not in residence

Research Interests
international security; nuclear weapons proliferation; homeland security; terrorism; civil war

Matthew Kroenig was a 2006-2007 CISAC predoctoral fellow and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He was also the Herbert York Fellow at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation at the University of California. His dissertation explains the strategic incentives that drive states to provide nuclear weapons technology to non-nuclear-weapon states. His other research focuses on international security, nuclear weapons proliferation, homeland security, terrorism, and civil war.

His writings have appeared in such publications as Foreign Affairs, Newsday, and Security Studies.

Kroenig has also served as a strategist in the office of the Secretary of Defense, where he was a principal author of key national security strategy and defense review documents and where he developed a U.S. government-wide strategy for deterring terrorist networks. For his work, he received the Department of Defense's Award for Outstanding Achievement.

He holds a BA in history from the University of Missouri, Columbia, and an MA in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.