Recent PhD Dr. Rizwan Asghar publishes article on nuclear weapons and interstate conflict in CMPS

UCD political science PhD Dr. Rizwan Asghar, currently a postdoctoral fellow at Trinity College Dublin, recently published some of his dissertation research on nuclear weapons and interstate conflict behavior in the journal Conflict Management and Peace Science. Dr. Asghar argues that civil-military relations moderate the effect of nuclear weapons on interstate war. While nuclear weapons are associated with less interstate conflict in states with strong civilian control of the military, when civilian control of the military is very low, nuclear weapons are associated with more interstate conflict. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/07388942241238649