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Joshua Schwartz

Assistant Professor, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology

Bio

Joshua A. Schwartz is an Assistant Professor in the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology (CMIST). His research focuses on questions related to the effectiveness of military force and technology, public and policymaker support for the use of force and technology, and the spread of military technology around the world. Dr. Schwartz has written widely on topics such as the global proliferation of armed drones and their counter-terrorism effectiveness, public and policymaker support for the use of weapons of mass destruction, the role of gender stereotypes in international politics, whether countries should go to war to bolster their reputations for resolve, the nexus between domestic political polarization and foreign policy, and even the lessons that can be learned from dragon power in  and . His academic work has been published in top peer-reviewed journals like  and , as well as in prominent policy outlets like , , , and .  

Before joining Â鶹´å, Dr. Schwartz received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania and his BA in Economics and Political Science from the George Washington University. He was also a Grand Strategy, Security, and Statecraft Predoctoral Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School, a Grand Strategy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Hans J. Morgenthau fellow at the University of Notre Dame, and a Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Emerging Scholar. 

CMIST Course Offerings

• 84-274/84-674 An Introduction to Technology and War
• 84-280 Popcorn and Politics: American Foreign Policy at the Movies
• 84-387/84-687 Remote Systems and the Cyber Domain in Conflict

Publications

 “.” 2025. Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 69, No. 2-3, pp. 352-380 (with Dominic Tierney). 

“.” 2025. Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 62, No. 4, pp. 847-862 (with Michael C. Horowitz). 

"." 2025. Journal of Political Science Education. 

“.” 2024. International Security, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 47-86.

“.” 2024. Environmental Politics, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 1-24 (with Paul Lendway and Abolfazl Nuri).

“.”  2024. Journal of Political Science Education. 

“.” 2023. International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 67, No. 4 (with Christopher W. Blair). 

• Winner of the 2022 APSA Presidents and Executive Politics Section David Naveh Founders Award for Best Graduate Student Paper

“.” 2023. Security Studies, Vol. 32, No. 2, pp. 271-305.

“.” 2022. International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 66, No. 3 (with Matthew Fuhrmann and Michael C. Horowitz).

“.” 2022. Journal of Conflict Resolution, Vol. 66, No. 4-5, pp. 677-702 (with Christopher W. Blair and Jonathan A. Chu).

“.” 2022. Conflict Management and Peace Science, Vol. 39, No. 2, pp. 119-142 (with Michael C. Horowitz and Matthew Fuhrmann).

“.” 2020. International Organization, Vol. 74, No. 4, pp. 872-895 (with Christopher W. Blair).

• Winner of the 2019 Special Competition for Young Investigators, Time-Sharing Experiments for the Social Sciences (TESS)