Security Assistant
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ALEXANDER
ALEXANDER H. MONTGOMERY
Curriculum Vitae September 2012
Associate Professor, Political Science work 503-***-****
Reed College, Vollum 114 fax 503-***-****
**** ** ********* **** abpmdb@r.postjobfree.com
Portland OR 97202-8199 www.reed.edu/~ahm
EMPLOYMENT
Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy), Washington, DC
Policy Analyst/Technical Advisor, Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction, Global Strategic
Affairs, September 2012 present
Reed College, Portland, OR
Associate Professor of Political Science, September 2011 present
Assistant Professor of Political Science, September 2006 August 2011
CISAC, Stanford University
Visiting Assistant Professor, Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC), Stanford
University, 2008 9
Graduate Research Assistant for Professor Scott Sagan, Ambassador George Bunn, and Dr. Lynn
Eden (Summer 1999 Summer 2003)
Center for Nuclear and Toxic Waste Management, University of California, Berkeley
Graduate Research Assistant for Professors Gene Rochlin and Per Peterson for writing Master's
Thesis (Fall 1998 Spring 1999)
Center for International Security Affairs, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Graduate Research Assistant for Dr. Steve Gitomer (Summer 1998)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Summer Student (Summer 1996), then Research Associate (Fall 1996 Spring 1998) in the Physics
Division working under Dr. J. Frederic Kral
EDUCATION
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
PhD in Political Science, January 2006; MA in Sociology, January 2003
University of California, Berkeley, CA
MA in Energy and Resources, June 1999
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
BA in Physics with Subject and General Honors, June 1996
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS, AND HONORS
Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in Nuclear Security, 2012 2013
Faculty Development Awards, Reed College, 2006 2011
Bernard Goldhammer Grant for Research on Economics and Natural Resources. International
Environmental Politics: The State of the Subfield (with Adrienne R. Lane), Summer 2010
Competitive Paid Leave Award, Reed College, 2008 9
Montgomery curriculum vitae, page 1 of 8
Alta Corbett Grant for Research on Public Policy Issues. Iranian Nuclear Actions: 2003
2007 (with Brian J. Radzinsky). Reed College, Summer 2007
Alta Corbett Grant for Research on Public Policy Issues. Misunderestimation: Explaining US
Failures to Predict Nuclear Weapons Programs (with Adam J. Mount). Reed College, Summer
2006
Post Doctoral Fellowship, CISAC, Stanford University, 2005 6
Pre Doctoral Fellowship, Managing the Atom Project (MTA) and International Security Program
(ISP), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA), Kennedy School of
Government, Harvard University 2003 5
Graduate Research Fellowship, National Science Foundation, 1999 2003
PUBLICATIONS
Alexander H. Montgomery, Stop Helping Me: When Nuclear Assistance Impedes Nuclear
Programs, The Nuclear Renaissance and International Security, ed. Adam Stulberg and Matt
Fuhrmann, forthcoming from Stanford University Press, Stanford, CA, 2013
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and Alexander H. Montgomery, War, Trade, and Distrust: Why Trade
Agreements Don t Always Keep the Peace, Conflict Management and Peace Science 29(3), July 2012,
pp. 257 278. doi:10.1177/0738894212443342
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Miles Kahler, and Alexander H. Montgomery, Network Analysis for
International Relations, International Organization 63(3), Summer 2009, pp. 559 592. doi:
10.1017/S0020818309090195
Alexander H. Montgomery and Scott D. Sagan, The Perils of Predicting Proliferation, Journal of
Conflict Resolution 53(2), April 2009, pp. 302 328. doi:10.1177/0022002708330581
Revised and reprinted in Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation, ed. Matthew Kroenig, Erik
Gartzke, and Robert Rauchhaus, Routledge, London, UK, 2011. ISBN 978**********
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and Alexander H. Montgomery, Globalization and the Power Politics of
International Economic Networks, chapter 2 in Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance,
ed. Miles Kahler, Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2009. ISBN 978**********
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and Alexander H. Montgomery, Power Or Plenty: How Do International
Trade Institutions Affect Economic Sanctions? Journal of Conflict Resolution 52(2), April 2008, pp.
