Dr. Robert Litwak is Senior Vice President and Director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is also a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Over the last 20 years he has also held government positions, and written numerous books. His expertise center on security and defense, nuclear weapons and terrorism.
Dr. Robert Litwak is Senior Vice President and Director of International Security Studies at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is also a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Dr. Litwak served on the National Security Council staff as director for non-proliferation in the Clinton administration. He was an adjunct Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and 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.
His expertise center on security and defense, intelligence, international security, nuclear proliferation/non-proliferation, nuclear weapons, terrorism, national security and U.S. foreign policy.
His most recent books are Nuclear Crises with North Korea and Iran: From Transformational to Transactional Diplomacy, Outlier States: American Strategies to Contain, Engage, or Change Regimes; Regime Change: U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11; and Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Containment after the Cold War.
He received a doctorate in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
Articles
A Tripolar Nuclear World: Challenges to Strategic Stability
"'And then there were three,' declared the Economist magazine in late 2022, in response to China’s expansion of its strategic nuclear forces with the apparent...
Tripolar Instability: Nuclear Competition Among the United States, Russia, and China
"With China’s emergence as a peer nuclear power to the United States and Russia, nuclear bipolarity is being supplanted by a tripolar nuclear order. This...