Georgia Institute of Technology

Research Focus

Adam N. Stulberg is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) in the Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on international security, Eurasian politics and security affairs, nuclear (non)proliferation, and energy and international security, as well as inter-disciplinary courses on science, technology, and international security policy. His current research focuses on strategic energy interaction, energy statecraft in Eurasia, new approaches to strategic stability and denuclearization of military arsenals, nuclear security and nonproliferation, internationalization of the nuclear fuel cycle, counter-network warfare, and the implications of nanotechnology for international security.

Dr. Stulberg earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), as well as holds an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University, an M.A. in Political Science from UCLA, and a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan. He served as a Political Consultant at RAND from 1987-1997, and as a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Monterey Institute of International Studies (1997-1998). He has worked closely with Senator Sam Nunn drafting policy recommendations and background studies on future directions for the U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction Program, building regional and energy security regimes in Central Asia and the South Caucasus, and engaging Russia's regional power centers. Dr. Stulberg was a post-doctoral fellow at CNS (2000-2001); policy scholar at the EastWest Institute; and has been a consultant to the Carnegie Corporation of New York (2000-present) and the Office of Net Assessment, Office of the U.S. Secretary of Defense (2000-present). Dr. Stulberg has either authored or edited four books, and has published widely in leading academic and policy journals.

Dr. Stulberg maintains a conspicuous presence both inside and outside of the classroom at Georgia Tech. He is a two-time recipient of the INTA Graduate Student Association's "Professor of the Year," and has received the same honor from Sigma Iota Rho, the international affairs undergraduate honor society. Dr. Stulberg was a 1998 CETL teaching fellow, and he was a Hesburgh Teaching Fellow in 2009. He also was the recipient of the 2010 Ivan Allen Jr. Legacy Faculty Award in recognition for his scholarship, as well as a "demonstrated commitment to serving students at the College, the Institute, and in the Community." Dr. Stulberg has served on numerous school, college, and campus-wide committees, as well as was the chair of the Sam Nunn-Bank of America Policy Forum in 2012, 2010 and 2008.

Courses Taught

INTA 3000: International Relations Theory

INTA 3102: Problems of Proliferation
INTA 3121: Foreign & Security Policies of Russia and Eurasia

INTA 4100: Science, Technology & International Affairs
INTA 4121: Seminar Europe-EU Security

INTA 4803: Russia in the 21st Century
INTA 4803: Energy & International Security

INTA 6102: International Relations Theory

INTA 6103: International Security
INTA 8803: Foreign & Security Policies of Russia and Eurasia
INTA 8803: Problems of Proliferation

INTA 8803: Energy & International Security

INTA 8803: Science, Technology & International Security