ADAM MOUNT
1777 F ST. NW
Washington, DC 20006
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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
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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
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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
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