Julie Bond

Biography

My key area of work is in international security. Prior to coming to Bradford, I was Professor of International and European Studies at the University of Reading and subsequently Professor of International Studies at the University of Leeds. While at Kings College London, I worked with Sir Lawrence Freedman and Robert ONeill on the four-nation Nuclear History Programme, before taking up a lectureship in International Relations at the University of Essex. My research focuses on the following sub-areas of my discipline (international relations and security): The study of the proliferation of nuclear weapons in general, the study of the security of the Korean peninsula, the geopolitics of Central Asia and Cold War History. The in the field of nuclear proliferation generally arises from the perception that the failure of the academic community to developwork a coherent analytical framework to explain this phenomenon arises from the development of national security narrative within the academic and policy communities is based on a misperception of the fundamental characteristics of the contemporary international security environment and the historical development of proliferation. This gives rise to a fundamental critique of the established viewpoints and locates the phenomenon of proliferation in the asymmetric diffusion of international norms as opposed to the asymmetric distribution of power. This work is intended to be path-breaking in the sense that it rejects the existing consensus in the academic and policy communities and essentially turns the entire analysis of the phenomenon on its head. It has very far-reaching implications given that the use of military force is widely discussed as a means of countering proliferation and one major war (Iraq) has already ensued. My research focuses on the following sub-areas of my discipline (international relations and security): The study of the proliferation of nuclear weapons in general, the study of the security of the Korean peninsula, the geopolitics of Central Asia and Cold War History. The in the field of nuclear proliferation generally arises from the perception that the failure of the academic community to developwork a coherent analytical framework to explain this phenomenon arises from the development of national security narrative within the academic and policy communities is based on a misperception of the fundamental characteristics of the contemporary international security environment and the historical development of proliferation. This gives rise to a fundamental critique of the established viewpoints and locates the phenomenon of proliferation in the asymmetric diffusion of international norms as opposed to the asymmetric distribution of power. This work is intended to be path-breaking in the sense that it rejects the existing consensus in the academic and policy communities and essentially turns the entire analysis of the phenomenon on its head. It has very far-reaching implications given that the use of military force is widely discussed as a means of countering proliferation and one major war (Iraq) has already ensued.