Expertise: Conflict management, ethnic conflict, humanitarian intervention, nuclear nonproliferation

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Alan J. Kuperman is Assistant Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin. He has been promoted to Associate Professor with tenure, effective September 2008.  He is author of one book, The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Brookings, 2001), and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War (Routledge, 2006).

His articles have appeared in journals and newspapers including Foreign Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, Global Governance, Political Science Quarterly, Security Studies, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. He also has chapters in books including Bosnian Security After Dayton: New Perspectives (New York: Routledge, 2006), The Media and the Rwanda Genocide (London: Pluto Press, 2006) Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in American Foreign Policy (McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, 2005), Genocide Perspectives, Volume III (Brandl and Schlesinger, 2005), American Foreign Policy: Cases and Choices (Foreign Affairs Books, 2003), Yugoslavia Unraveled: Sovereignty, Self-Determination, Intervention (Lexington, 2003), Nuclear Power & the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (Brassey’s, 2002), and The New American Interventionism: Successes and Failures (Columbia University Press, 1999).

He holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from MIT (2002) and has received fellowships from Harvard University, MIT, the University of Southern California, the U.S. Institute of Peace, the Brookings Institution, and the Institute for the Study of World Politics. Prior to his academic career, he worked as legislative director to Congressman Charles Schumer and legislative assistant to Speaker of the House Tom Foley.

Dr. Kuperman coordinates the Strauss Center's International Security Film Series, which screens new and forthcoming documentaries and feature films on topics of global concern.

Selected Research:

• "Mitigating the Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from Economics," Global Governance, Apr-June 2008
• "The Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the Balkans," International Studies Quarterly, Mar 2008
• "Averting the Third Kosovo War," The American Interest, Jan/Feb 2008

Selected Commentary:

• "Questions about future of HEU had role in Maple's end, AECL says," Inside NRC, May 2008
• "US weighs entering radioisotope market," Physics Today, May 2008
• "Government inflated fear of medical isotope shortage," Toronto Star, Mar 2008
• "Unrest in Belgrade," Newsworld, CBC-TV, Feb 2008
• "Kosovo Reactions," Russia Today, Feb 2008
• "Isotopes Pak," As It Happens, CBC Radio, Feb 2008
• "Canada snubbed international efforts to protect isotope supply, report says," The Canadian Press, Feb 2008
• "Critics slam use of weapons-grade uranium in Canadian reactors," National Post, Dec 2007
• "Fallout seen over isotope gap,"  Toronto Star, Dec 2007
• "Isotopes," As It Happens, CBC Radio, Dec 2007
• "Kosovo's Move Toward Independence Stirs Fears of Violence," VOA News, Dec 2007
• SqueezePlay, Business News Network, Dec 2007