Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, USA
James Acton is an Associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. A physicist by training, Acton is co-author of the Adelphi Paper, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, and co-editor of the follow-up book, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate. He is currently a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials.
Ian Anthony
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Sweden
Ian Anthony is currently Director of Research and Head of the Arms Control and Nonproliferation Programme at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Dr. Anthony received his PhD from the University of London. He is the editor of four volumes and the author of five monographs, the most recent of which are Reforming Nuclear Export Controls: The Future of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), and Reducing Threats at the Source: A European Perspective on Cooperative Threat Reduction (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004).
Alexei G. Arbatov
Carnegie Moscow Center, Russia
Alexei G. Arbatov was the Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee of the State Duma in the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from 1993 to 2003, where he was responsible for Russia’s defense budget, arms control treaties, and defense industries. At present he is the Head of the Center on International Security in IMEMO (Russian Academy of Sciences) and the head of the project on nuclear nonproliferation in the Carnegie Moscow Center. He has published five individual books and numerous chapters, papers, and articles on international security and strategic issues, including Lethal Frontiers: A Soviet View on Nuclear Weapons (Praeger, 1988), Security: Russia’s Choice (Epicenter, 1999), Beyond Deterrence with Vladimir Dworkin (Carnegie, 2008), and The Security Equation (Yabloko, 2010).
Nadia Alexandrova-Arbatova
Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Moscow
Nadia Alexandrova-Arbatova is Head of the Department on European Political Studies at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO), Russian Academy of Sciences. Her recent publications include Russia and Europe, the Foreign Policy of Yeltsin Russia (Stockholm: Forsvarshogskolan, 2001), “The Russia-EU Common Space of External Security: Imperatives and Obstacles,” Security Index 3, no. 86 (2009) (in Russian and English), “The Impact of the Caucasus Crisis on Regional and European Security,” Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 9, no. 3 (September 2009): 287–300.
Avner Cohen
James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Avner Cohen is a Senior Fellow at the Washington office of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies. He wrote this paper while he was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC. He is the author and co-editor of Nuclear Weapons and the Future of Humanity (1986), The Institution of Philosophy (1989), and the author of The Nuclear Age as Moral History (in Hebrew, 1989), Israel and the Bomb (1998), and The Worst Kept Secret: Israel’s Bargain with the Bomb (2010).
Marco De Andreis
Fondazione Ugo La Malfa, Italy
Marco De Andreis has published extensively on international security and international political economy, and has worked on energy projects in association with the Fondazione Ugo La Malfa, Rome. He is now Director of Economic Studies at Italy’s Customs Agency. He has also served as political advisor to Italy’s Minister of European Affairs, in Rome, and to a European Commissioner, in Brussels.
Peter Dombrowski
Naval War College, USA
Peter J. Dombrowski is Professor and Chair of the Naval War College’s Strategic Research Department and an Adjunct Professor at the Watson Institute, Brown University. He holds a BA in political science from Williams College, and an MA and PhD in political science from the University of Maryland. He is the co-author with Eugene Gholz of Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry, among other publications.
Stanford University, USA
Lynn Eden is Associate Director for Research and a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University. She is also Co-chair of U.S. Pugwash. Eden’s most recent book, Whole World on Fire: Organizations, Knowledge, and Nuclear Weapons Devastation, won the American Sociological Association’s 2004 Robert K. Merton Award for best book in science, knowledge, and technology.
Matthew Evangelista
Cornell University, USA
Matthew Evangelista is President White Professor of History and Political Science and Chair of the Department of Government at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, where he teaches courses in international and comparative politics. He is the author of four books: Innovation and the Arms Race (1988), Unarmed Forces: The Transnational Movement to End the Cold War (1999), The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? (2002), and Law, Ethics, and the War on Terror (2008), and the editor of several others.
Dennis M. Gormley
University of Pittsburgh, USA
Dennis M. Gormley is on the faculty of the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also a Senior Research Fellow at the university’s Matthew B. Ridgway Center for International Studies. His most recent book is Missile Contagion: Cruise Missile Proliferation and the Threat to International Security (Praeger, 2008), while his journal articles have appeared in Survival, the Washington Quarterly, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Nonproliferation Review, Orbis, and others.
David Holloway
Stanford University, USA
David Holloway is the Raymond A. Spruance Professor in International History, Professor of Political Science and of History, and Senior Fellow at the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of The Soviet Union and the Arms Race (1983) and Stalin and the Bomb: The Soviet Union and Atomic Energy, 1939–1956 (1994). With Sidney Drell and Philip Farley he wrote The Reagan Strategic Defense Initiative: A Technical, Political, and Arms Control Assessment (1985).
