On 2 April 2018 from 1200-1300, the NSA Department will host Dr. Maria Rost Rublee of Monash University in Melbourne. She will give a talk titled "Nuclear Norms in Flux." Today, nuclear politics seem more disquieting than ever, from negotiating the Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty to North Korea’s operationalization of its nuclear program.  In this talk, Dr. Rublee will discuss the deeper changes in the normative underpinnings of global nuclear governance, as well as the possible consequences for nuclear nonproliferation and prevention of nuclear war. 

Dr. Maria Rost Rublee is an associate professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia and Chair of the International Security Studies Section of the International Studies Association (ISA). Her work has been published in a variety of international journals, including International Studies Review, Contemporary Security Policy, Comparative Political Studies, Pacific Focus, and the Nonproliferation Review.  Rublee has received grants from the United States Institute of Peace, the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the ISA, the Asia New Zealand Foundation, and the Japan Foundation. Her book, Nonproliferation Norms: Why States Choose Nuclear Restraint, received the Alexander George Book Award for best book in political psychology.