Mailing address
One Brattle Square 518
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79 John F. Kennedy Street
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Bryan Early
Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
Contact:
Telephone: 617-496-8587
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: bryan_early@ksg.harvard.edu
Experience
Bryan R. Early is a research fellow with the Belfer Center's Dubai Initiative. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in political science at the University of Georgia’s School of Public and International Relations. He graduated with a B.A. in politics from Washington and Lee University in 2004 and earned his M.A. in political science from the University of Georgia in 2006.
His general research interests are in foreign policy, international trade and security, terrorism, and the politics of the Middle East. His dissertation, entitled “Trading with Sanctioned States,” examines how firms and state governments respond to the imposition of economic sanctions against their trading partners. He has published or has forthcoming articles in the International Studies Quarterly, Foreign Policy Analysis, and World Affairs. His work as part of the Dubai Initiative will explore the foreign trade and security policies of the United Arab Emirates (UAE).
Before joining the Belfer Center, he worked as a research associate with the University of Georgia's Center for International Trade and Security. In that position, he conducted work on nonproliferation export controls and strategic trade in the Middle East and Central Asia, doing field work in both the UAE and Armenia. He has authored multiple reports for the U.S. Government on these topics.
January 2008
"Following START: Risk Acceptance and the 1991-92 Presidential Nuclear Initiatives"
Journal Article, Foreign Policy Analysis, issue 1, volume 4
By Matthew Fuhrmann, Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program and Bryan Early, Research Fellow, The Dubai Initiative
The article explains why in September 1991, shortly after the attempted putsch against Gorbachev, George H.W. Bush launched the unilateral Presidential Nuclear Initiatives (PNIs). The PNIs were measures that led to the largest reductions in the American and Soviet/Russian nuclear arsenals to date The article argues that an explanation rooted in prospect theory and a focus on Bush as an individual decision-maker offers the most explanatory power.
