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About Eleonora Mattiacci
Eleonora Mattiacci is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. She is the author of Volatile States in International Politics (Oxford University Press, 2023), which won the 2025 ISA-ISSS Best Book Award. She is on X (formerly known as Twitter) @ProfEMattiacci.
Eleonora Mattiacci is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Amherst College. She is the author of Volatile States in International Politics (Oxford University Press, 2023), which won the 2025 ISA-ISSS Best Book Award. She is on X (formerly known as Twitter) @ProfEMattiacci.
NBN Episodes hosted by Eleonora:
March 22, 2026
The Political Economy of Security
In his new book, The Political Economy of Security (Princeton University Press, 2026), Stephen Brooks provides a systematic empirical and theoretical …
March 14, 2026
Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons
In 2012, US President Barack Obama stated that the Syrian government’s use of chemical weapons on its population would cross a red line that would req…
March 2, 2026
Global Governance Under Fire
Populist leaders around the world increasingly reject international organizations, decrying them as constraints on state power and rallying followers …
February 7, 2026
Age of Deception
At the heart of cybersecurity lies a paradox: Cooperation makes conflict possible. In Age of Deception (Cornell University Press 2025), Jon R. Lindsay…
January 6, 2026
Weapons in Space
A new and provocative take on the formerly classified history of accelerating superpower military competition in space in the late Cold War and beyond…
December 19, 2025
The Remote Revolution
In The Remote Revolution: Drones and Modern Statecraft (Cornell UP, 2025), Erik Lin-Greenberg shows that drones are rewriting the rules of internatio…
December 2, 2025
Existential Politics
It’s no secret that the Paris Agreement and voluntary efforts to address climate change are failing. Governments have spent three decades crafting int…
November 1, 2025
Polarization and International Politics
Polarization is a defining feature of politics in the United States and many other democracies. Yet although there is much research focusing on the ef…
October 8, 2025
Bureaucracies at War
Why do states start conflicts that they ultimately lose? Why do leaders possess inaccurate expectations of their prospects for victory? Bureaucracies …
September 16, 2025
Great Power, Great Responsibility
In the wake of World War II, the United States leveraged its hegemonic position in the international political system to gradually build a new global …
June 30, 2025
Human Rights for Pragmatists
Human rights are among our most pressing issues today. But rights promoters have reached an impasse in their effort to achieve rights for all. Human R…
June 9, 2025
The Insiders' Game
One of the most widely held views of democratic leaders is that they are cautious about using military force because voters can hold them accountable,…
May 31, 2025
Escalation Dynamics in Cyberspace
To what extent do cyberspace operations increase the risks of escalation between nation-state rivals? Scholars and practitioners have been concerned a…
May 13, 2025
The Rise of Unmanned Warfare
The Rise of Unmanned Warfare: Origins of the Us Autonomous Military Arsenal (Oxford UP, 2023) tells the fascinating story of the people, processes, an…
April 28, 2025
Inadvertent Expansion
Territorial expansion is typically understood as a centrally driven and often strategic activity. But Nicholas D. Anderson’s new book, Inadvertent Exp…
March 12, 2025
Influence without Arms
How does nuclear technology influence international relations? While many books focus on countries armed with nuclear weapons, this volume puts the sp…
February 11, 2025
The Hegemon's Tool Kit
At a moment when the nuclear nonproliferation regime is under duress, Rebecca Davis Gibbons provides a trenchant analysis of the international system …
January 9, 2025
Under the Nuclear Shadow
How can states use military force to achieve their political aims without triggering a catastrophic nuclear war? Among the states facing this dilemma …
December 8, 2024
Leveraging Latency
Over the last seven decades, some states successfully leveraged the threat of acquiring atomic weapons to compel concessions from superpowers. For man…
November 7, 2024
Beyond the Wire
The United States stands at a crossroads in international security. The backbone of its international position for the last 70 years has been the mass…
October 5, 2024
Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
When scholars and policymakers consider how technological advances affect the rise and fall of great powers, they draw on theories that center the mom…
August 28, 2024
Understanding Maritime Security
Whether it is pirates, smugglers, illicit fishing, or disputes in the South China Sea, the oceans are of increasing importance in international securi…
July 13, 2024
Frenemies
Alliances among ideological enemies confronting a common foe, or "frenemy" alliances, are unlike coalitions among ideologically-similar states facing …
June 28, 2024
When the Bombs Stopped
Over the course of the Vietnam War, the United States dropped 500,000 tons of bombs over Cambodia—more than the combined weight of every man, woman, a…