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Updated: Oct 26, 2011

Dr. Fred Wehling

CNS Fellow;
Associate Professor and Program Chair for Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies,
Graduate School of International Policy and Management, MIIS

Activities

Fred Wehling is Associate Professor and Program Chair for Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies in the Graduate School of International Policy and Management at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a CNS Fellow.

In addition to teaching courses on policy analysis, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and other topics, Wehling develops online courses and instructional materials and conducts research on terrorism with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear materials (CBRN) and on ethical issues in nonproliferation and counterterrorism.

Background

Before coming to the Monterey Institute in 1998, Wehling was a consultant at RAND, Coordinator of Policy Research for the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), and a researcher at the Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) at Sandia National Laboratories.

Education

• Ph.D. in Political Science from University of California, Los Angeles, 1992
• M.A. in Instructional Science and Technology, California State University, Monterey Bay, 2006
• A.B. in International Relations and Slavic Languages, University of Southern California, 1985

Bibliography

• The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (coauthor) (Routledge, 2005)
• World Politics in a New Era, 3rd ed. (coauthor) (St. Martins, 2003)
• Irresolute Princes: Kremlin Decision Making in Middle East Crises, 1967-1973 (St Martin's, 1997).