Carnegie Experts on Defense and Security

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  James M. Acton

  Senior Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Acton is a senior associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. A physicist by training, Acton specializes in nonproliferation, deterrence, and disarmament.

 
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  Muthiah Alagappa

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Asia Program

  Alagappa is the Tun Hussein Onn Chair in international studies at the Institute of Strategic and International Studies in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His research focuses primarily on Asian security, the political legitimacy of governments, civil society and political change, and the political role of the military in Asia.

 
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  Alexei Arbatov

  Scholar in Residence
  Nonproliferation Program
  Moscow Center

  Arbatov, a former member of the State Duma, is the author of a number of books and numerous articles and papers on issues of global security, strategic stability, disarmament, and Russian military reform.

 
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  Nathan Brown

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Middle East Program

  Brown, a professor of political science and international affairs at George Washington University, is a distinguished scholar and author of six well-received books on Arab politics.

 
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  Sarah Chayes

  Senior Associate
  South Asia Program

  Chayes, formerly special adviser to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is an expert in South Asia policy, kleptocracy and anticorruption, and civil-military relations.

 
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  Shahram Chubin

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Chubin, who is based in Geneva, focuses his research on nonproliferation, terrorism, and Middle East security issues. He was director of studies at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Switzerland, from 1996 to 2009.

 
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  Gilles Dorronsoro

  Nonresident Scholar
  South Asia Program

  Dorronsoro’s research focuses on security and political development in Afghanistan. He was a professor of political science at the Sorbonne in Paris and the Institute of Political Studies of Rennes.

 
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  Anas El Gomati

  Visiting Fellow
  Carnegie Middle East Center

  El Gomati is a visiting fellow at the Carnegie Middle East Center, where his research focuses on socioeconomics, democratic governance, the security sector, and political Islam in Libya.

 
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  Evan A. Feigenbaum

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Asia Program

  Feigenbaum’s work focuses principally on China and India, geopolitics in Asia, and the role of the United States in East, Central, and South Asia. His previous positions include deputy assistant secretary of state for South Asia, deputy assistant secretary of state for Central Asia, and member of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff with principal responsibility for East Asia and the Pacific.

 
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  François Godement

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Asia Program

  Godement, an expert on Chinese and East Asian strategic and international affairs, is a nonresident senior associate in the Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

 
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  Frederic Grare

  Director and Senior Associate
  South Asia Program

  Grare is senior associate and director of Carnegie’s South Asia Program. His research focuses on security issues and democratization in India, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Previously, he led the Asia bureau at the Directorate for Strategic Affairs in the French Ministry of Defense.

 
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  Paul Haenle

  Director
  Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

  Haenle served as the director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolian Affairs on the National Security Council staffs of former president George W. Bush and President Barack Obama prior to joining Carnegie.

 

• Kristina Kudlaenko

  Program Coordinator
  Moscow Center
 

• Fatima Kukeyeva

  Co-director
  al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia

  Kukeyeva is co-director of the al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia.

 
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  Li Bin

  Senior Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program and Asia Program

  Li is a senior associate working jointly in the Nuclear Policy Program and Asia Program at the Carnegie Endowment.

 
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  Alexey Malashenko

  Scholar in Residence
  Religion, Society, and Security Program
  Moscow Center

  Malashenko is the co-chair of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Religion, Society, and Security Program. He also taught at the Higher School of Economics from 2007 to 2008 and was a professor at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations from 2000 to 2006.

 
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  Jessica Tuchman Mathews

  President

  Mathews is president of the Carnegie Endowment. Before her appointment in 1997, her career included posts in both the executive and legislative branches of government, in management and research in the nonprofit arena, and in journalism and science policy.

 
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  C. Raja Mohan

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  South Asia Program

  Mohan is a nonresident senior associate in Carnegie’s South Asia Program, where his research focuses on international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues.

 
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  Marwan Muasher

  Vice President for Studies

  Muasher is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, where he oversees the Endowment’s research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East.

 
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  Martha Brill Olcott

  Senior Associate
  Russia and Eurasia Program and
  Co-director
  al-Farabi Carnegie Program on Central Asia

  Olcott is professor emerita at Colgate University, having taught political science there from 1974 to 2002. Prior to her work at the endowment, Olcott served as a special consultant to former secretary of state Lawrence Eagleburger.

