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"Rogue States" and the United States: A Historical Perspective

Vice President for Programs and Director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center Robert Litwak answers some of the biggest questions surrounding the relationship between today's "Rogue States" (North Korea, Libya, Iran) and the United States.

Date & Time

Monday
Sep. 19, 2011
4:00pm – 5:30pm ET

Location

4th Floor, Woodrow Wilson Center
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Overview

The term “rogue states” entered the U.S. foreign policy lexicon after the Cold War to designate regimes that employed terrorism as an instrument of state policy and attempted to acquire weapons of mass destruction in pursuit of policy goals. Named to the core group were Iraq, Libya, Iran, and North Korea. Iraq and Libya have since experienced U.S.-directed or U.S.-assisted regime change. What are the implications for the ongoing challenges to international order and American security posed by Iran and North Korea? How can states that egregiously violate international norms be reintegrated into the “family” or “community” of nations?

Robert Litwak is vice president for programs and director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson Center. He is a former director for Nonproliferation on the National Security Council staff and an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. His books include Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Containment after the Cold War (2000) and Regime Change: U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11 (2007).

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History and Public Policy Program

The History and Public Policy Program makes public the primary source record of 20th and 21st century international history from repositories around the world, facilitates scholarship based on those records, and uses these materials to provide context for classroom, public, and policy debates on global affairs.  Read more

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