213 242. doi:10.1177/0022002707313689
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and Alexander H. Montgomery, The Hegemon's Purse: No Economic
Peace between Democracies, Journal of Peace Research 45(1), January 2008, pp. 111 120. doi:
10.1177/0022343307084926
Alexander H. Montgomery, Proliferation Networks in Theory and Practice, Strategic Insights 5(6),
July 2006.
Reprinted in Globalization and WMD Proliferation: Terrorism, Transnational Networks, and International
Security, ed. James A. Russell and James J. Wirtz, Routledge, London, UK, 2008. ISBN
Montgomery curriculum vitae, page 2 of 8
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and Alexander H. Montgomery, Power Positions: International
Organizations, Social Networks, and Conflict, Journal of Conflict Resolution 50(1), February 2006,
pp. 3 27. doi:10.1177/0022002705281669
Alexander H. Montgomery, Ringing in Proliferation: How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
Network, International Security 30(2), Fall 2005, pp. 153 187. doi:10.1162/016228805775124543,
Reprinted in Going Nuclear: Nuclear Proliferation and International Security in the 21st Century, ed. MIT
Press, Cambridge, MA, 2010. ISBN 978**********
Book Reviews
Alexander H. Montgomery, Exporting the Bomb: Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear
Weapons, by Matthew Kroenig, Political Science Quarterly 126(1), Spring 2011, pp.147 148
Ongoing Projects
Alexander H. Montgomery, Atomic Misconceptions: Why Common Assumptions about Nuclear
Weapons are not only Wrong, but Dangerous, book project, proposal available
Alexander H. Montgomery, You're Doing It Wrong: Competence as a Barrier to Nuclear Weapons
Acquisition
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and Alexander H. Montgomery, Influential Institutions: Network
Centrality, International Organizations, and State Behavior
Alexander H. Montgomery and Adam J. Mount, Misunderestimation: Explaining US Failures to
Predict Nuclear Weapons Programs, part of the Intelligence and Nuclear Proliferation project (Wyn
Bowen, King s College London)
Alexander H. Montgomery, Social Network Analysis and Relationalism: Pathologies and
Potentials, part of the Relational Turn in the Study of World Politics project (Daniel H. Nexon,
Georgetown; Patrick Thaddeus Jackson, American)
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
Invited Talks
You're Doing It Wrong: Competence as a Barrier to Nuclear Weapons Acquisition, Policy
Implications of New Social Scientific Research on Nuclear Proliferation Workshop (Washington
D.C.: December 15 16, 2011)
Network Analysis: What it is, What it isn t, and How you do it, presentation at the Seventh Annual
ISA-Northeast Graduate Student Workshop on Interpretive and Relational Research
Methodologies (Providence, RI: November 5, 2011)
Causes of Nuclear Proliferation, IGCC Public Policy & Nuclear Threats 2011 Summer Training
Workshop (La Jolla, CA: August 15, 2011)
Sanctions and Nonproliferation, Great Decisions Series, World Affairs Council of Oregon,
Portland State (Portland, OR: January 20, 2011)
Misunderestimation: Explaining US Failures to Predict Nuclear Weapons Programs, (with Adam J.
Mount), paper presented at the Conference on Intelligence and Nuclear Proliferation (London,
UK: June 3 5, 2010)
Stop Helping Me: When Nuclear Assistance Impedes Nuclear Programs, paper presented at the
Nuclear Renaissance and International Security Workshop (Atlanta, GA: February 1, 2010)
Montgomery curriculum vitae, page 3 of 8
Network Analysis for International Relations, (with Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and Miles Kahler)
paper presented at the CISAC Social Science Seminar Series (Stanford, CA: February 26, 2009),
the Stanford IR Workshop (Stanford, CA: March 3, 2009), and the Berkeley MIRTH Seminar
Series (Berkeley, CA: April 20, 2009)
Ticking Time Bomb or Fizzle? Exploding Five Myths about the North Korean Nuclear Crisis,
paper presented at the PISP Workshop (November 28, 2006)
Ten myths about the North Korean nuclear crisis, (Workshop, Reed College, October 12, 2006)
A Tale of Two Crises: The Past, Present, and Possible Future of US DPRK Nuclear Dynamics,
paper presented at the CISAC Social Science Seminar Series (Stanford, CA: October 13, 2005)
Proliferation Determinism or Pragmatism? How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb Network, paper
presented at the CISAC Social Science Seminar Series (Stanford, CA: February 24, 2005)