 
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  Douglas H. Paal

  Vice President for Studies

  Paal previously served as vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase International and as unofficial U.S. representative to Taiwan as director of the American Institute in Taiwan.

 
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  George Perkovich

  Vice President for Studies

  Perkovich’s research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a concentration on South Asia, Iran, and the problem of justice in the international political economy.

 
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  Iskander Rehman

  Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Rehman is an associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow. His research focuses on security and crisis stability in Asia, specifically the geopolitical ramifications of naval nuclearization in the Indian Ocean.

 
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  David Rothkopf

  Visiting Scholar

  Rothkopf, author of the recent book Power, Inc.: The Epic Rivalry Between Big Business and Government and the Reckoning that Lies Ahead, served as deputy undersecretary of commerce for international trade policy in the Clinton administration.

 
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  Lora Saalman

  Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program

  Saalman is a Beijing-based associate in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment whose research focuses on Chinese nuclear-weapon and nonproliferation policies and Sino-Indian strategic relations.

 
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  Karim Sadjadpour

  Senior Associate
  Middle East Program

  Sadjadpour, a leading researcher on Iran, has conducted dozens of interviews with senior Iranian officials and hundreds with Iranian intellectuals, clerics, dissidents, paramilitaries, businessmen, students, activists, and youth, among others.

 
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  Yezid Sayigh

  Senior Associate
  Middle East Center

  Sayigh is a senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, where his work focuses on the Syrian crisis, the political role of Arab armies, security sector transformation in Arab transitions, the reinvention of authoritarianism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and peace process.

 
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  James L. Schoff

  Senior Associate
  Asia Program

  Schoff is a senior associate in the Carnegie Asia Program. His research focuses on U.S.-Japanese relations and regional engagement, Japanese politics and security, and the private sector’s role in Japanese policymaking.

 
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  Paul Schulte

  Nonresident Senior Associate
  Nuclear Policy Program and Carnegie Europe

  Schulte is a nonresident senior associate in the Carnegie Nuclear Policy Program and at Carnegie Europe, where his research focuses on the future of deterrence, nuclear strategy, nuclear nonproliferation, cybersecurity, and their political implications.

 
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  Michael Swaine

  Senior Associate
  Asia Program

  Swaine is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and one of the most prominent American analysts in Chinese security studies.

 
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  Stephen Tankel

  Nonresident Scholar
  South Asia Program

  Tankel is a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment, where his research focuses on insurgency, terrorism, and the evolution of nonstate armed groups.

 
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  Ashley J. Tellis

  Senior Associate
  South Asia Program

  Tellis is a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace specializing in international security, defense, and Asian strategic issues.

 
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  Petr Topychkanov

  Associate
  Nonproliferation Program
  Moscow Center

  Topychkanov is an associate in the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Nonproliferation Program.

 
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  Dmitri Trenin

  Director
  Moscow Center

  Dmitri Trenin, director of the Carnegie Moscow Center, has been with the center since its inception. He also chairs the research council and the Foreign and Security Policy Program.

 
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  Kevin Tu

  Senior Associate
  Energy and Climate Program

  Tu is a senior associate in Carnegie’s Energy and Climate Program, where he leads the organization’s work on China’s energy and climate policies.

 
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  Wang Tao

  Resident Scholar
  Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

  Wang, an expert on climate and energy issues, runs a program at the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy that examines China’s climate and energy policies, with particular attention to international climate negotiation, coal, and transportation.

 
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  Frederic Wehrey

  Senior Associate
  Middle East Program

  Wehrey’s research focuses on political reform and security issues in the Arab Gulf states, Libya, and U.S. policy in the Middle East more broadly. He was previously a senior policy analyst at the RAND Corporation.

 
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  Yan Xuetong

  President, Carnegie-Tsinghua Management Board
  Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy

  Yan Xuetong is one of China’s leading experts on China’s foreign policy, national security, and U.S.-China relations. At Tsinghua University, he is dean of the Institute of Modern International Relations.