Matthew Harries

Expertise

Topics

• European Union and Transatlantic Relations
• Nuclear Deterrence
• Strategic and Security Issues

Background and Education

Dr. Matthew Harries is Managing Editor of Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, and Research Fellow for Transatlantic Affairs at the IISS. Before joining the institute in November 2014, Matthew was a postdoctoral research associate at the Centre for Science and Security Studies in the Department of War Studies at King’s College London, where he was lead author of a study on conventional deterrence. His PhD, on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council’s Global Uncertainties programme, and supervised at King’s College by Professor Sir Lawrence Freedman. While at King’s College, Matthew also founded and managed a track-two dialogue between early-career British and Chinese nuclear-policy researchers and practitioners, and co-edited the NPT Briefing Book. Matthew is a member of the board of advisors of the Project on Nuclear Issues at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). He previously worked for the IISS as a research assistant, and has served as a consultant for the International Centre for Security Analysis (ICSA) at King’s College. He read history and politics at Christ Church, Oxford, graduating in 2008 with first class honors.

Publications

"Britain’s Dangerous New Politics," in Survival, November 21, 2016; "Brexit and Political Malpractice," in Survival, May 20, 2016; "Nuclear Deterrence," in Harsh V. Pant (ed.), Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation (London: Routledge, 2011)