Scott Sagan

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Scott Sagan
InstitutionsStanford University
Harvard University
Main interests
Nuclear proliferation

Scott Douglas Sagan (born 1955) is the Caroline S.G. Munro Professor of

nuclear weapons policy and nuclear disarmament, including discussions of system accidents
, and has published widely on these subjects.

In 2017 Sagan received the International Studies Association's Susan Strange Award.[1] Sagan was the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences William and Katherine Estes Award in 2015[2] and the International Studies Association's Distinguished Scholar Award in 2013.[3]

He currently serves as the American Academy of Arts and Sciences' Chair of the Committee on International Security Studies and on the Academy's Council.[4]

Biography

Sagan holds a B.A. in Government from Oberlin College (1977) and a Ph.D. from Harvard University (1983). He spent the junior year of his undergraduate degree at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.[5] Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1987, Sagan was a lecturer in the Department of Government at Harvard University and served as special assistant to the director of the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. He has served as a consultant to the office of the Secretary of Defense and at the Sandia National Laboratories and the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Work

Sagan is known for his research on the organizations managing nuclear weapons and published on the subject in The Limits of Safety: Organizations, Accidents, and Nuclear Weapons (Princeton University Press, 1993). Bruce G. Blair writes, "Scott Sagan's book [The Limits of Safety] is nothing less than a tour de force.... It is by far the most carefully researched and painstaking study of nuclear weapons safety ever written."[6][7]

He also is one of the leading pessimist scholars about

non-proliferation
policies."

His most recent publications include The Fragile Balance of Terror: Deterrence in the New Nuclear Age,

The American Political Science Review
(February 2013); and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences occasional paper, "A Worst Practices Guide to Insider Threats: Learning from Past Mistakes," (2014), with Matthew Bunn.

Awards

Scott Sagan was selected in 2018 by the Carnegie Corporation as an Andrew Carnegie Fellow.[13] In 2017, Scott Sagan received the International Studies Association's Susan Strange Award.[1] The award recognizes a person whose "singular intellect, assertiveness, and insight most challenge conventional wisdom and intellectual and organizational complacency" in the international studies community. Sagan was the recipient of the National Academy of Sciences William and Katherine Estes Award in 2015, for his pioneering work addressing the risks of nuclear weapons and the causes of nuclear proliferation.[14] The award, which is granted triennially, recognizes "research in any field of cognitive or behavioral science that advances understanding of issues relating to the risk of nuclear war." In 2013, Sagan received the International Studies Association's International Security Studies Section Distinguished Scholar Award. Sagan has also won four teaching awards: the 2020 Phi Beta Kappa of Northern California Teaching Excellence Award;[15] the Monterey Institute for International Studies' 2009 Outstanding Contribution to Nonproliferation Education Award; the International Studies Association's 2008 Deborah Misty Gerner Innovative Teaching Award; Stanford University's 1998-99 Dean's Award for Distinguished Teaching; and Stanford University's 1996 Laurance and Naomi Hoagland Prize for Undergraduate Teaching. He teaches a popular course with Allen Weiner called "The Face of Battle," in which students walk key battlefields from American history, performing individual historical roles in staff rides and meeting with national security professionals.[16][17]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "Scott Sagan receives the Susan Strange award - Political Science". stanford.edu. Archived from the original on 22 April 2017. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  2. ^ "William and Katherine Estes Award". www.nasonline.org. Retrieved 2016-03-25.
  3. ^ "ISSS Distinguished Scholar Past Recipients". isanet.org.
  4. ^ "Scott D. Sagan". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-07-06.
  5. ^ "'What Matters' to Scott Sagan: Improved international security and dedicated teaching: 10/01". stanford.edu. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  6. ^ Book review at Amazon, same source counts that 100 books cite this book
  7. ]
  8. – via Amazon.
  9. ^ "The Fragile Balance of Terror". Cornell University Press.
  10. ^ "Books".
  11. ^ "Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima | Edited by Edward D. Blandford and Scott D. Sagan".
  12. ^ "Volume 145 Issue 4 | Daedalus | MIT Press".
  13. ^ "Scott Sagan". Carnegie Corporation of New York. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  14. ^ "William and Katherine Estes Award". nasonline.org. Retrieved 22 April 2017.
  15. ^ "Phi Beta Kappa Northern California Association - Teaching-past". pbknca.com. Retrieved 2022-06-27.
  16. ^ Berkowitz, Peter (30 April 2011). "WSJ". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 22 April 2017 – via online.wsj.com.
  17. ^ "The Face of Battle | Sophomore College | Stanford Undergrad". undergrad.stanford.edu. Retrieved 2020-07-22.

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