Alan J. Kuperman is Associate Professor at the LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, where he teaches courses in global policy studies, is Coordinator of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Project (www.nppp.org), and leads a Pentagon-funded project on Constitutional Design and Conflict Management in Africa. He is author of The Limits of Humanitarian Intervention: Genocide in Rwanda (Brookings, 2001) and co-editor of Gambling on Humanitarian Intervention: Moral Hazard, Rebellion and Civil War (Routledge, 2006). His articles have appeared in journals and newspapers including Foreign Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, and The New York Times, and he has chapters in many edited volumes. His latest book chapter is “Humanitarian Intervention,” in International Politics: Enduring Concepts and Contemporary Issues, 10th edition, eds. Art and Jervis (Longman, 2010).

In 2009-2010, he was awarded a fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, in Washington, DC. During 2002-2005, he was Resident Assistant Professor and coordinator of the International Relations program at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Bologna, Italy. Prior to his academic career, Kuperman worked as Legislative Director for Congressman Charles Schumer, Legislative Assistant for U.S. House Speaker Thomas Foley, Chief of Staff for Congressman James Scheuer, Senior Policy Analyst for the nongovernmental Nuclear Control Institute, and a fellow at the U.S. Agency for International Development. He holds an M.A. in International Relations and International Economics from SAIS, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Selected Research:

• “R2P: Catchy Name for a Fading Norm,” Ethnopolitics, March 2011
• “Mass Atrocity Response Operations: Doctrine in Search of Strategy,” Genocide Studies and Prevention, April 2011
• “Darfur: Strategic Victimhood Strikes Again?” Genocide Studies and Prevention, December 2009
• “Wishful Thinking Will Not Stop Genocide: Suggestions for a More Realistic Strategy,” Genocide Studies and Prevention, August 2009
• “Rethinking the Responsibility to Protect,” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, Winter/Spring 2009
• "Legislation to Reduce Bomb-Grade Uranium Commerce:  Background and Options," AAAS Congressional  Briefing, October 2008
• "Mitigating the Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from Economics," Global Governance, April-June 2008
• "The Moral Hazard of Humanitarian Intervention: Lessons from the Balkans," International Studies Quarterly, March 2008
• "Averting the Third Kosovo War," The American Interest, January/February 2008

Selected Commentary:

• "Resolving the market mysteries of medical isotopes," CMAJ, August 27, 2012
• "There is a third option for ending the Syrian conflict" The Washington Post, Letter to the Editor, August 15, 2012
• "U.S. anti-proliferation move could harm Nordion's medical isotopes business" the Ottawa Citizen, August 9, 2012
• "A Nuclear Iran Is Too Much to Risk," Los Angeles Times, op-ed, April 1, 2012
• “The big question in global affairs,” KNOW, University of Texas at Austin, October 13, 2011
• “False pretense for war in Libya?” Boston Globe, op-ed, April 14, 2011
• “5 things the U.S. should consider in Libya,” USA Today, op-ed, March 22, 2011
• “There’s Only One Way to Stop Iran,” New York Times, op-ed, December 24, 2009
• "MDS Nordion Not Giving Up on Isotope Business If Canada Does," The Wall Street Journal, July 2009
• "U.S. to jump-start domestic isotope production," Canada.com, July 2009
• "U.S. is poised to enter medical isotope market," Toronto Star, July 2009
• "Critical US medical radioisotope shortage sparks Obama administration response," Miami Health Care Examiner, July 2009
• "Isotope shortage a flashpoint at home, abroad," Ottawa Citizen, June 2009
• "Manager sought for troubled reactor," Toronto Star, May 2009
• "No to a Darfur No-Fly Zone," Washington Post, March 2009
• "Using Highly Enriched Uranium to Make Medical Products Poses Double Risk, Experts Warn,"  NTI: Global Security Newswire, October 2008
• "AECL sits on pile of unused bomb-grade uranium," Ottawa Citizen, September 2008
• "Questions about future of HEU had role in Maple's end, AECL says," Inside NRC, May 2008
• "US weighs entering radioisotope market," Physics Today, May 2008
• "Government inflated fear of medical isotope shortage," Toronto Star, March 2008
• "Canada snubbed international efforts to protect isotope supply, report says," The Canadian Press, February 2008
• "Critics slam use of weapons-grade uranium in Canadian reactors," National Post, December 2007
• "Fallout seen over isotope gap,"  Toronto Star, December 2007
• "Kosovo's Move Toward Independence Stirs Fears of Violence," VOA News, December 2007
• SqueezePlay, Business News Network, December 2007

