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Nina Tannenwald is the Director of Brown University's International Relations Program, a Senior Lecturer in the Political Science Department, and faculty fellow at the Watson Institute for International Relations. Tannenwald is a noted proponent of Constructivism (international relations) in Political science.

She was previously assistant professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and assistant and then associate research professor at the Watson Institute. She has been a visiting professor at Cornell and Stanford Universities, a Carnegie Scholar, and a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Fellow in International Peace and Security. In 2012-13 she served as a Franklin Fellow in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation in the US State Department. Tannenwald was director of the International Relations Program at the Institute from 2003 to 2006. Prior to coming to Brown, she held fellowships at Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation and Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. She holds a master's degree from the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs and a PhD in international relations from Cornell University.​

Research Focus
Tannenwald's research and teaching 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 articles have appeared in International Organization, International Security, International Studies Review, Yale Journal of International Law, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Journal of Strategic Studies, and Ethics and International Affairs, among others. Her book, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Nonuse of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2007) won the 2009 Lepgold Prize for best book in international relations. She has also edited, with William Wohlforth, a special issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies on the role of ideas and the end of the Cold War. Her current research assesses how the Geneva Conventions on humanitarian law influence the behavior of states and non-state actors.

Courses Taught
POLS 1500 The International Law and Politics of Human Rights This course introduces the law and politics of international human rights. It examines the gradual construction of an international human rights regime and its influence on international politics. Drawing on cases from around the world, the course surveys the actors and organizations involved in the promotion of human rights, as well as obstacles to such promotion. It reviews competing conceptions of human rights, whether human rights are universal, problems of enforcement, and the role of human rights in foreign policy. Major topics include civil and political rights; economic, social and cultural rights; the laws of war, humanitarian intervention, transnational corporations, women's rights, and the international criminal court.

POLS 2130 Graduate Field Seminar in International Relations Theory This seminar provides an overview of the field of international relations for graduate students. It focuses on the main theoretical trajectories and intellectual disagreements that have shaped the discipline over the past quarter-century, and on the principal theoretical fault-lines that define it today.

POLS 1822U Senior Seminar:  War and Human Rights How nations and their adversaries treat civilians and other non-combatants in wartime has become an increasingly central issue in global politics. This seminar will explore the intersection of armed conflict, human rights, and the laws of war (also known as the law of armed conflict or international humanitarian law). Human rights and international humanitarian law are two bodies of law that provide a set of principles and rules guiding how nations are to treat their citizens in peacetime (human rights), and non-combatants, including prisoners of war, in wartime (laws of war). The “war on terror,” with its ill-defined battlefield and no clear endpoint, increasingly blurs the distinction between peacetime and wartime, and poses new challenges for both these bodies of law. This seminar will begin by studying the rise and spread of the notion of human rights, examining some of the core debates over human rights, including their enforcement in times of war. It will then turn to the laws of war, focusing especially on the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the challenges posed to the Conventions by the rise of non-state actors wielding significant violence. The seminar will focus especially on how civilians, prisoners and so-called terrorists are protected (or not) in times of war, and the politics and institutions of enforcement. Topics include child soldiers, war crimes, humanitarian intervention, torture, targeted killings, humanitarianism, and the international justice.

Publications
Book review: Command and Control, by Eric Schlosser, San Francisco Chronicle, September 20, 2013.

"Roundtable: Nonproliferation in the 21st Century: Justice and Fairness in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" Ethics & International Affairs, 27, no. 3 (2013), pp. 299-317

How the Geneva Conventions Matter (forthcoming, Oxford University Press, 2014), co-edited with Matthew Evangelista.

"The Status and Future of the Nuclear Taboo," in Harsh V. Pant, ed., Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation (Routledge, 2012), pp. 62-74.

"Qualitative Methods: The New Oppressors?" Contribution to a symposium on "Should We Discard the 'Qualitative' vs. 'Quantitative' Distinction?" edited by Deepa Prakesh and Audie Klotz, International Studies Review, Vol. 9, No. 4 (2007), pp. 764-767.

The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 (Cambridge, 2007). Winner of the 2009 Lepgold Prize for best book in international relations.

"Stigmatizing the Bomb: Origins of the Nuclear Taboo," International Security, Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring 2005), pp. 5-49.

Grants and Fellowships
Carnegie Corporation Scholar, 2001-2003. MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Grant, 2000-2001. Carnegie Corporation Grant for $113,000 for “Understanding the End of the Cold War,” Co-PI with Thomas Biersteker and P. Terrence Hopmann, 1998.