Access Denied?: Assessing Options for Projecting Airpower into a Contested East Asia

Speakers: Dr. Nicholas Anderson (George Washington University) and Dr. Daryl Press (Dartmouth College)

Date: 25 June 2024

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Nicholas D. Anderson is Assistant Professor of International Affairs at the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University. He was previously a research fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard University. His first book, Inadvertent Expansion: How Peripheral Actors Shape World Politics, will be published in early 2025. His research and other writings have also been published in International Security, International Interactions, Strategic Studies Quarterly, International Relations of the Asia-Pacific, and The Washington Quarterly, among other outlets. He is a co-organizer (with Daryl G. Press) of the Military Force Analysis Seminar Series, a project to revitalize the field of open-source conventional force analysis. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Yale University.

Daryl Press is a Professor of Government at Dartmouth and the Director of Dartmouth’s Institute for Global Security. His research focuses on U.S. foreign policy, deterrence, and the future of warfare. He has published two books, Calculating Credibility (2005) and The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution (2020), and his work has appeared in leading academic journals such as International Security and the American Political Science Review, as well as popular outlets including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and The Atlantic Monthly. Press is the co-founder of the Strategic Forces Bootcamp, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, which teaches foreign policy professionals about the technical underpinnings of the nuclear deterrence mission.  He is also the co-founder of the Seminar on Conventional Force Analysis, which promotes cutting-edge unclassified military analysis. Press received his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.