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Assistant Professor
Debak Das is an Assistant Professor at the Josef Korbel School of International Studies at the University of Denver. His research interests lie at the intersection of international security, nuclear proliferation, crises, and international history. His research and writing have been published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Global Studies Quarterly, H-Diplo Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum, International Studies Review, Political Science Quarterly, Research and Politics, Texas National Security Review, The Washington Post, The Wire, Lawfare, and War on the Rocks.
Debak earned his PhD in Government from Cornell University in 2021. He was the MacArthur Nuclear Security Pre-Doctoral Fellow in 2019-2020, and a Stanton Nuclear Security Post-Doctoral Fellow in 2021-2022, at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. Debak holds an M.Phil. in Diplomacy and Disarmament, and an M.A. in Politics (with specialization in International Relations) from the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. He received his B.A. in History (Honors) from Presidency College, Kolkata, India. Debak is also an affiliate at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University, the Centre de Recherche Internationales (CERI) at Sciences Po, Paris, and at the Council for Strategic and Defense Research, New Delhi.
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International Security
"The Courtroom of World Opinion: Bringing the International Audience into Nuclear Crises" Global Studies Quarterly, Volume 1, Issue 4, December 2021, ksab028.
"Standard Operating Barriers in International Studies" International Studies Review, Volume 26, Issue 3, September 2024, viae038_2.
"Warring from the Virtual to the Real: Assessing the Public's Threshold for War over Cyber Security." Research and Politics 4 (2) (June 2017), 18. (with Sarah Kreps)
INTS 4706 Nuclear Weapons in Global Politics
INTS 4605 Emerging Issues in International Security
INTS 2605 Nuclear Weapons in International Security
Ph.D., Government, Cornell University
M.A., Politics (with specialization in International Relations), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
M.Phil., Diplomacy and Disarmament, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
B.A., History (Hons.), Presidency College, Kolkata
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