Professor Bradley Thayer from USA joins the International Relation team
The faculty of International Relations at the School of Governance, Law and Society is welcoming a new world class professor of international security studies, Bradley Thayer who has very strong academic and professional background in international relations, cyber, and international security.
The faculty of International Relations at the School of Governance, Law and Society is welcoming a new world class professor of international security studies, Bradley Thayer who has very strong academic and professional background in international relations, cyber, and international security.
Professor Bradley Thayer earned his doctoral degree from the University of Chicago. His research integrates a broad range of professional interests including international relations theory and international security, including grand strategy, United States national security policy, nuclear deterrence, cyber warfare and deterrence, proliferation, terrorism, the rise of China, NATO and transatlantic relations, and the security dynamics of the Baltic and Nordic states.
He has been a Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and has taught at universities in the U.S., UK, and in Europe.
Professor Bradley Thayer has worked for the U.S. Department of Defense, the Rand Corporation, and served as a Senior Analyst for the National Institute for Public Policy, where he supported United States Strategic Command, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and the Missile Defense Agency. He has been a Fulbright Scholar Program Senior Specialist and has taught in the Czech Republic and Sweden.
Bradley Thayer’s publications include:
• Brian M. Mazanec and Bradley A. Thayer, Deterring Cyber Warfare: Bolstering Strategic Stability in Cyberspace (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
• Bradley A. Thayer and Nuray Ibryamova, eds., Debates in International Relations (New York: Pearson Longman, 2010)
• Bradley A. Thayer, editor, American National Security Policy: Essays in Honor of William R. Van Cleave (Fairfax, Va.: National Institute Press, 2007).
• Christopher Layne, Bradley A. Thayer, American Empire: A Debate (New York: Routledge, 2007).
• Darwin and International Relations: On the Evolutionary Origins of War and Ethnic Conflict (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2004)
• Richard Falkenrath, Robert Newman, and Bradley A. Thayer, America's Achilles' Heel: Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Weapons Terrorism and Covert Attack (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1998).