Patrick Hulme

Patrick Hulme is a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at Stanford’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. Patrick recently completed his Ph.D. in political science at the University of California, San Diego, and for the 2023-24 academic year, he was a research fellow with the International Security Program at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. His research and teaching interests include congressional-executive relations in U.S. foreign policy, constitutional law, deterrence theory, and the U.S.-China relationship. He has been a graduate student researcher for the Center for Peace and Security Studies (cPASS), the 21st Century China Center, and the UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC). His work has been published by International Studies Quarterly, The National Interest, and Lawfare. Patrick holds a B.A. in economics with a minor in Chinese from the University of California, Davis, and a J.D.—with a specialization in international and comparative law—from the UCLA School of Law.