InFocus With Ejaz Haider EP54: Is Conquest Obsolete?
Guest: Dr. Daniel Altman
Dr. Daniel Altman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Georgia State University. His research examines issues of international security, focusing on questions of strategy and statecraft on the brink of war. His interests include territorial conquest, the fait accompli, deterrence, coercion failure, nuclear proliferation, and the causes of war. He is developing two books, Territorial Conquest Since 1945 and Challenging Deterrence: Gray Zone Competition and Limited Deterrence Failures. His research has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Strategic Studies, the Nonproliferation Review, and Security Studies. He was previously a postdoctoral fellow at the Belfer Center (Harvard Kennedy School), a postdoctoral fellow at the Dickey Center (Dartmouth), and a predoctoral fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (Stanford).