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About Me

My name is Alexander Lanoszka. I am an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and in the Balsillie School of International Affairs at the University of Waterloo. I am also an Associate Fellow at the UK-based Council on Geostrategy as well as a Senior Fellow at the Ottawa-based MacDonald-Laurier Institute. I am a co-director of the Réseau d'Analyse Stratégique and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Natolin. I am also director of the Master of Public Service program at Waterloo.

 

I was previously a Lecturer in the Department of International Politics at City, University of London and held postdoctoral fellowships at Dartmouth College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. I received my Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University in 2014.

 

My research addresses issues in alliance politics, nuclear strategy, and theories of war, and has appeared in International Security, International Studies Quarterly, International Affairs, and elsewhere. My books include Atomic Assurance: The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation (Cornell, 2018) and Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century (Polity, 2022). I have done work on East Asia but Europe is my primary regional focus, with special emphasis on Central and Northeastern Europe. I have two places that I consider home: Windsor-Detroit and Krakow, Poland.

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On this website, you will find information about my books, monographs, and published articles as well as information on my academic research, teaching, and commentary.
 

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Latest Publications

Non-Aggression Pacts: Context and Explanation​

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International Theory

The existing literature offers contrasting views on the causes and effects of non-aggression pacts. Some scholars contend that these agreements impose audience costs that prevent an ongoing rivalry from escalating to war. Others claim that states use non-aggression pacts to signal to others that their rivalry is over and that their future relations will be peaceful. Scholars disagree as to the impact non-aggression pacts have on violent conflict. I demonstrate that various definitional and coding issues beset the literature, resulting in the incorporation of many agreements that should not be considered as non-aggression pacts ...

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LATEST NEWS

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NEW ARTICLE

28 APRIL 2025

I have a new peer-reviewed article published in International Theory that examines non-aggression pacts. I show that the literature to date has neglected to place these agreements in their proper interwar context and so overlook how certain revisionist states have used them. Read more here.

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NEW BOOK CHAPTER

24 MARCH 2025

I contributed a book chapter that conceptualizes how 'alliances', 'partnerships', and 'alignments' relate to one another, with discussion on the extent to which each form of security cooperation will be a feature of international relations in the foresseable future. Read more here.

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GLOBE & MAIL OP-ED

10 MARCH 2025

Balkan Devlen, Richard Shimooka, and I published an op-ed in Canada's Globe and Mail where we argue that American insularity--rather than Trump's stated annexationist rhetoric--constitutes the real threat to Canadian and allied interests. Read here.

What I am reading now

A big book but a magisterial one, Christopher Clark's Revolutionary Spring is an epic history of the 1848 transnational revolution that broke out across Europe is an excellent read.

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© 2024 by Alexander Lanoszka.

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