Daryl G. Press
Faculty Director, Davidson Institute for Global Security
Professor of Government
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 Boot Camp, in partnership with Sandia National Laboratories, and the inaugural Faculty Director of the Davidson Institute for Global Security at Dartmouth. Press consults regularly for the U.S. Defense Department and he is a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council. He received his undergraduate education at the University of Chicago and his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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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
"Access Denied? U.S. Airpower vs. China's A2/AD in Maritime East Asia," International Security (2025) (with N. Anderson)
"Lost Seoul: Assessing Pyongyang's Other Deterrent," Texas National Security Review (2025) (with N. Anderson).
"Strategies of Prioritization: American Foreign Policy After Primacy," Foreign Affairs (2025) (with J. Lind).
"The Return of Nuclear Escalation," Foreign Affairs (2023) (with K. Lieber)
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).