Reuben Steff


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Senior Lecturer, University of Waikato

Dr Reuben Steff is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Waikato, where he teaches courses on New Zealand Foreign Policy, International Relations and Global Security. He is also a member of Te Puna Haumaru - NZ Institute for Security and Crime Science.

Prior to his time in academia he spent 2.5 years working in the NZ Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade. During this time he worked in the International Security and Disarmament and Strategic Policy Divisions.

His academic research stretches across a number of areas and includes the implications of Artificial Intelligence for the global balance of power, the intersection between nuclear deterrence theory/ballistic missile defence and the security dilemma, New Zealand and US foreign policy, and Great Power Competition between the US and China. He is the author of four books, including: (1) Emerging Technologies and International Security: Machines, the State and War (Routledge 2020), (2) US Foreign Policy in the Age of Trump: Drivers, Strategy and Tactics (Routledge, 2020), (3) Security at a Price: The International Politics of US Ballistic Missile Defense (Rowman & Littlefield, 2017) and (4) Strategic Thinking, Deterrence and the US Ballistic Missile Defense Project: from Truman to Obama (Routledge, 2014).

External websites: 
www.waikato.ac.nz/fass/about/staff/rsteff
rowman.com/ISBN/9781442254589/Security-at-a-Price-The-Internatio...
kiwistrategist.blogspot.com/2018/05/emerging-technologies-implic...