Participants

Anya Loukianova is a PhD student at the University of Maryland's School of Public Policy and a graduate assistant at the Center for International and Security Studies at Maryland (CISSM). Her research focuses on security cooperation and confidence-building measures in U.S.-Russian and NATO-Russian relations. From 2007-2009, she was a research associate at the Monterey Institute's James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) in Monterey, CA. At CNS, she focused on nuclear and missile developments in Russia and the newly independent states as well as U.S. nonproliferation policies, particularly civil highly enriched uranium minimization.

Eric is a JD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at Duke University. He is an adjunct staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses and has worked at the RAND Corporation. He has served on the Iran Sanctions desk in the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Intelligence. He has also advised Fortune 500 companies on U.S. sanctions law – as well as establishing sanctions compliance programs – for Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher, L.L.P. Eric is a member of the Project on Strategic Stability Evaluation at Georgia Tech and the Monterrey Institute and was previously a fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Eric has written on cyber warfare, economic sanctions, the credibility of security assurances, and civil-military relations. His most recent works include: “Executive Warmaking Authority and Offensive Cyber Operations: Can Existing Legislation Successfully Constrain Presidential Power?” 15 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law (forthcoming November 2012); “Turning a Blind Eye: Towards a Theory of Punishment in Civil-Military Relations” (with Daniel Bessner), Armed Forces and Society (Forthcoming 2012); and “Containing Iran: What Does It Mean?” (with Dalia Dassa Kaye), Middle East Policy (Spring 2012). At the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Eric is an Articles Editor on the University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, a member of the Moot Court Board, and the President of the National Security Society. Eric holds a BA, magna cum laude and with departmental honors, in political science from Columbia University, where he won the Charles Beard Prize for academic excellence. He also holds an MA in War Studies from King’s College, London, where he wrote on the influence of scientific communities on nuclear weapons programs.

Associate professor in International History, Arms Control, International Security at Beijing Language and Culture University. She acquired her BA and MA in History from Beijing Normal University before taking her PhD in International Relations at Beijing Foreign Affairs University. She studied at Centre of International Studies, University of Cambridge UK, as a visiting scholar from 2004 to 2005. Her research interests cover the areas of arms control, non-proliferation, Sino-EU Relations, NGOs, currently focus on the issues of missile defense and nuclear disarmament.

Dr. Jiegen Zhang is a research fellow at Center for South Asia Studies, Fudan University’s Institute of International Studies. He is also a member of Arms control Program directed by Professor Shen Dingli at Center for American Studies, Fudan University. During 2000-2007, he studied at Fudan University’s School of International Relations and Public Affairs as graduate student and Ph.D. student. His study interest is mainly focus on South Asia, Arms Control, Strategic and Security Issues. He is now doing some research on “Indian Ocean and China’s Maritime Security” as a Visiting Scholar at SAIS, Johns Hopkins University.

Dr. Julia Fetisova is a Consultant with the PIR Center (Russian Center for Policy Studies) in Moscow. In April-June 2012 she worked with SIPRI's Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Programme as a guest researcher looking into the prospects of NATO-Russia security cooperation. From 2010 to early 2011 she worked as a senior lecturer at Omsk State Technical University where she taught a course on national security. She holds a Ph.D. from Omsk State University (2009). Her Ph.D. dissertation was focused on the phenomenon of security culture and examined cultural determinants of states’ security behaviour, including of the so-called “critical choices” such as nuclear strategy and the use of force. In 2006 she graduated from the faculty of history at Omsk State University with specialization in regional studies and German language. Her academic interests include national security processes and outcomes, security thinking in a changing security environment, strategic culture theory, and nuclear non-proliferation / arms control.

Lt. Col LU Yin is currently an associate researcher in the Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS) of National Defense University (NDU) of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA).

She joined the PLA in 1994.  Her earlier professional career includes working as an assistant designer of the courses for foreign military students in the College of Defense Studies (CDS), NDU and later a foreign affairs officer for NDU, coordinating international academic exchange and cooperation of the university.  In 2006, she joined the Institute for Strategic Studies (ISS) of NDU and began her academic career.  Her main research areas cover arms control, disarmament, non-proliferation and regional security issues.  

In addition to her academic work in NDU, she also works as a consultant for some departments of the headquarters of the PLA and the Foreign Affairs Office of the Ministry of National Defense.

She was a visiting scholar in the Institute for Security and Development Policy in Stockholm in 2009-2010.  And she has been chosen to be one of the core members of POSSE (the Project on Strategic Stability Evaluation) , a joint project of the Center for International Strategy, Technology, and Policy (CISTP) of Georgia Institute of Technology and the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS) at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.  

