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Updated: Nov 9, 2012

Dr. Philipp C. Bleek

CNS Fellow and Assistant Professor, Graduate School of International Policy and Management

Activities

Philipp Bleek is a Fellow at CNS and an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of International Policy and Management.

During the 2012-13 academic year, he will take a faculty leave to serve as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical, and Biological Defense Programs under a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship in Nuclear Security.

Areas of Research

• Causes, consequences, and amelioration of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons proliferation

Background

Dr. Bleek is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a fellow of the Truman National Security Project. He has held fellowships at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Center for a New American Security. He served on President Obama's nonproliferation policy team during the 2008 campaign and has been a consultant to the U.S. government on proliferation issues. He has taught at Georgetown University and in the Department of Defense Senior Leader Development Program. He began his work on nonproliferation issues as a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow working at the Federation of American Scientists and the Arms Control Association.

Education

• Ph.D. in international relations from Georgetown University's Department of Government
• M.A. in public policy from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government
• B.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs

Bibliography (Recent)

• "Turkey and America Face Iran" (with Aaron Stein) Survival: Global Politics and Strategy, Volume 54, Issue 2 (April-May 2012), pp. 27-38.


• "Arms Control and Nonproliferation" (with David Vielhaber) in Simon Koschut and Magnus-Sebastian Kutz (eds.), U.S. Foreign Policy: Theory, Process, Subject Areas, Regions (Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2012).


• [German] "Abrüsting und Nichtweiterverbreitung" (mit David Vielhaber) in Simon Koschut und Magnus-Sebastian Kutz (hrsg.), Außenpolitik USA: Theorie - Prozess - Politikfelder - Regionen (Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2012).


• "Chemical Weapons and Public Health" (with Ernest C. Lee and Stefanos N. Kales) in Barry S. Levy and Victor W. Sidel (eds.) Terrorism and Public Health, 2nd Edition (Oxford University Press, 2011).


• "Why Do States Proliferate? Quantitative Analysis of the Exploration, Pursuit, and Acquisition of Nuclear Weapons" in William C. Potter with Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova (eds.), Forecasting Nuclear Proliferation in the 21st Century: The Role of Theory (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2010).