Joseph O'Mahoney

Email:
j.p.a.omahoney@reading.ac.uk
Phone:
100
Job title:
Associate Professor

Responsibilities:

Director of Postgraduate Research

Module convenor for:

Politics of Nuclear Weapons (PO3NUK)
Qualitative Methods for International Relations (PIM85)

Office

Room 290

Building location

Edith Morley

Areas of interest

My research primarily examines questions of how norms and rules about war, the use of force, and nuclear weapons, affect state behaviour and how they change, persist and are manipulated. I have a particular interest in how the international community reacts to norm violations.

I am currently writing a book on how war has changed since war became illegitimate in the early 20th century.

Postgraduate supervision

I am interested in supervising projects on international norm dynamics, the changing character of war, and the politics of nuclear weapons.

Research centres and groups

Member of the Centre for Global Security and Governance

Background

Previously I was a Stanton Nuclear Security Junior Faculty Fellow at MIT's Security Studies Programme, and I have taught at Seton Hall University, Brown University and George Washington University.

Academic qualifications

PhD, George Washington University

Awards and honours

My work has been funded by the Leverhulme Trust, Stanton Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, the Josephine de Karman Fellowship Trust, and the Loughran Foundation. I was awarded the McElvany Nuclear Nonproliferation Prize in 2020.

Websites/blogs

Dr Joseph O'Mahoney's personal website