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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 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.
 

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Latest Publications

Credibility in Crisis: How Patrons Reassure Their Allies

with Lauren Sukin

International Studies Quarterly

How do citizens of US allies assess different reassurance strategies? This article investigates the effects of US reassurance policies on public opinion in allied states. We design and conduct a survey experiment in five Central–Eastern European states—Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, and Romania—in March 2022. Set against the backdrop of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this experiment asked respondents to evaluate four types of reassurance strategies, each a critical tool in US crisis response policy: military deployments, diplomatic summitry, economic sanctions, and public reaffirmations of security guarantees. The international security literature typically values capabilities for their deterrence and reassurance benefits, while largely dismissing public reaffirmations as “cheap talk” and economic sanctions as being ineffective. Yet we find preferences for the use of economic sanctions and public statements as reassurance strategies during crises, in part because these approaches help states manage escalation risks.

LATEST NEWS

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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.

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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.

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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.

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