies.

Spenser Warren participated in the roundtable “Parsing Hype and Humility: Emerging Technologies and Strategic Stability,” which examined how artificial intelligence, cyber operations, autonomous systems, and quantum technologies may affect deterrence and strategic stability. Bringing together perspectives from technical disciplines, science and technology studies, and security studies, the discussion explored how empirical evidence and methodological rigor can help distinguish substantiated concerns from technological hype.