Dr Carly Beckerman

Biography	Carly Beckerman is an Associate Professor at Durham University in the School of Government and International Affairs. Her main research interests include security, foreign policy decision-making and leader perceptions of political risks under conditions of incomplete information. She is particularly interested in issues related to unconventional warfare, such as cybersecurity and the weaponization of space, and how those risks are communicated to and understood by decision-makers. She is currently the International Relations Area Editor for the Journal of Cyber Security. As a Co-Director of Durham’s Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience 2020-2022, Interim Executive Director of the Institute 2022-23, and as a Research Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick Department of Engineering in 2022, she has crucial experience in fostering inter-disciplinary research. Dr Beckerman’s own research sheds light on the relationships between data-based research, emerging technologies (including space technologies), and geopolitical dynamics.
Research Interests	Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) Political Psychology and IR Politics of Space Emerging Technologies and IR

Biography

Carly Beckerman is an Associate Professor at Durham University in the School of Government and International Affairs. Her main research interests include security, foreign policy decision-making and leader perceptions of political risks under conditions of incomplete information. She is particularly interested in issues related to unconventional warfare, such as cybersecurity and the weaponization of space, and how those risks are communicated to and understood by decision-makers. She is currently the International Relations Area Editor for the Journal of Cyber Security.

As a Co-Director of Durham’s Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience 2020-2022, Interim Executive Director of the Institute 2022-23, and as a Research Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick Department of Engineering in 2022, she has crucial experience in fostering inter-disciplinary research. Dr Beckerman’s own research sheds light on the relationships between data-based research, emerging technologies (including space technologies), and geopolitical dynamics.

Research Interests

Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA)
Political Psychology and IR
Politics of Space
Emerging Technologies and IR