A Tale of Two Crises: The Dynamics of North Korean Nuclear Negotiation, paper presented at
the BCSIA MTA Seminar Series (June 8, 2004)
The Inevitability of Revisionism? North Korean Responses to US Socialization Attempts, paper
presented at the BCSIA ISP Fellows Seminar (February 19, 2004)
Socializing States: The 'Roguification' of States through US Foreign Policy, paper presented at the
CISAC Social Science Seminar Series (Stanford, CA: March 13, 2003) and the BCSIA MTA
Seminar Series (November 5, 2003)
Beliefs, Knowledge, and Confidence in Nuclear Weapons Science without Nuclear Testing, talk
given at workshop Computation, Visualization, and Changing Professional Identities, MIT
Initiative on Technology and Self (MIT, September 18, 2003)
What is network analysis and how can it help us understand international conflict and
cooperation? (with Dan Nexon and Erik Voeten), paper presented at the CISAC Social Science
Seminar Series (Stanford, CA: February 7, 2002)
Rethinking Social Inquiry: Beyond the Qualitative Quantitative Divide? (with Emilie M. Hafner-
Burton) paper presented at the CISAC Social Science Seminar Series (Stanford, CA: January 31,
2002)
Reconstructing Reliability: Confidence in Nuclear Weapons under Science Based Stockpile
Stewardship, paper presented at CISAC Social Science Seminar Series (Stanford, CA: October
7, 1999); the Center for Nuclear and Toxic Waste Management (Berkeley, CA: October 14,
1999); and Lockheed Martin Research & Development Labs (Palo Alto, CA: April 6, 2000)
Conference Presentations
You're Doing It Wrong: Competence as a Barrier to Nuclear Weapons Acquisition, paper
presented at the 53rd annual convention of the International Studies Association (San Diego,
CA: April 2012) and the Policy Implications of New Social Scientific Research on Nuclear
Proliferation Workshop (Washington, DC, December 2011)
Centrality in International Politics, (with Emilie M. Hafner-Burton), paper presented at the 3rd
annual Political Networks Conference (Duke University, Durham, NC: May 2010)
Globalization and the Social Power Politics of International Economic Networks, (with Emilie M.
Hafner-Burton), paper presented at the 50th annual convention of the International Studies
Association (New York, NY: February 2009)
Montgomery curriculum vitae, page 4 of 8
Quantitative Social Network Analysis and Relationalism: Pathologies and Potentials, paper
presented at the 50th annual convention of the International Studies Association (New York,
NY: February 2009)
Network Analysis for International Relations, (with Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and Miles Kahler)
paper presented at the 1st annual Political Networks Conference (Cambridge, MA: June 2008)
and the 104th Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association (Boston, MA:
August 2008)
Discussant, Relationalism in the Study of International Relations, roundtable at the 49th annual
convention of the International Studies Association (San Francisco, CA: March 2008)
Power Or Plenty: How do International Trade Institutions Affect Economic Sanctions? (with
Emilie Hafner-Burton) paper presented at the 48th annual convention of the International
Studies Association (Chicago, IL: February 2007)
The New Power Politics of International Organizations: Social Structural Inequality in the
International System, (with Emilie Hafner-Burton) paper presented at the 102nd annual
meeting of the American Political Science Association (Philadelphia, PA: September 2006)
Misunderestimation: Explaining US Failures to Predict Nuclear Weapons Programs, (with Adam J.
Mount) paper presented at the 102nd annual meeting of the American Political Science
Association (Philadelphia, PA: September 2006)
Structural Inequality in the International System: The Growth of International Organization
Networks, paper presented at the University of Toronto workshop Networked Politics:
Agency, Legitimacy, and Power, (Toronto, ON: May 2006)
Prestige or Isolation? Towards A Network Analysis of Nuclear Proliferation, paper presented at
the 64th annual national conference of the Midwest Political Science Association (Chicago, IL:
April 2006)
Power Or Plenty: Do International Trade Institutions Affect Economic Sanctions? (with Emilie
Hafner-Burton) paper presented at the 47th annual convention of the International Studies
Association (San Diego, CA: March 2006)
Proliferation Networks in Theory and Practice, paper presented at the Naval Postgraduate School
conference Globalization and WMD Proliferation Networks: Challenges to U.S.
