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 also a member of the Réseau d'Analyse Stratégique and a Visiting Professor at the College of Europe, Natolin.
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.
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.
Latest Publications
LATEST NEWS
NEW PUBLICATION
5 APRIL 2024
Lauren Sukin and I have a new article in International Studies Quarterly that draws on survey evidence collected in March 2022 to examine how respondents in Poland, Romania, and the three Baltic countries evaluated U.S. reassurance measures in the context of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
NEW MLI REPORT
2 APRIL 2024
I am very pleased to share a new report that I published for the Macdonald-Laurier Institute with Toms Rostoks. This report assesses the Canadian-led enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup in Latvia and makes various policy recommendations. Read more here.
COLLEGE OF EUROPE
APRIL 2024
I will be back in Warsaw for two weeks in mid-April to teach a course at the College of Europe in Natolin on conflict and peace in the post-1991 Europe and Central Asia. Nie mogę się doczekać kiedy będę na miejscu.
What I am reading now
Maria Popova and Oxana Shevel have written an excellent book that anyone interested in East Central Europe should read. Their basic argument is that Ukrainian society embarked upon a path of democratic reform, which incurred the wrath of a Russia that still wishes to dominate that country.