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 FORUM
30 AUGUST - 1 SEPTEMBER
I am attending the 2024 GLOBSEC Forum in Prague. I will be helping to launch a report on multi-domain operations that I took the lead in writing. More details about this report are forthcoming.
NEW COLUMN
18 JULY 2024
In my latest column for the Council of Geostrategy, I argue that we should not forget about Belarus and the violence that Lukashenka is perpetrating along its western frontier. He is no mere stooge of Putin and so the UK, NATO, and the EU should act accordingly.
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.