Security, (Monterey, CA: June 2005)
Proliferation Determinism or Pragmatism? How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb Network, paper
presented at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual National Conference (Chicago,
IL: April 2005)
War, Trade, and Envy: Why Trade Agreements Don t Always Keep the Peace, (with Emilie
Hafner-Burton) paper presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention
(Honolulu, HI: March 2005)
A Tale of Two Crises: US DPRK Nuclear Dynamics, paper presented at the American Political
Science Association Annual Meeting (Chicago, IL: September 2004)
Discussant, Differentiating IGOs: Theoretical Considerations, Empirical Implications, roundtable
at the Midwest Political Science Association Annual National Conference (Chicago, IL: April
2004)
Montgomery curriculum vitae, page 5 of 8
Are States Like Children? International Organizations, Social Networks, and Conflict, paper (with
Emilie Hafner-Burton) presented at the International Studies Association Annual Convention
(Montreal, Quebec: March 2004)
Power, Influence, and Prestige: International Governmental Organizations as Social Networks,
paper (with Emilie Hafner-Burton) presented at the International Studies Association Annual
Convention (Portland, OR: March 2003)
Socializing States: Groups in the International System, 1970 1999, paper presented at the
Graduate Student section of the MacArthur Consortium Workshop Who Governs in Global
Governance? (Madison, WI: April 2002)
Cooperation Under Fire: Institutional and Cultural Dynamics during War, paper presented at the
International Studies Association Convention (New Orleans, LA: March 2002)
WORKSHOPS
IGCC Public Policy & Nuclear Threats 2012 Summer Training Workshop (UC San Diego, La Jolla,
CA: August, 2012)
The New Power Politics: Networks, Governance and Global Security (53rd Annual Meeting of the
International Studies Association, San Diego, CA: March 31, 2012)
Policy Implications of New Social Scientific Research on Nuclear Proliferation Workshop
(Washington D.C.: December 15 16, 2011)
ISA-Northeast Graduate Student Workshop on Interpretive and Relational Research Methodologies
(Providence, RI: November 5, 2012)
IGCC Public Policy & Nuclear Threats 2011 Summer Training Workshop (UC San Diego, La Jolla,
CA: August, 2011)
Nuclear Renaissance and International Security (Center for International Strategy, Technology, and
Policy, Sam Nunn School of International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta,
GA: February, 2010)
Predicting Proliferation (103rd Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association,
Chicago, IL: September, 2007)
Networked Politics: Agency, Legitimacy, and Power (The Munk Centre for International Studies,
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON: May 11 13, 2006)
IGOs in Action (University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA: March 26, 2006)
Changing Face of Proliferation Workshop (CSIS Harvard University MIT, Cambridge, MA: May
2005)
Managing the Atom/Korea Society, The Nuclear Issue on the Korean Peninsula: A Congressional
Dialogue (Cambridge, MA: October 15, 2004)
New Approaches to Cooperative Security Workshop (University of Maryland Advanced Methods of
Cooperative Security Program, Queenstown, MD: June 2004)
Managing the Atom/Korea Society, The Nuclear Issue on the Korean Peninsula: Prospects and
Possibilities (Cambridge, MA: December 19, 2003)
Summer Institute on Conducting Archival Research (George Washington University Cold War
Group, Washington, DC: June 2003)
Montgomery curriculum vitae, page 6 of 8
New Approaches to Cooperative Security Workshop (University of Maryland Advanced Methods of
Cooperative Security Program, Queenstown, MD: June 2003)
Qualitative Methods Institute, Consortium for Qualitative Research Methodology (Phoenix, AZ:
January 2002)
CISAC workshop Preventing Nuclear War in South Asia, (Bangkok, Thailand: August 2001)
MacArthur Consortium Summer Institute: A New Human Rights Agenda? New Dimensions in
Human Rights Advocacy. (Madison, WI: June 2001)
MacArthur Consortium Workshop: Gender, the Military, and War: Scholarship and Policy
Implications. (Stanford, CA: April 2001)
Summer Workshop on Analysis of Military Operations and Strategy (Columbia University Institute
of War and Peace Studies: July 2000)
MacArthur Consortium Workshop: New Approaches to Security: Organizational Theory and
