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Robert S. Litwak
Vice President for Programs and Director , International Security Studies
Phone: 202/691-4179
Email: robert.litwak@wilsoncenter.org

Affiliation
Vice President for Programs and Director

Expertise
U.S. foreign policy; international security and nonproliferation

Experience
Former director for Nonproliferation,
National Security Council, White House; adjunct professor, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; consultant, Los Alamos National Laboratory


 

Major Publications


  • Regime Change: U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11 (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007)
  • Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Containment after the Cold War (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
  • Nuclear Proliferation after the Cold War, co-editor (Woodrow Wilson Center Press and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994)
  • Détente and the Nixon Doctrine: American Foreign Policy and the Pursuit of Stability, 1969-1976 (Cambridge University Press, 1984)

Biography
Robert Litwak is vice president for programs 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 the first Clinton administration.

His most recent books are Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Containment after the Cold War and Regime Change: U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11.

Dr. Litwak has held visiting fellowships at Harvard University’s Center for International Affairs, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Russian Academy of Sciences, Oxford University, and the United States Institute of Peace. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and received a doctorate in international relations from the London School of Economics.

Education
Ph.D., International Relations, London School of Economics; B.A., Haverford College

Honors
Fellow, Center for International Affairs and Russian Research Center, Harvard University; executive fellow, United States Institute of Peace; member, Council on Foreign Relations

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Record updated: 10/05/2009



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