Rebecca Davis Gibbons is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Southern Maine and an associate at the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Her research focuses on the nuclear nonproliferation regime, arms control, the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, and global order. After college, she taught elementary school within the Bikini community on Kili Island in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. Her academic writing has been published in journals including Comparative Strategy, the Journal of Global Security Studies, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Washington Quarterly, the Nonproliferation Review, and Parameters. Her public affairs commentary has been featured in Arms Control Today, The Hill, U.S. News & World Report, War on the Rocks, and the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage.
Rebecca Davis Gibbons
Assistant Professor at the University of Southern Maine and associate at the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard Kennedy School
Content by Rebecca Davis Gibbons
Commentary
Nuclear diplomacy in the Biden administration
The Biden administration takes over a perilous global landscape when it comes to nuclear arms control and disarmament. Rebecca Davis Gibbons looks at what we can expect from Biden on nuclear issues and where the opportunities lie for progress.