International History. (Stanford, CA: March 2000)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Reed College
POL 240, Introduction to International Politics (Fall 2006, 2007, 2009, 2010, Spring 2012)
POL 358, Strategy, War, and Politics (Spring 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011)
POL 359, Weapons, Technology, and War (Spring 2008, 2010, Fall 2011)
POL 372, International Environmental Politics (Spring 2011, Fall 2011)
POL 373, Global Ecological Politics (Spring 2007)
POL 422, Nuclear Politics (Fall 2007, 2009, 2010, Spring 2012)
Political Science Department, Stanford University
Visiting Assistant Professor, Politics of Nuclear Proliferation (Winter 2009)
Acting Instructor, Victory and Defeat: How States Win Wars (Summer 2003)
Mentor TA, Strategy, War, and Politics (Spring 2001)
Mentor TA, International Security in a Changing World (Winter 2001)
Teaching Assistant for International Politics (Fall 2000)
CISAC, Stanford University
Head TA, CISAC Interschool Honors Program in International Security Studies (Fall 2002
Spring 2003)
Head TA/Lecturer, Summer Institute on Contemporary Issues in International Security
(Summer 2002)
Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley
Head Graduate Student Instructor for Conceptual Foundations of Physics (Fall 1997 Spring
1998)
PHYSICS PUBLICATIONS
Implementation and cosmic ray test results of the Level 1 charged particle trigger for the BaBar
detector, A. Berenyi et al. IEEE NSS Proceedings for the 1999 Santa Fe meeting
Culture, Credibility, and Confidence: Factors of Success in US Russian Lab to Lab Interactions,
Los Alamos Unclassified Report LA UR 98 5258 (August 1998)
Design and Implementation for the Level 1 Charged Particle Trigger of the BaBar Detector, A
Real Time Transverse Momentum Discriminator for the BaBar Level 1 Trigger System, A
Montgomery curriculum vitae, page 7 of 8
Binary Link Tracker Module for the BaBar Level 1 Drift Chamber Trigger, Continuously Live
Image Processor for Drift Chamber Track Segment Finding, all A. Berenyi et al. IEEE NSS
Proceedings for the 1998 Toronto meeting
Concept and Design for the Level 1 Charged Particle Trigger of the BaBar Detector, J. F. Kral et
al., CHEP Proceedings for the 1998 FNAL meeting
Level 1 Trigger Efficiency, Rate and Event Time Jitter Simulation Results, S.K. Gehrig, J.F. Kral,
A.H. Montgomery (LBNL, Berkeley) SLAC BABAR NOTE 338 (December 1996)
Measuring Event Time to an RMS of 10 ns with Drift Chamber Trigger Segments, S.K.Gehrig,
R.C.Jared, J.F.Kral, M.E.Levi, A.H.Montgomery (LBNL, Berkeley) SLAC BABAR NOTE 319
(August 1996)
SERVICE
Administrative Positions
Faculty Advisor, Student Judicial Board and Sexual Misconduct Board, 2011 2012
Public Policy Lecture Series Director, Reed College, 2011 2012
Reed College Faculty Committees
Computing Policy (2011 2012)
International and Comparative Policy Studies (2009 12, chair 2010 2012)
Environmental Studies (2006 8, 2009 11)
Fellowships and Awards (2006 8, 2009 11)
Web Policy (2007 8, 2010 2011)
Programming
sna: Tools for Social Network Analysis http://erzuli.ss.uci.edu/R.stuff
Reviewer
International Organization (2012 ); Social Networks, Contemporary Security Policy, Climatic
Change, Cambridge University Press (2011 ); International Political Science Review, Political
Science Quarterly, Millennium, Politics & Policy, National Science Foundation (2010 ); Chinese
Journal of International Politics, International Interactions, Political Analysis, Foreign Policy
Analysis, Review of International Organizations, Journal of International Relations and
Development, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Routledge (2009 ); International Theory, Journal
of Politics, International Studies Association Compendium, International Studies Quarterly
(2008 ); International Political Sociology, Rowman & Littlefield (2007 ); Security Studies,
Journal of Peace Research (2006 ); American Political Science Review (2005 ); International
Security (2004 )
Faculty Search Committees
Department of Political Science, Reed College (2006 08, 2009 12, chair of tenure-track
Environmental Politics 2010 11, chair of tenure-track Comparative Politics 2011 12)
Department of Economics, Reed College (2009 10)
Department of Psychology, Reed College (2007 08)
Department of Political Science, Stanford University (2002 03)
Montgomery curriculum vitae, page 8 of 8
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