Kimberly Peh is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Global Security Research (CGSR) at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Her research is centered on conflict prevention, with a regional focus on East Asia. Currently, she is working on projects related to nuclear crisis management and rethinking the conflict continuum to align with the multipolar challenge. She is interested in the study of methods and is exploring new ways to examine future-oriented questions and those with no good empirical data or historical analogues. She earned her PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of Notre Dame and a joint BA in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the National University of Singapore. She has published in various policy and academic outlets, including the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the European Journal of International Security, Global Environmental Politics, International Studies Perspectives, and the North Korean Review.
Recent Publications
“Is Democracy the Answer to Intractable Climate Change?” Global Environmental Politics. 2023. https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00710. (with Angela Chesler, Debra Javeline, and Shana Scogin)
Less threats, more focus: What Biden needs to do to win an Iran nuclear deal. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. July 26, 2022. https://thebulletin.org/2022/07/less-threats-more-focus-what-biden-needs-to-do-to-win-an-iran-nuclear-deal/. (with Soul Park)
“Staying the course: Denuclearization and path dependence in US-North Korea relations.” North Korean Review. Volume 17, Issue 1, 2021, pp. 57-78. https://www.jstor.org/stable/27033550. (with Soul Park)
“Leveraging towards restraint: Nuclear hedging and North Korea’s shifting reference points during the agreed framework and the six-party talks.” European Journal of International Security. Volume 5, Issue 1, 2020, pp. 94-114. https://doi.org/10.1017/eis.2019.15. (with Soul Park)




