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, 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).