In the past years, she took part in some international conferences such as Security Forum between China and South Korea, US-China Strategic Dialogue, Berlin Conference on Asian Security, the 2012 Wilton Park Conference on Global constituencies in the NPT regime etc.  As a member of official Chinese delegations, she attended the Shangri-La Dialogue in Singapore and the ADSOM PLUS meeting in Cambodia in 2012.

Her main publications include the research paper entitled Challenges to Non-Proliferation in Northeast Asia and Possible Solutions for ISDP, co-author of the book entitled Crisis Management of the Korean Peninsula and Multilateral Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific At present, she is engaged in several research projects on multilateral nuclear disarmament, the nuclear issues concerning DPRK and Iran, and China-US military to military relations.

LU Yin is married and lives in Beijing.

Nikita Perfilyev is External Relations Officer at the Preparatory Commission for the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. In 2008-2011 he was a Fulbright fellow at Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he completed an M.A. in International Policy Studies and a Certificate in Nonproliferation Studies while also serving as a Research Assistant at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. In 2007-2008 he worked at the Russian Center for Policy Studies (PIR Center) as a researcher and Security Index journal editor. During the fall of 2006, he was a Washington Group International sponsored intern at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC. He graduated with distinction from Tomsk State University in Russia and his research interests include China's nonproliferation and nuclear policy, US-Russia-China strategic relations, and Russia's energy policy.

Nina Rozhanovskaya is a PhD student at the Tomsk State University, Russia (History Department, World Politics Chair) and holds a Master of Arts degree in Political Science from the Central European University, Budapest. She has taken part in the Visiting Fellows Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey. At present Nina teaches an introductory course on nonproliferation at her university and coordinates various aspects of the TSU cooperation with the Swedish Nuclear Safety Authority, Stockholm. Her academic interests include nuclear nonproliferation, history of atomic weapons development, foreign policy decision-making, rational choice theory, and European integration.

Petr Topychkanov graduated in 2009 with his Ph.D. in History from the Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University. He is the coordinator of the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Nonproliferation Program from 2006, a senior researcher at the International Security Center of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IMEMO RAN) from 2010 and a member of the editorial board of the Nuclear Club Journal (Moscow, Russia) from 2009.

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.

He served on President Obama's nonproliferation policy advisory team during the 2008 campaign. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, where he worked with former Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig on bioterrorism policy. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute and a Visiting Scholar at the John-F.-Kennedy-Institut of the Freie Universität, both in Berlin.

He taught an undergraduate seminar at Georgetown and has also been an instructor in the Department of Defense Senior Leader Development Program for rising mid-career civilians. He first worked on weapons of mass destruction issues as a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow, hosted by the Federation of American Scientists and the Arms Control Association.

He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Government Department at Georgetown University, a master in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a bachelor's degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School. He is a Fellow of the Truman National Security Project and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Wu Riqiang, is Associate Professor at School of International Studies, Renmin University of China. He received his Ph.D. in politics from Tsinghua University in 2012. Before that, he worked for six years at the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation ?CASIC? as a missile designer. He visited MIT's Science, Technology and Global Security Working Group (STGS) during the 2009 fall semester. He was a 2010/2011 Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at CISAC (the Center for International Security and Cooperation), Stanford University. His current work focuses on arms control, including missile defense, space security, and strategic stability.

Todd S. Sechser (Ph.D., Stanford, 2007) is Assistant Professor of Politics at the University of Virginia and a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations.  His research interests include military coercion, the role of nuclear weapons in international politics, and the sources and consequences of military doctrine. Sechser's work has been published in International Organization, International Studies Quarterly, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.  His dissertation, "Winning Without a Fight: Power, Reputation, and Compellent Threats in International Crises," won the 2008 Walter Isard Award for the best dissertation in peace science.  Prior to coming to Virginia, Sechser held fellowships at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (Stanford), the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (Harvard), and the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies (Harvard).

Website: http://faculty.virginia.edu/tsechser/

Dr. ZHONG Zhenming is an Associate Professor of School of Political Science and International Relations, Tongji University. He got his Ph. D. on international relations at Fudan University in 2003 and received training in international relations pedagogy at China Foreign Affairs University in 2006. He teaches American Foreign Policy, EU Economy and Politics, and Modern History of International Relations in Tongji University. His main academic interests are international security and defense affairs, American foreign policy, EU governance and international relations theory. He has published extensively on international security and defense affairs.