Reid Pauly is an assistant professor of political science at Brown University and the Dean’s Assistant Professor of Nuclear Security and Policy at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He studies nuclear proliferation and nuclear strategy, coercion, and secrecy in international politics. Pauly is the author of The Art of Coercion: Credible Threats and the Assurance Dilemma (Cornell University Press, 2025). His scholarship has also been published in International Security, International Studies Quarterly, the European Journal of International Relations, and Foreign Affairs.
Pauly earned his PhD from MIT and has held fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He is also a fellow with the Schmidt Futures International Strategy Forum.
