Kimberly Peh
Dr. 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. Currently, she is working on projects related to the US-ROK alliance to better understand ways to extend deterrence and assure allies, China’s approach to deterrence, and pathways to crisis de-escalation.
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. While at Notre Dame, she was a graduate student affiliate of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies and the Notre Dame International Security Center (NDISC). She was also a fellow of the Leadership Advancing Socially Engaged Research (LASER) program. She has published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Democracy and Autocracy, the European Journal of International Security, Global Environmental Politics, International Studies Perspectives, and the North Korean Review.
Selected 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)
