Matthew Kroenig is an assistant professor in the Department of Government at Georgetown University and a research affiliate with The Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard University.



He is the author of Exporting the Bomb: Statecraft and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons (Cornell University Press, forthcoming 2010) and co-author of The Handbook of National Legislatures (Cambridge University Press, 2009). His writings on international politics have appeared in such publications as American Political Science Review, Democratization, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Perspectives on Politics, Security Studies, and The Washington Post.



He has held academic fellowships from the National Science Foundation, the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California.



Dr. Kroenig has also served as a strategist on the policy planning staff in the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he authored the first-ever, U.S. government-wide strategy for deterring terrorist networks. For his work, Dr. Kroenig received the Office of the Secretary of Defense’s Award for Outstanding Achievement. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.