Michael Cohen
Senior Lecturer
Qualifications
B.Ec. Hons I University of Sydney 2004
M.A. University of British Columbia 2006
Ph.D. University of British Columbia 2012
BOOKS
-When Proliferation Causes Peace: The Psychology of Nuclear Crises Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, September 2017 Reviewed in Foreign Affairs, Political Science Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, Political Psychology, The Non-Proliferation Review, H-Diplo
-North Korea and Nuclear Weapons: Entering the New Era of Deterrence (edited with Sung Chull Kim) Washington D.C.: Georgetown University Press, April 2017 Reviewed in Foreign Affairs, Asian Security, International Affairs, Pacific Affairs, Journal of Asian Studies, The New York Review of Books, RUSI Journal, Choice, Boston Globe, H-Diplo, HUMO
PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL ARTICLES
–“Different Fears, Same Alliance: Multilateralism, Assurance and the Origins of the 1951 United States-New Zealand-Australia Alliance” Journal of Peace Research, forthcoming
-“Strategic Surprise, Nuclear Proliferation and U.S. Foreign Policy” (with Aaron Rapport) European Journal of International Relations, Vol. 26 Iss. 2 2020 344-371
-“Political Parties, Australian Foreign Policy and the U.S. Alliance: 1976-2016” Asian Security, forthcoming
-“Fear and Loathing: When Nuclear Proliferation Emboldens” The Journal of Global Security Studies Vol. 3 Iss. 1 (January 2018) 56-71
-“Denial in Australian Strategic Thought” (with Adam Lockyer) Australian Journal of International Affairs 2017 Vol. 71 Iss. 4 423-439
-“Live and Learn: Availability Biases and Beliefs about Military Power,” Foreign Policy Analysis Vol. 13 Iss. 4 (October 2017) 968-985
-“How Nuclear Proliferation Causes Conflict: The Case for Optimistic Pessimism” The Non-Proliferation Review 2016 Vol. 23 Iss. 3-4 425-442
-“Doubts Down Under: American Extended Deterrence, Australia, and the 1999 East Timor Crisis, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific (with Andrew O’Neil) Vol. 15 No. 1 (Spring 2015) 27-52
-“Fear and Learning in Tehran: What Recent Psychological Research Reveals about Nuclear Crises” Strategic Studies Quarterly Vol. 9 No. 1 (Spring 2015) 119-138 reprinted in 2016 United States Strategic Command Deterrence Symposium Special Edition Perspectives on Deterrence in the Twenty-First Century
-“How Nuclear South Asia is Like Cold War Europe: The Stability-Instability Paradox Revisited,” The Non-Proliferation Review, Vol. 20 No. 3 November 2013
-“North Korea, Nuclear Weapons and No Good Options? A Controlled Path to Peace,” Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, Vol. 1 No. 2 2013 1-17
PEER REVIEWED BOOK CHAPTERS
-“The Availability Heuristic and Foreign Policy Decision Making,” in David P. Redlawsk (ed.)_ The Oxford Encyclopedia of Political Psychology,_ forthcoming
-“Introduction: A New Challenge, A New Debate,” (with Sung Chull Kim), in Cohen and Kim (eds.) Nuclear North Korea: Entering the New Era of Deterrence. Georgetown University Press
-“North Korea, Nuclear Weapons and No Good Options? A Controlled Path to Peace,” in Cohen and Kim (eds.) Nuclear North Korea: Entering the New Era of Deterrence. Georgetown University Press
-“Conclusion: Deterrence and Beyond,” (with Sung Chull Kim), in Cohen and Kim (eds.) Nuclear North Korea: Entering the New Era of Deterrence. Georgetown University Press
-“Mission Impossible? Influencing Iranian and Libyan Sponsorship of Terrorism,” in Alex Wilner and Andreas Wenger (eds), Deterring Terrorism: Theory and Practice (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2012) 252-272
-“India and the NPT: Power, Legitimacy and Legality,” in Wade L. Huntley and Karthika Sasikumar (eds.) Nuclear Cooperation with India: New Challenges, New Opportunities, 90-95. Vancouver: Simons Centre, 2006
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
“Biden can do better than Donald Trump on North Korea, but he can’t bring Denuclearization,” The National Interest, August 19 2020
“Review of Thomas K. Robb and David James Gill, Divided Allies: Strategic Cooperation Against the Communist Threat in the Asia-Pacific During the Early Cold War (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2019), H-Diplo
“North Korean Nuclear Weapons: Posture, Submarines and Deterrence,” in Rory Medcalf, Katherine Mansted, Stephan Fruhling and James Goldrick (eds.), The Future of the Undersea Deterrent: A Global Survey (ANU: National Security College, 2020) 48-50
“Kim Jong Un might just wait out America,” The National Interest, May 16 2020 “How a U.S.-North Korea crisis could unfold if Kim Jong Un Dies,” The National Interest April 27 2020
“Review of Stephen J. Cimbala, Getting Nuclear Weapons Right: Managing Danger and Avoiding Disaster,” RUSI Journal
“Review of ‘Global Nuclear Order Diplomacy and Statecraft Vol. 29. No. 1 March 2018 Special Issue,” H-Diplo
“The Hanoi Summit: We Asked Michael Cohen What comes Next in U.S.-North Korea Relations,” The National Interest, March 12 2019
“North Korea and America’s Second Summit: Here’s What Michael Cohen thinks will happen,” The National Interest, February 6 2019
“Of Power, Proliferation and Psychology,” Political Psychology (with Chris Fettweis) forthcoming
“And Now for the Hard Part,” The Daily Telegraph (Australia), June 14, 2018
“Review of Terence Roehrig, Japan, South Korea, and the United States Nuclear Umbrella: Deterrence After the Cold War,” Korea Observer, 2018
“The Effects of Acquiring Nuclear Weapons,” International Security Vol. 41 No. 1 2016 186-190
“China: Between U.S. Sanctions and North Korea” The Interpreter, March 21 2016
“Australia’s possible strategy shift on Syria is a nod to Russia’s influence,” The Conversation, October 1 2015 (with Adam Lockyer)
“Atomangreb. Baltikum ikke truet af Rusland,” Politiken, April 17 2015
“The ties that bind us to China and the US,” Australian Financial Review, September 4 2013 (with Andrew O’Neil)
“Obama’s Syria Strategy?” Global Policy Journal, August 3 2012
“Response to Brooks, Ikenberry and Wohlforth, ‘Don’t Come Home, America: The case Against Retrenchment,” H-Diplo, August 12 2013
“Obama’s Syria strategy is to weaken Iran,” Berlingske, July 27 2013, p.27 (in Danish)
“What Happens when Iran Gets the Bomb?” Global Policy Journal, May 8 2012
“Don’t Issue Iran a Red Line Yet,” Global Policy Journal, September 12 2012
“The Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis for Engaging Iran,” Global Policy Journal, November 30 2012
“Pyongyang’s Push: North Korea, Nukes and No Good Options, Global Policy Journal, March 6 2013
“Do Small Arsenals Deter?” in International Security 32 (3) 2008 208-210
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