Selected TV Appearences

• "Violence in Libya," Good Day Austin, KTBC-TV, Fox 7, September 13, 2012
• "World Disorder," Crosstalk, RT (Russia), August 29, 2012
• "The Situation in Syria," Good Day Austin, KTBC-TV, Fox 7, June 20, 2012
• “Tension Rising between U.S. and Afghanistan,” Good Day Austin, KTBC-TV, Fox 7, March 26, 2012
• “Iran-Israel Tensions," Good Day Austin, KTBC-TV, Fox 7, March 8, 2012
• “Non-Violent Resistance,” Good Morning Texas, Texas Student Television, November 2011
• “Arab Fall?” Crosstalk, RT (Russia), June 21, 2011
• “Gaddafi a Legitimate Target?” RT America, May 6, 2011
• “Kuperman says Negotiate in Libya; Don't Arm Rebels,” Russia TV (RT), May 5, 2011
• “Getting Away with Murder,” Russia TV (RT), May 3, 2011
• “A Violation of Norms,” Democracy Now, May 3, 2011
• "Libyan intervention doing more harm than good," Russia TV (RT), April 19, 2011
• "How Should the US Respond to Libya?" Good Day Austin, KTBC-TV, Fox 7, March 10, 2011
• “Kosovo - Renegade State,” Crosstalk, RT (Russia), December 22, 2010
• “What the Future Holds for the US, Israel and Iran,” KTBC-TV, Fox 7, October 12, 2010
• "Targeting Tehran," Crosstalk, RT (Russia), September 22, 2010
• “Iran’s Nuclear Research Reactor,” Al-Jazeera TV, May 29, 2010
• "Does the World Have the Right to Prevent Genocide?" CNN's Amanpour, October 2009 (transcript)
• "The Responsibility to Protect (Segment 4)," America Abroad Media, March 2009
• "Kosovo Reactions," Russia Today, February 2008
• "Unrest in Belgrade," Newsworld, CBC-TV, February 2008

Selected Radio Commentary

• “Intervention in Libya,” The Thursday Report with Doug McKenty, KZYX, May 5, 2011
• “Global policy trend toward interventionism,” Global Freedom Report, May 4, 2011
• “Libya,” Michael Schaus, Media Logic radio, KFTM, April 15, 2011
• “Libya,” Scott Horton Show, Antiwar Radio, April 15, 2011
• “Humanitarian War?” The Ron Smith Show, WBAL Radio, Baltimore, MD, April 6, 2011
• "The Big Question -- Intervention in Libya?" Joy Cardin Show, Wisconsin Public Radio, March 23, 2011
• “Libya Intervention,” Good Morning Show, KFAB 1110 AM, Omaha, NE, March 23, 2011
• “Eliminating Bomb-Grade Uranium from Medical Isotope Production,” National Public Radio, December 6, 2010
• “U.S. Approach to Iran,” Newshour, BBC World Service, February 6, 2010
• The House CBC Radio, June 2009
• "Isotopes Future," As It Happens, CBC Radio, June 2009
• The House CBC Radio , February 2009
• "Isotopes Pak," As It Happens, CBC Radio, February 2008
• "Isotopes," As It Happens, CBC Radio, December 2007