FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 10/24/05
CONTACT: Jennifer Linker, 202/939-2372, jlinker@CarnegieEndowment.org
 
Olivier Minkwitz, a leading arms control expert with the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, Germany (PRIF), has joined the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a Visiting Scholar.  Minkwitz is studying U.S. military strategy as part of a PRIF project on democracies the “Revolution in Military Affairs.” 
 
“We are excited to have Olivier join our research team,” said Joseph Cirincione, Director for Non-Proliferation, who is hosting the scholar for the three months of his stay.  “His knowledge of both U.S. and German defense policies as well cyber technology’s impact on military and proliferation strategies are a welcome complement to our work at Carnegie.”
 
Minkwitz contributes to a biweekly German radio show commenting on military strategy and foreign affairs.  He is a familiar face on both French and German television and also writes for several newspapers.  Minkwitz specializes on United States and German foreign and defense policies, specifically arms control and proliferation.
 
He has published many articles, reports and contributed to several books.  Recent publications include Waging War Without Restraint? Cyberwar and Its Consequences (in German HSFK-Reports, NR. 10, 2003) Internationale Rüstungskontrolle und Abrüstung, (in Knapp, Manfred/Krell, Gerd (Ed.), Einführung in die internationale Politik, München: Oldenbourg, S. 551-586, Minkwitz, Olivier/Krell, Gerd/Schörnig, Niklas, 2004). 
 
Minkwitz is completing his dissertation on U.S. defense policy at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University of Frankfurt and is a graduate in political science from Otto-Suhr Institute of the Free University, Berlin.
 
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a leading source for educators, policy makers and the media on the threat of nuclear weapons and missile systems and maintains a comprehensive proliferation web site at ProliferationNews.org. 
 
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