Justin Key Canfil

Justin K. Canfil is an Assistant Professor of Emerging Technologies and International Relations at Carnegie Mellon University and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). His research and writing has appeared in War on the Rocks, Lawfare, The Diplomat, and the Journals of Peace Research, Cybersecurity, International Affairs. An international relations specialist by training, Canfil’s research broadly concerns the impact of emerging technologies on international law, arms control, and international security. While at CFR, he is completing a book manuscript that explains how arms controllers engineer against technological creativity, and why these efforts succeed or fail. Canfil has held postdoctoral fellowships at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at the Harvard Kennedy School, Princeton’s Center on Contemporary China, and the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Columbia University and received an exaugural (2019-2020) US Fulbright Scholarship to China.