ADAM MOUNT 1777 F ST. NW Washington, DC 20006 ☙ [email protected] office: 202 509-8708 POSITIONS: Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow, the Council on Foreign Relations, 2014-15 Summer Associate, The RAND Corporation, 2012 Research Assistant & Intern, the Council on Foreign Relations, summers 2008–09 EDUCATION: Ph.D. Government, Georgetown University, 2014 Major: International Relations (security); Minor: Philosophy (ethics) Dissertation: Moral Norms and Nuclear Disarmament Committee: Profs. Dan Nexon, Charles Kupchan, Keir Lieber • The dissertation explains U.S. commitments to eliminate its nuclear arsenal as a response to a moral disarmament norm. Cases studies cover the Baruch Plan, McCloyZorin accords, NPT signing, and the Reykjavik summit. M.A. Government, Georgetown University, 2012 B.A. Political Science, Reed College, 2007 BOOK PROJECT: Nuclear Disarmament in the United States • A survey of disarmament politics in the United States, the book will start from early efforts at international control and conclude with future possibilities. It will book will show how evolving thinking about nuclear weapons—especially ethical judgments— has significantly affected nuclear diplomacy, force posture, and arms control agreements. PUBLICATIONS: (selected) A. MOUNT, “Making U.S. Disarmament Commitments Credible,” The Nonproliferation Review 21(3), 2014 (forthcoming) H. KRISTENSEN & A. MOUNT, “Why NATO should eliminate its tactical nukes…,” The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Sept. 3, 2014 A. H. MONTGOMERY & A. MOUNT, “Misestimation: Explaining US Failures to Predict Nuclear Weapons Programs,” Intelligence and National Security 29(3), 2014, pp. 357386 C. KUPCHAN & A. MOUNT, “The Autonomy Rule,” Democracy, Spring 2009 • Reprinted in Russia in Global Affairs (Russia) and Caijing (China), Spring 2009 PUBLICATIONS: (other) A. MOUNT, “Pivotal moment for U.S. nuclear arsenal,” Expert Brief, the Council on Foreign Relations (online), Oct., 2014 A. MOUNT, “A better debate on nuclear disarmament,” Nuclear Scholars Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies, 2014 B. GIEGERICH, D. PUSHKINA & A. MOUNT “Toward a Strategic Partnership? The US and Russia respond to the European Security and Defense Policy,” Security Dialogue 37(3), 2006, pp. 385-407 1 of 3 PRESENTATIONS: A. MOUNT, “Making U.S. Disarmament Commitments Credible,” • The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 26 Sept., 2014 • Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, 18 Dec., 2013 • University of California, San Diego, CA, 17 Aug., 2012 A. MOUNT, “Consequences of nuclear disarmament proposals,” Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 4 Jun., 2014 A. MOUNT, “The new, non-moral nuclear disarmament debate,” • Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, 28 Jun., 2013 • Chatham House, London, U.K., 5 Jun., 2013 • University of California, Washington, DC, 23 Mar., 2013 A. MOUNT, Remarks on the U.S. arms control position, U.K. Project on Nuclear Issues Annual Conference, Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), London, U.K., 6 Jun., 2013 A. MOUNT, “Survey of select academic literature on disarmament and arms control,” Special Briefing on the work of the First Committee of the General Assembly (UNITAR), The United Nations, New York, NY, 3 Oct., 2012 A. MOUNT, “Evaluating Motorized Airborne Concepts,” The RAND Corporation, Washington, DC, 5 Sept., 2012 A. MOUNT, “Moral norms and nuclear disarmament,” International Studies Association Meeting, San Diego, CA, 3 Apr., 2012 A. MOUNT, “Normativity in international relations,” International Studies Association Northeast Meeting, Providence, RI, 5 Nov., 2011 A. H. MONTGOMERY & A. MOUNT, “Political Distortions of Intelligence Estimates: How Little Is Known About Nuclear Proliferation,” • King’s College, London, Jun., 2010 • Reed College, Portland, OR, 6 Sept., 2006 • American Political Science Association Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 2 Sept., 2006 C. KUPCHAN & A. MOUNT, “The Autonomy Rule,” • Georgetown University, Mortara Center, Washington, DC, 20 Apr., 2009 • The New America Foundation, Washington, DC, 18 Mar., 2009 • Council on Foreign Relations, The United States and the Future of Global Governance Roundtable Series, Washington, DC, 13 Apr., 2009 A. MOUNT, Comments on T.V. Paul, The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons, Georgetown University International Theory and Research Seminar, 21 Sept., 2009 A. MOUNT, Comments on Daniel Deudney, Bounding Power, Georgetown University International Theory and Research Seminar, 12 Jan., 2009 A. MOUNT, “State Agency as Reflexive Reason” • International Studies Association Northeast Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 5 Oct., 2008 • Midwest Political Science Association Meeting, Chicago, IL, 6 Apr., 2007 D. PUSHKINA & A. MOUNT, ‘Russia’s Place in European Security’ the Russian-American Seminar, State University of St. Petersburg, Russia, 17 May, 2006 2 of 3 WORKING PAPERS: TRAINING: TEACHING: * lectured H. KRISTENSEN & A. MOUNT, On tactical nuclear weapons (2014, policy: draft) A. MOUNT, “Latent deterrence” (2014, P.S.: 10k words) A. MOUNT, “Normativity in international relations” (2011, theory: 7,665 words) A. MOUNT, “Forms of political combination” (2009, theory: 7,679 words) Nuclear Scholars Initiative, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 2013 Public Policy and Nuclear Threats (PPNT), University of California, San Diego, 2012 Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (SWAMOS), Columbia University, 2010 Georgetown University graduate fellowship, 2007-2012 Alta S. Corbett Grant (with Alexander H. Montgomery), 2006 Reed College Undergraduate Initiative Grant, 2006 Student Conference on United States Affairs at West Point, 2005 Instructor, Georgetown University Department of Philosophy PHIL 129: Global Justice Theory, Fall 2011 (50 students) Teaching Assistant, Georgetown University Department of Government GOVT 006: Introduction to International Relations - Matthew Kroenig, Fall 2008,* 2009,* 2012* (50 students) - Celeste Wallander, Fall 2007 (75 students) - Victor Cha, Spring 2009 (40 students) - Keir Lieber, Spring 2010* (35 students) - Andrew Bennett, Fall 2010, Spring 2011,* 2012, 2013* (45 students) GOVT 426: Arms Control in the Middle East - Avi Beker, Spring 2008 3 of 3
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