Jamie Withorne
Vita
Jamie Withorne joins IFSH for a three-month visiting research fellowship in the “Arms Control and Emerging Technologies” project. She is also a Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo, Department of Political Science with the “Oslo Nuclear Project” research group. Previously, Jamie Withorne was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow with the International Atomic Energy Agency in Vienna. She has also worked as a Graduate Affiliate and Research Assistant with the “Oslo Nuclear Project”, and as a Research Assistant at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, DC. In addition, she has held positions at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the U.S. Department of State, and the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation in Washington, D.C. Jamie Withorne holds a Bachelor in Political Science from Columbia University in the City of New York and a Master in Peace and Conflict Studies from the University of Oslo, Norway.
Research profile
Jamie Withorne’s research focuses on how emerging technology and geopolitics affect nuclear weapons strategic stability. In her PhD project, she explores how states and alliances pursue strategic stability across national, regional, and multilateral contexts. By combining text analysis, archival research, satellite imagery, and other qualitative methods, she aims to map the varied practices of strategic stability and identify common mechanisms for managing arms races and conflict escalation. Her research also examines NATO alliance dynamics and politics in the post-Cold War era.
