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Rose Gottemoeller
Nonresident Senior Fellow, Nuclear Policy Program

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Rose Gottemoeller is a nonresident senior fellow in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program. She also serves as lecturer at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.

From 2016 to 2019, Gottemoeller served as the deputy secretary general of NATO, where she helped shape NATO’s counterterrorism strategy and response to new security challenges in Europe.

Prior to NATO, Gottemoeller served for nearly five years as the undersecretary for arms control and international security at the U.S. Department of State. She was previously the assistant secretary for arms control, verification, and compliance in 2009-2010, during which she was the principal U.S. negotiator for the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with the Russian Federation.

From 2000 to 2005, Gottemoeller was director of the Carnegie Moscow Center and was a senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment in Washington D.C., where she had a joint appointment to the Russia and Eurasia and Nuclear Policy Programs (then known as the Nonproliferation Project).

Before joining Carnegie in 2000, Gottemoeller was the deputy undersecretary for defense nuclear nonproliferation in the U.S. Department of Energy. Previously, she served as the department’s assistant secretary for nonproliferation and national security, with responsibility for all nonproliferation cooperation with Russia and the Newly Independent States. She first joined the department in November 1997 as director of the Office of Nonproliferation and National Security.

Prior to the Energy Department, Gottemoeller served for three years as deputy director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She has also served on the National Security Council in the White House as director for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia Affairs, with responsibility for denuclearization in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Belarus. Previously, she was a social scientist at RAND and a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow.


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A Ramp-Up in Nuclear Weapons is Not Always a Bad Thing

The People’s Republic of China is currently on a nuclear tear, building up its arsenal from roughly 500 warheads today to as many as 1,500 by 2035. 

· September 5, 2024
Financial Times
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The Changing Nuclear Mind Game

Russia’s nuclear threats to reach conventional goals in Ukraine mark a new era of brinkmanship.

· May 15, 2024
Foreign Policy
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Ukraine and the Mind Games of Nuclear Deterrence

The process of stopping escalation involves multiple actors on the battlefield and in several capitals.

· March 22, 2024
Financial Times
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Assessing Russia’s Nuclear Threats

Following the Cold War, the US and Russia entered into a series of arms control treaties that gave the world hope that, one day, nuclear weapons may be a thing of the past.

· March 13, 2024
Munk Debates
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Why Does NATO Matter to America?

As funding for Ukraine stalls in Congress and Donald Trump ramps up his anti-nato rhetoric, Europe is having to think about how it would manage its security without the us. Why does nato matter to America?

· February 23, 2024
Checks and Balance Podcast (The Economist)
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How Ukraine Can Win, According to NATO’s Former Deputy Secretary General

A conversation on Kyiv's pathway to victory in its war against Russia.

· February 8, 2024
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The World in Focus: Uncertainty and the Global Outlook for 2024
January 31, 2024

In order to explore the complexities of our rapidly changing world, the Malcolm H. Kerr Carnegie Middle East Center will examine pressing global issues through four engaging panel discussions in a one-day event, under the collective title, “The World in Focus: Uncertainty and the Global Outlook for 2024.”

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Ukraine Has a Pathway to Victory

Why the new conventional wisdom that the war is a stalemate favoring Russia is wrong.

· January 8, 2024
Foreign Policy
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America Should Look To Its Own Past in Supporting Ukraine’s Naval Battle

The ‘mosquito navy’ is successfully punching above its weight in the Black Sea.

· November 13, 2023
The Financial Times
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Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers: A Stable Channel in Unstable Times

Whatever the future possibilities, the Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers have fulfilled a good deal of the promise for which they were established in the 1980s. The question for today is, how can we get them to do more to lower nuclear risks?

· October 31, 2023
Stanley Center for Peace and Security