Staff profile

Carly Beckerman is an Associate Professor at Durham University in the School of Government and International Affairs. Her main research interests include political risk, foreign policy decision-making and leader perceptions under conditions of incomplete information.

She is particularly interested in issues related to unconventional warfare, such as cybersecurity and the weaponization of space, and how those risks are communicated to and understood by decision-makers. She is currently the International Relations Area Editor for the Journal of Cyber Security.As a Co-Director of Durham’s Institute of Hazard, Risk and Resilience 2020-2022, Interim Executive Director of the Institute 2022-23, and as a Research Fellow at Northwestern University’s McCormick Department of Engineering in 2022, she has crucial experience in fostering inter-disciplinary research. Dr Beckerman’s own research sheds light on the relationships between data-based research, emerging technologies (including space technologies), and geopolitical dynamics.

• Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA)
• Political Psychology and IR
• Politics of Space
• Emerging Technologies and IR

Authored book

• Beckerman, C. (2020). Unexpected State: British Politics and the Creation of Israel. Indiana University Press

Chapter in book

• Beckerman, C. (in press). A Divisive Promise: The Legacy of the Balfour Declaration. In T. Petersen (Ed.), Israel in a Turbulent Region: Security and Foreign Policy. Routledge
• Beckerman-Boys, C. (2013). Assessing the Historiography of the October War. In A. Siniver (Ed.), The Yom Kippur War: Politics, Legacy, Diplomacy (11-28). Oxford University Press

Journal Article

• Curtis, S., Leach, M., Ardern, K., Beckerman, C., Hunter, P. R., Ruszczyk, H., & Pelling, M. (2024). Health and wellbeing in the face of crises associated with climate or conflict: how can knowledge from the humanities and social sciences help us respond to disasters?. Journal of the British Academy, 12(1&2), Article a13. https://doi.org/10.5871/jba/012.a13
• Beckerman, C. (2022). Political Fragility and the Timing of Conflict Mediation. Social Sciences, 11(2), Article 76. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11020076
• Beckerman, C. E. (2022). Is there a cyber security dilemma?. Journal of Cybersecurity, 8(1), Article tyac012. https://doi.org/10.1093/cybsec/tyac012
• Beckerman-Boys, C. (2016). The Reversal of the Passfield White Paper, 1930-31: A Reassessment. Journal of Contemporary History, 51(2), 213-233. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022009414559614
• Beckerman-Boys, C. (2014). Third Parties and the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Poliheuristic Decision Theory and British Mandate Palestine Policy. Foreign Policy Analysis, 10(3), 225-242. https://doi.org/10.1111/fpa.12017