Daryl G. Press

|Professor
Academic Appointments

  • Professor of Government

  • Faculty Director, Initiative for Global Security

Daryl Press's research and teaching focus on U.S. foreign policy, deterrence, and the future of warfare. He has published two books, Calculating Credibility (2005) and The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution (2020), and his work has appeared in leading academic journals such as International Security, the American Political Science Review, and Security Studies, as well as in the popular press including Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, and The Atlantic Monthly.  Press is the co-founder of the Strategic Forces Bootcamp, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, and the Seminar on Conventional Force Analysis, a project to revitalize the field of open-source conventional force analysis. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Contact

daryl.g.press@dartmouth.edu
(603) 646-1707
Silsby, Room 120
HB 6108

Department(s)

Government

Center(s)

The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding

Education

  • B.A. University of Chicago
  • Ph.D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Selected Publications

  • "Lost Seoul: Assessing Pyongyang's Other Deterrent," Texas National Security Review, forthcoming 2025 (with N. Anderson).

  • "South Korea's Nuclear Options," Foreign Affairs (2023) (with J. Lind)

  • "The Return of Nuclear Escalation," Foreign Affairs (2023) (with K. Lieber)

  • "The New Era of Counterforce: Technological Change and the Future of Nuclear Deterrence," International Security (2017): 7-44 (with K. Lieber).

         -- Best Article, awarded by the International Security section of the APSA, 2018.

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Books

The Myth of the Nuclear Revolution: Power Politics in the Nuclear Age, Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, Cornell University Press, with K. Lieber (2020).

Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats, Cornell Studies in Security Affairs, Cornell University Press (2005).