In her doctoral project, Jamie Withorne will study how emerging technology, changing regional geopolitics, and alliance structures influence nuclear weapons strategic stability. Her work will incorporate case study insights from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), as well as the Arctic and East Asian regions. She seeks to construct and apply a novel theoretical framework for evaluating technology and alliances’ impact on strategic stability by incorporating regional perspectives. Methodologically, she will embed geospatial data with process tracing to map changing security environments and nuclear weapons policies.
Previously, Jamie worked as a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow with the International Atomic Energy Agency in the Department of Nuclear Security and Safety, a Graduate Affiliate and Research Assistant with the Oslo Nuclear Project at the University of Oslo, and a Research Assistant at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, DC. She has also held positions at several nuclear policy organizations including the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the US Department of State, and the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation. Her research focuses on nuclear weapons policy, arms control and nonproliferation, and emerging technology. Jamie has a BA in Political Science from Columbia University in the City of New York, and an MPhil in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Oslo in Norway.