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.
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
GLOBSEC REPORT
18 SEPTEMBER 2024
My GLOBSEC report on multi-domain operations and NATO's Eastern Flank is finally available online. You may access it here. In it, I assess how original MDO threat assessments have held up, determine how local allies consider MDO, and what they can do in their defence plans going forward.
ROK TRANSLATION
13 SEPTEMBER 2024
My Polity book Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century has been translated into Korean and is now available on the market.
A link to the translation is here.
What I am reading now
Each time I read a book by Richard Overy I am in awe of how much he knows and how little I know. Though not an easy read at about 900 pages, Blood and Ruins is a magisterial analysis of the Second World War that offers a provocative, yet compelling thesis about it being imperial.