Christopher David LaRoche

 

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I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of International Relations at Central European University in Vienna, Austria and a visiting professor in Bard College's Globalization and International Affairs program in New York City. I research and teach classes in international security, institutions, foreign policy, and political psychology, for which I have won grants and awards.

My book project, Making and Breaking the World, analyzes how great powers collude to maintain periods of stability. Using archival research, I show how great powers created grand bargains to divide the world into exclusive zones of authority during. These arrangements stabilized great power relations but enabled local interventions, resulting in global stability at the expense of local, often genocidal violence.

I am actively involved in leading and contributing to several current research projects. A Stanton Foundation-funded project examines nuclear control in context by revisiting the role played by international institutions and security architecture in key elements of nuclear security, such as deterrence and escalation. I am also part of a broad research network investigating the rise of reactionary internationalism. Aided by a 2022 EISA exploratory symposium, a third project explores the role of subjective and psychological distance in international relations, especially its constitution in everyday experience.

Before joining CEU, I was a 2018 postdoctoral fellow at the University of Alberta's China Institute, and a 2017/2018 research fellow at the Trudeau Centre for Peace, Conflict, and Justice at the Univerity of Toronto's Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. I hold a PhD in political science from the University of Toronto and hail from Nova Scotia, Canada.



Updates

I am pleased to announce I am the recipient of the 2024 CEU Teaching Excellence Award.

Gustav Meibauer and I have written on German nuclear weapons and Eurodeterrence at War on the Rocks.

Read my thoughts on Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer at The Duck of Minerva.

See my review of Glenda Sluga's The Invention of International Order for E-International Relations.

Kirill Shamiev and I have written about the security of Russia's nuclear arsenal for Foreign Policy.

My piece on the use and abuse of historical analogies in Ukraine war commentary is available at Foreign Policy.

Simon Frankel Pratt and I have written on European solidarity for Ukraine's refugees and charges of double-standards at Foreign Policy.




ADDRESS
Deptartment of International Relations
Central European University
51 Quellenstrasse
1100 Vienna, Austria

EMAIL
larochec (at) ceu.edu

TWITTER
@CDLaRoche