Please join Dr. Margaret Kosal for coffee on Monday, October 27th. Dr. Kosal is a professor in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. She will meet you at 10am in the Clough Starbucks. We encourgage you to meet all of our faculty, even if they do not teach courses in your major. Please sign up using the Eventbrite. A password will be emailed to you.

Margaret E. Kosal’s research explores the relationships among technology, strategy, and governance. Her research focuses on two, often intersecting, areas:  reducing the threat of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and understanding the role of emerging technologies for security. 

Her work aims to understand and explain the role of technology and technological diffusion for national security at strategic and operational levels. In the changing post-Cold War environment, the most advanced military power no longer guarantees national or international security in a globalized world in which an increasing number of nation-states and non-state actors have access to new and potentially devastating dual-use capabilities. The long-term goals of her work are to understand the underlying drivers of technological innovation and how technology affects national security and modern warfare. She is interested in both the scholarly, theoretical level discourse and in the development of new strategic approaches and executable policy options to enable US dominance and to limit the proliferation of unconventional weapons.