Benoît Pelopidas

About

Benoît Pelopidas is a lecturer (assistant professor with tenure) in international relations at the University of Bristol (Global Insecurities Center) and an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He has been awarded two international prizes for his research, from the International Studies Association and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. His research focuses on the global politics of nuclear vulnerability, cases of near-use of nuclear weapons, and lessons learned from global nuclear history and French nuclear policies. His is currently completing an edited volume on the experience of the Cuban missile crisis worldwide as an early set of experiences of global nuclear vulnerability and its implications for security, responsibility, and alliance dynamics.