Lisa Langdon Koch @llkoch.bsky.social

I am honored and thrilled that Nuclear Decisions has been named the co-winner of the Robert Jervis Best International Security Book Award for 2023. It's deeply meaningful to me to receive an award named for the late Robert Jervis.

@lmhelmbrecht What is the necklace he’s wearing? It looks like a child made it with initial beads?

Here comes "El Smoke" Andrés Muñoz with a tie game, and two outs in the bottom of the 8th #Mariners

New publication: "Four Days in May: The India-Pakistan Crisis of 2025" up now at the Stimson Center @StimsonCenter . Executive summary here, but link to all 12,000 words and 123 footnotes in the next post.

@catherinemurph_ @lachlanmckn Congrats, Catherine!

I’m excited to share a new publication co-authored with @lachlanmckn on how Russian technological assistance to North Korea could potentially bolster the development of its nuclear program. Read here👇

@tvpaul1 @McGillPoliSci @McGillARTS @McGillREPORTER Congratulations! This award is, of course, so well-deserved. What a great event.

Highly honoured to receive one of ISA’s key awards, the International Security Section's Distinguished Scholar Award for 2025 at the annual convention in Chicago. It was fantastic to hear my fellow travellers from many schools and students, both current and former, making heart-warming statements. Thank you everyone.

@whoisjonchu Congrats!

🚨My new research theorizes and demonstrates a novel mechanism to understand how international organizations legitimize foreign policy: by sending social cues. Please read more in the Open Access online version here! (will write a thread later...)

This talk was 🔥. Can’t wait for the book.

@DouglasBShaw Thanks so much!

Thank you @Koch_LL for sharing your research with us on nuclear threats. In our latest Wednesday Seminar, Lisa asks, “When leaders issue nuclear threats, how are those threats perceived?” She continues to talk about the spectrum of credibility on which these threats may fall and the reactions they inspire.

On the anniversary of Eisenhower’s Atoms for Peace speech, I recommend reading this excellent, recent special issue of the Journal of Cold War Studies. muse.jhu.edu/issue/51175 (My review of the issue is below)

@katie_peach @csisponi Congratulations! I am not at all surprised, having had just a little exposure to your work!

I’m thrilled to announce that I have been selected to be part of the @csisponi Nuclear Scholars Initiative 2025 cohort! I can’t wait to meet this great group and engage with peers and experts on nuclear issues next year! nuclearnetwork.csis.org/programs/nucle…

Grateful for this very kind review of my book by @Hbounassif, whose own book deeply inspired mine: "Solidly grounded in firsthand research, Grewal's work is also comparative and theoretically inclined... a welcome addition...and a must-read" muse.jhu.edu/pub/119/articl…

@mcfuhrmann @Eleni_Ekmek @CUP_PoliSci Congrats, Matt! Looking forward to having it in hand!

It's publication week! Influence Without Arms: The New Logic of Deterrence is now available with @CUP_PoliSci: cambridge.org/9781108824071. The book examines the role of nuclear technology in international relations.

Fall issue is live! In my @IntSecHarvard article I argue that China's rise has shifted the international system back to bipolarity. (ungated article here): direct.mit.edu/isec/article/4…

@aaronbateman22 Congrats!

I am really pleased that the Stanton Foundation has awarded me a grant to work on a project entitled, "U.S. Alliance Dynamics and Nuclear Command and Control Infrastructure." Expect to see work from me in the coming time on the politics of basing NC3 abroad during the Cold War.

Second, @Koch_LL compares national support for the #DeathPenalty in the United States with support for #Nuclear strikes against enemy countries, finding that core beliefs about blame and punishment can influence support for the use of force. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

BREAKING NEWS The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPeacePrize to the Japanese organisation Nihon Hidankyo. This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a world free of nuclear weapons and for demonstrating through witness testimony that nuclear weapons must never be used again. #NobelPrize

Delighted to see my @politybooks Military Alliances in the Twenty-First Century translated into the Korean language. The hard copy looks great! Link: hanulmplus.kr/tot_book/conte…