James Jerome John Cameron
Academic interests
Arms control
Nuclear strategy
The Cold War
International history
US history
Background
Dr. James Cameron is a Postdoctoral Fellow (Assistant Professor) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Oslo, where he is a member of the Oslo Nuclear Project. His research focuses on the history of arms control from the nineteenth century to the present and the lessons it holds for contemporary policy. He has previously been a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of War Studies at King's College London, at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University and Yale University's International Security Studies. He holds a PhD and BA in History from the University of Cambridge and an MPhil in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Oxford.
Teaching
Selected publications
- The Double Game: The Demise of America's First Missile Defense System and the Rise of Strategic Arms Limitation (Oxford University Press, 2017).
- "What History Can Teach," Daedalus, The Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 149:2 (2020).
- "Technology, Politics and Development: Domestic Criticism of the 1975 Brazilian-West German Nuclear Agreement," Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional 61:2 (2018).
- With Or Rabinowitz, "Eight Lost Years? Nixon, Ford, Kissinger and the Non-Proliferation Regime, 1969-1977," Journal of Strategic Studies 40:6 (2017).
- "From the Grass Roots to the Summit: The Impact of U.S. Suburban Protest on U.S. Missile Defence Policy, 1968-72," The International History Review 36:2 (2014).
Publications
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Cameron, James Jerome John (2021). Anticommunism, Trade, and Debt: The Reagan Administration and Brazil, 1981-1989. In Hunt, Jonathan R. & Miles, Simon (Ed.), The Reagan Moment: America and the World in the 1980s. Cornell University Press (CUP). ISSN 9781501760716. p. 281–299.
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Cameron, James Jerome John (2020). What History Can Teach. Daedalus. ISSN 0011-5266. 149(2), p. 116–132. doi: 10.1162/daed_a_01793. Full text in Research Archive
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Cameron, James Jerome John (2021). China’s Silos: New Intelligence, Old Problems. War on the Rocks.
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Cameron, James Jerome John (2021). Russia proved it can shoot down a satellite. Does this make space less secure? The Washington Post.
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Cameron, James Jerome John (2021). What did China test in space, exactly, and why? The Washington Post.
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Cameron, James Jerome John (2021). The U.S. and Russia kept a bilateral nuclear weapons deal alive. The harder part comes next. The Washington Post.
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Cameron, James Jerome John & Rabinowitz, Or (2020). Trump officials have talked about resuming nuclear testing. Here’s why that would hurt the U.S. The Washington Post.
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Cameron, James Jerome John (2020). The U.S. plans to withdraw from the Open Skies treaty. That’s a miscalculation. The Washington Post.
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Cameron, James Jerome John; Pifer, Steven & Andrey, Baklitskiy (2021). Deep Cuts Working Paper #14: Missile Defense and the Offense Defense Relationship. Deep Cuts Commission.