Robert Litwak is vice president for programs and director of International Security Studies at the [Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars] in Washington D.C. He is also an adjunct professor at Georgetown University

Georgetown University

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’s School of Foreign Service and a consultant to the Los Alamos National Laboratory

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Dr. Litwak served on the National Security Council

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 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

Harvard University

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’s Center for International Affairs, the International Institute for Strategic Studies

International Institute for Strategic Studies

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, the Russian Academy of Sciences

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, Oxford University, and the United States Institute of Peace

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. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations

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, and received a doctorate in international relations from the London School of Economics

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