Venance Journé
International Center on Environment and Development, France
Venance Journé is a researcher at the International Center on Environment and Development (CIRED-CNRS) in France. Her recent publications include: From Chernobyl to Chernobyl with Georges Charpak and Richard L. Garwin (2005), and “The Real Story behind the Making of the French Hydrogen Bomb: Chaotic, Unsupported, but Successful” with Pierre Billaud, Non-Proliferation Review (July 2008). She has long been active in Pugwash, including serving on the Executive Council, and recently prepared the publication in French of the text, history, and context of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission Report (the Blix Commission).
Catherine McArdle Kelleher
Brown University and University of Maryland, USA
Catherine McArdle Kelleher is a Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute, Brown University, a College Park Professor at the University of Maryland, and Professor Emerita at the U.S. Naval War College. For nearly a decade she led the Dialogue of Americans, Russians, and Europeans (DARE), based first at Aspen Berlin and then at the Watson Institute, Brown University. In the Clinton administration she was the Personal Representative of the Secretary of Defense in Europe and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. She is the author of more than seventy books and articles and founder of Women in International Security (WIIS).
Jeffrey Lewis
Monterey Institute for International Studies, USA
Jeffrey G. Lewis is Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute for International Studies. Dr. Lewis founded and maintains the leading blog on nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, ArmsControlWonk.com. He is the author of Minimum Means of Reprisal: China’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age (MIT Press, 2007).
Jill Marie Lewis
Physicians for Social Responsibility, USA
Jill Marie Lewis is now a Foreign Affairs Specialist for the National Nuclear Security Administration at the U.S. Department of Energy. She wrote her chapter for this volume while serving as Deputy Director for Security Programs at Physicians for Social Responsibility, where her work focused on domestic and international nuclear weapon and energy policy, and promoting scientific engagement opportunities with Iran.
Simon Moore
University of Maryland, USA
Simon Moore is a Research Associate, Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM), where he specializes in energy security policy, focusing at present on cooperative policies in energy resourcing in Eastern Europe. Previously he was lead researcher in London for the Stockholm Network’s energy and environment program, and edited Beyond the Borders, on reform movements in non-EU Europe.
University of Hamburg, Germany
Götz Neuneck is Deputy Director at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy, and head of the Interdisciplinary Group for Arms Control and Disarmament. He is a member of the Council of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG)/German Physical Society; Chairman of the working group “Physik und Abrustung”/Physics and Disarmament of the DPG, and Pugwash representative of the Verband Deutscher Wissenschaftler (VDW)/Association of German Scientists, as well as a member of the Council of Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. His most recent publication is South Asia at a Crossroads: Conflict or Cooperation in the Age of Nuclear Weapons, Missile Defense, and Space Rivalries (Baden-Baden, 2010), for which he is coeditor (with Subrata Ghoshroy).
Laicie Olson
Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, USA
Laicie Olson is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, where her work focuses on global weapons proliferation and military spending. Olson has published research on the annual defense budget, Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, U.S.-India nuclear deal, and Iran, and she is a regular contributor to the blog Nukes of Hazard.
Judith Reppy
Cornell University, USA
Judith Reppy is Professor Emerita in the Department of Science and Technology Studies and Associate Director of the Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies at Cornell University. From 1995 to 2000, she served as Co-chair of the U.S. Pugwash Conferences on Science and International Affairs. Reppy is the co-editor and contributing author of The Genesis of New Weapons: Decision Making for Military R and D, and The Relations between Defense and Civil Technologies, among other publications.
Randy Rydell
United Nations, USA
Randy Rydell is Senior Political Affairs Officer in the Office of Mr. Sergio Duarte, the High Representative for Disarmament Affairs at the United Nations. He served from January 2005 to June 2006 as Senior Counsellor and Report Director of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission (Blix Commission) and Senior Fellow at the Arms Control Association in Washington, DC.
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
East-West Institute, New York
Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu is Vice President of Program at the East West Institute in New York. Prior to this he was the Director of the New Issues in Security Course at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy. Dr. Sidhu has researched, written, and taught extensively on the United Nations, disarmament, arms control, and nonproliferation issues. His recent publications include: Arms Control after Iraq: Normative and Operational Challenges, and Kashmir: New Voices, New Approaches. He has published extensively in leading international journals, including Arms Control Today, Asian Survey, Disarmament Diplomacy, Disarmament Forum, International Peacekeeping, Jane’s Intelligence Review, Politique Etrangère, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.