Nazli Choucri

Myron Weiner Award, 2016 Nazli Choucri is a professor of Political Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology[1] Her main research focus is on International Relations and Cyberpolitics.[5] Her work focuses on the area of cyberpolitics and computational social sciences in international relations—exploring emergent state dynamics and interactions within in and across three overarching "spaces" of 21st century politics: (i) the traditional human geo-political arena, (ii) the natural environment, and (iii) the constructed domain of cyberspace.Dr.Choucri theoretical focus is on the dynamics of transformation and change in international relations articulated in the Theory of Lateral Pressure[6]—introduced by Robert C. North.The theory addresses the sources and consequences of transformation and change in international relations and provides a basis for analyzing potential feedback dynamics.Later, she participated in the NSF Science of Security and Privacy Program  of the Vanderbilt University, working as Principal Investigator of the research project on Analytics for Cybersecurity Policy of Cyber-Physical Systems.
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