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Amy Nelson
Amy Nelson
David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Brookings Institution
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Research Scholar, Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland (CISSM)
​twitter: @AmyJNelsonPhD
email:  ajnelson1 [at] gmail [dot] com



international instruments | export control, transfer policy and laws | strategic trade control

Amy J. Nelson is a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Foreign Policy Program at the Brookings Institution, where her research focuses on arms control and emerging technologies, new European security initiatives, German military innovation, and prospects for arms control and non-proliferation in a new geopolitical landscape. She was previously a Research Fellow at National Defense University's Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction, a Robert Bosch Fellow in Berlin, Germany in residence at the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP), a policy analyst at the U.S. State Department's Directorate of Defense Trade Controls in the Political-Military Affairs Bureau, and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Nelson is also a Research Scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy, and on the faculty of Missouri State University's Defense and Strategic Studies Program. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. 


Recent publications: 
  • "Arms control needs a shot in the arm," Brookings, February 3, 2023.
  • "Arms Control Needs a Shot in the Arm," Brookings, February 3, 2023. 
  • “The PLA’s Strategic Support Force and AI Innovation," Tech Stream, Brookings, December 23, 2022.*
  • ​"How Emerging Technology Is Breaking Arms Control," Lawfare, April 24, 2022.
  • "Mind the escalation aversion: Managing risk without losing the initiative in the Russia-Ukraine war," Brookings, March 11, 2022.*
  • "Innovation acceleration, digitization, and the crisis of nonproliferation systems," The Nonproliferation Review, March 1, 2022. 
  • "How the demise of an arms control treaty foreshadowed Russia’s aggression against Ukraine," Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 01, 2022.*
  • "Is the U.S. military’s futurism obsession hurting national security?" Brookings, January 18, 2022.
  • "The Cost of Uncertainty: European Strategic Autonomy and U.S.-E.U. Relations," Brookings, August 23, 2021.
  • "The rise of the futurists: The perils of predicting with futurethink," Brookings, November, 2020.*
  • "Inevitable Bedfellows? Cooperation on Military Technology for the Development of UAVs and Cruise Missiles in the Asia-Pacific," International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), July 28, 2020.*
  • ​"Innovation and Its Discontents: National Models of Military Innovation and the Dual-Use Conundrum," The Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), July 2020.
  • "New European Defense Initiatives," blog post, December 19, 2017.

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