Welcome! I am currently a Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Hans J. Morgenthau Fellow at the University of Notre Dame. I received my PhD in Political Science in 2022 from the University of Pennsylvania and was a Predoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School from 2021 to 2022.
My research focuses on questions related to reputation, gender, drones, weapons of mass destruction, coercion, norms, and climate change. Should countries go to war in order to maintain or bolster their reputation for resolve? What impact will greater female leadership in the U.S. and around the world have on international politics? Why and how does military technology spread? What factors impact support for the use of nuclear weapons? Do armed drones reduce or increase terrorism? These are the kinds of questions my research addresses.
My academic research has been published or is forthcoming in International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, and Conflict Management and Peace Science. You can also find my policy commentary in Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Defense One, and Political Violence at a Glance.
Before starting my PhD program at Penn, I graduated from the George Washington University summa cum laude with a double major in Economics and Political Science. During that time, I interned with the State Department and the United States Senate.
If you're interested in learning more about my research, please contact me at josha@mit.edu and follow me on Twitter @JoshuaASchwartz.
My research focuses on questions related to reputation, gender, drones, weapons of mass destruction, coercion, norms, and climate change. Should countries go to war in order to maintain or bolster their reputation for resolve? What impact will greater female leadership in the U.S. and around the world have on international politics? Why and how does military technology spread? What factors impact support for the use of nuclear weapons? Do armed drones reduce or increase terrorism? These are the kinds of questions my research addresses.
My academic research has been published or is forthcoming in International Organization, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Studies Quarterly, and Conflict Management and Peace Science. You can also find my policy commentary in Foreign Affairs, Washington Post, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Defense One, and Political Violence at a Glance.
Before starting my PhD program at Penn, I graduated from the George Washington University summa cum laude with a double major in Economics and Political Science. During that time, I interned with the State Department and the United States Senate.
If you're interested in learning more about my research, please contact me at josha@mit.edu and follow me on Twitter @JoshuaASchwartz.