2012 Graduate Student Fellows in National Security

The Tobin Project awards fellowships annually to graduate students across disciplines and institutions whose research relates to security studies. In monthly forums throughout the academic year, the students present and discuss their work with one another for uniquely interdisciplinary feedback. Below are the 2012 fellows in the National Security program.

 

 

Adam Chilton

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, GOVERNMENT; HARVARD LAW SCHOOL

PROJECT TITLE: Public Opinion, the Laws of War, and Saving Civilians

                                                                                                    

 

 

Christopher Clary

MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: The Politics of Peace: The End of Inter-State Rivalries

 

 

 

Jeffrey Friedman

HARVARD KENNEDY SCHOOL, PUBLIC POLICY

PROJECT TITLE: Breakthrough Problems and Military Strategy

 

 

 

 

Sameer Lalwani

MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: The Wars Within: Explaining State Strategies of Counterinsurgency and Consolidation

 

 

 

Nicholas Miller

MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: The Myth of Nationalist Resistance: A Theory of Collaboration and Insurgency Under Foreign Occupation

 

 

 

Miranda Priebe

MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: Managing the Rise of Regional Challengers: Assessing the Consequences of Mixing Conciliatory and Firm Policies

 

 

Ivan Rasmussen

TUFTS FLETCHER SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

PROJECT TITLE: Rational Nationalism on the Rise: Chinese Public Opinion and Foreign Relations

 

 

 

Joshua Shifrinson

MIT, POLITICAL SCIENCE

PROJECT TITLE: Life on the Downward Slope: Exploitation, Restraint, and Great Power Decline 

 

 

 

Jonathan Snow

BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY, POLITICS

PROJECT TITLE: Signaling Intent: The Use of Diplomacy, Actions, and the Media for Coercion in War

 

 

 

Jesse Tumblin

BOSTON COLLEGE, HISTORY

PROJECT TITLE: Defense Planning and Political Autonomy in the British Empire: The Defence and Imperial Conferences, 1909-1911