Casey Mahoney

Casey Mahoney is a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Political Science, where he also received his Ph.D. in November 2023. His research focuses on international alliances, emerging technology and military strategy, and other topics in international security. Casey concurrently serves as an adjunct policy researcher at the RAND Corporation.

In 2021-22, Casey completed a U.S. Institute of Peace-DoD Minerva Peace & Security Scholar dissertation fellowship and—in Summer 2022—worked as an adjunct research associate at the RAND Corporation’s Arroyo Center. Previously, he served as a Nunn-Lugar Fellow at the U.S. Department of Defense, contributing to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy) counter-ISIL team as the Jordan Country Director (2015-17) and supporting WMD nonproliferation programs in the Indo-Pacific (2013-15). Casey has held research positions at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory in Richland, WA; the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization in Vienna, Austria; and the Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, CA.

His work is published in War on the Rocks, the Washington Post Monkey Cage Blog, Orbis, The National Interest, andThe Oxford Handbook of Artificial Intelligence Governance. Casey holds an M.A. with distinction in nonproliferation and terrorism studies from the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a B.A. summa cum laude in Russian from Middlebury College.