Senior Research Fellow, Institute of World History, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
Sixty years have passed since the day when in San Francisco representatives of 51 countries, by signing the Charter, laid the foundation of the United Nations, an organization that at the moment symbolized the success of freedom-loving nations in World War II and their determination to prevent the repetition of deadly conflicts in the future by means of peaceful cooperation. However, the debates a...
A journalist, Ilan has written for The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Slate, US News & World Report, The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, and Travel & Leisure, among other publications.
A 2007 – 2009 Journalism Fellow at The Asia Society, he was the recipient of the 2008 Lange-Taylor Prize, and was the recipient of a Knight International Journalism Fellowship, a Ruhr Grant from the University of Dortmund and the Erich Brost Institute for International Journalism, as well as grants from the Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting and The Nation Institute. Last fall he was a jou...
W.M. Keck Foundation Professor of International Strategic Studies and Senior Research Associate, Keck Center for International and Strategic Studies, Claremont McKenna College and Claremont Graduate University
EducationPh.D., International Relations, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Senior Historian, Defense Threat Reduction Agency, U.S. Department of Defense
As the Cold War drew to its close, I was hired as a public historian to document, research, and write a historical report on how the United States government was preparing for and then conducting arms control inspections under the Intermediate-Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1989. A bilateral treaty with the Soviet Union, this precedent-setting arms reduction treaty mandated the elimination of 2,700 nucl...
Professor in Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service where he is also the Director of both the Center for Security Studies and of the Security Studies Program.
Professor Bruce Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for more than thirty-five years. Professor Hoffman previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and was also Director of RAND’s Washington, D.C. Office. He was Scholar-in-Residence for Counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006; an a...
Professor of International Affairs, Georgetown University
Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
I have spent most of my career working at the intersetion of academia and public policy. After a first teaching job at Princeton, I opted for a stint in the government, working on the National Security Council during the first Clinton administration. Since the mid-1990s, I have been a professor at Georgetown University and a senior fellow at the council on Foreign Relations. I have also served as...
Robert Litwak is Vice President for Scholars and Director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a Consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.Dr. Litwak served on the National Security Council staff as Director for Nonproliferation in...
Professor, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Over the past 20-odd years I have written a series of books with the common characteristic that a novel conceptual view is developed—-or in the later books an elaboration or extension of such a view-—which is then applied to an important empirical issue. This has proven to yield substantial novel insights into the empirical material. The main empirical results of the earlier work are a...
Sixty years have passed since the day when in San Francisco representatives of 51 countries, by signing the Charter, laid the foundation of the United Nations, an organization that at the moment symbolized the success of freedom-loving nations in World War II and their determination to prevent the repetition of deadly conflicts in the future by means of peaceful cooperation. However, the debates a...
As the Cold War drew to its close, I was hired as a public historian to document, research, and write a historical report on how the United States government was preparing for and then conducting arms control inspections under the Intermediate-Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1989. A bilateral treaty with the Soviet Union, this precedent-setting arms reduction treaty mandated the elimination of 2,700 nucl...
Robert Litwak is Vice President for Scholars and Director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and a Consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.Dr. Litwak served on the National Security Council staff as Director for Nonproliferation in...
Over the past 20-odd years I have written a series of books with the common characteristic that a novel conceptual view is developed—-or in the later books an elaboration or extension of such a view-—which is then applied to an important empirical issue. This has proven to yield substantial novel insights into the empirical material. The main empirical results of the earlier work are a...