Fiona Cunningham Session Overview

FIONA CUNNINGHAM is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She is also a Faculty Fellow at Perry World House and Faculty Affiliate at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China and the Browne Center for International Politics at the University of Pennsylvania. Her research lies at the intersection of technology and conflict, with an empirical focus on China. Cunningham’s first book, Under the Nuclear Shadow: China’s Information-Age Weapons in International Security, explains how and why China threatens to use space weapons, cyber-attacks, and conventional missiles as substitutes for nuclear threats in limited wars. Her research has appeared in International Security, Security Studies, The Texas National Security Review, and The Washington Quarterly and featured in the New York Times and the Economist.