About this Event
Join FPGS Professor Dr. Sharon Weiner, Dr. Pavel Podvig of UNDIR, and Dr. Tong Zhao of the Carnegie Endowment for this exciting event! More details to be posted later.
Bios:
Tong Zhao is a Senior Fellow at the Nuclear Policy Program and the China Center of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Formerly based in Beijing, he now conducts research in Washington on nuclear deterrence, nonproliferation, arms control, emerging military technologies, China’s security policy, and regional security in the Asia-Pacific. With a technical background, he also serves as a nonresident researcher with Princeton University’s Science and Global Security Program. He is the author of “Political Drivers of China’s Changing Nuclear Policy: Implications for U.S.-China Nuclear Relations and International Security”, “Tides of Change: China’s Nuclear Ballistic Missile Submarines and Strategic Stability” and “Narrowing the U.S.-China Gap on Missile Defense: How to Help Forestall a Nuclear Arms Race.”
Pavel Podvig is an independent analyst based in Geneva, where he runs his research project, "Russian Nuclear Forces." He is also a Senior Researcher at the UN Institute for Disarmament Research and a researcher with the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University. Pavel Podvig started his work on arms control at the Center for Arms Control Studies at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), which was the first independent research organization in Russia dedicated to analysis of technical issues of disarmament and nonproliferation. Pavel Podvig led the Center for Arms Control Studies project that produced the book, Russian Strategic Nuclear Forces (MIT Press, 2001). In recognition of his work in Russia, the American Physical Society awarded Podvig the Leo Szilard Lectureship Award of 2008 (with Anatoli Diakov). Podvig worked with the Program on Science and Global Security at Princeton University, the Security Studies Program at MIT, and the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. His current research focuses on the Russian strategic forces and nuclear weapons complex, as well as technical and political aspects of nuclear nonproliferation, disarmament, missile defense, and U.S.-Russian arms control process. Pavel Podvig is a member of the International Panel on Fissile Materials. He has a physics degree from MIPT and PhD in political science from the Moscow Institute of World Economy and International Relations.
Dr. Sharon K. Weiner is Associate Professor at the School of International Service. Her research, teaching, and policy engagement is at the intersection of organizational politics and U.S. national security. Her current work focuses on civil-military relations and on nuclear weapon programs and nonproliferation but she also pursues research and teaching interests in international security and U.S. relations with South Asia.
From August 2014 through February 2017 Weiner served as a program examiner with the National Security Division of the White House Office of Management and Budget, where she had responsibility for budget and policy issues related to nuclear weapons and nonproliferation.
Previously, she worked for the Armed Services Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives and has held research positions at the Los Alamos National Laboratory Center for National Security Studies and at Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security. Weiner’s book “Our Own Worst Enemy? Institutional Interests and the Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Expertise” (MIT Press 2011) explored the role of organizational and partisan politics in the success and failure of U.S. cooperative nonproliferation programs with the former Soviet Union. The book won the 2012 Louis Brownlow award from the U.S. National Academy of Public Administration for its “outstanding contribution to the literature of public administration [and] new insights and original ideas about the role and behavior of governmental institutions and programs in the area of national security.” Her scholarly work has appeared in International Security, Political Science Quarterly, Polity, The Nonproliferation Review, Daedalus, Contemporary Security Policy, as well as other journals. She is currently finishing a book on U.S. civil-military relations and the organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and working on a project that looks at the political economy of plutonium in the United States. She holds a PhD in Political Science from MIT’s Security Studies Program. Her other awards include:
- Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, 2018
- Darrell Randall Award for Service to the Community, SIS, 2017
- Nuclear Challenge Grant, MacArthur Foundation, 2015-2016
- Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in Nuclear Security, 2014-2015
- F. Gunther Eyck Award for Service, SIS, 2015
- Outstanding Scholarship, Research, and Professional Contributions, SIS, 2013
- Louis Brownlow Award, U.S. National Academy of Public Administration, 2012
- William Crowell Award for Outstanding Teaching, SIS, 2011
- Visiting Scholar Fellowship, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005-2006
- Robert Jay Lifton Fellowship for Teaching Nuclear Weapons Issues, 2004-2005
- Scholar of Vision Award, Carnegie Corporation of New York, 2001-2003
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
American University, School of International Service, Founders Room, 4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, United States
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