アメリカ海軍大学教校授(国家安全保障問題)。ダートマス大学、ジョージタウン大学での教職を経て現職。コロンビア大学で修士、ジョージタウン大学で博士号を取得。専門はロシア、核戦略、NATO問題。著書にThe Death of Expertise: The Campaign against Established Knowledge and Why it Matters (Oxford University Press, 2017〔『専門知は、もういらないのか』高里ひろ訳、みすず書房〕), No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014), Eve of Destruction: The Coming Age of Preventive War (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008), Winning the World: Lessons for America’s Future from the Cold War (Praeger, 2003), The Russian Presidency: Society and Politics in the Second Russian Republic, revised and expanded edition (Palgrave/St. Martin’s Press, 2001), The Sacred Cause: Civil-Military Conflict over Soviet National Security, 1917-1992 (Cornell University Press, 1993)など。
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Tom Nichols