Sarkar Speaks at LSE on Capitalism and Nonproliferation
Jayita Sarkar, Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, recently presented her ongoing research on the role of U.S. reactor businesses in American nonproliferation policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science on January 23, 2019.
Sarkar delivered her lecture as part of the LSE-Sciences Po Seminar on Contemporary International History. Her talk, entitled “Light Water Capitalism: American Global Power through Nonproliferation,” is a study of the hitherto unexamined practice of the United States government to export light water reactors with generous financial packages from the Export-Import Bank to attain U.S. nonproliferation goals.
Jayita Sarkar, an historian by training, is Assistant Professor of International Relations at Boston University’s Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies. Her expertise is in the history of U.S. foreign policy, nuclear proliferation, the global Cold War, South Asia and Western Europe. Her research has appeared or is forthcoming in the Journal of Cold War Studies, Journal of Strategic Studies, Cold War History, International History Review, and elsewhere. Dr. Sarkar has held fellowships at MIT, Harvard, Columbia and Yale universities, and obtained a doctorate in International History from the Graduate Institute Geneva in Switzerland.