Contributors

Nadezhda Arbatova (Nadia Alexandrova-Arbatova) holds a PhD in political science, the title of professor, and is currently Head of the Department of European Political Studies at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) at the Russian Academy of Sciences. She is also Director of the discussion forum “European Dialogues,” Vice President of the Russian Pugwash Committee, a member of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy, and the author of numerous publications, including four individual monographs and brochures on EU-Russia relations, European security, and Russia’s foreign policy. Her professional interests include international relations, European integration, EU-Russia relations, European security, Russian foreign policy, and conflict prevention.
 

George Perkovich is Vice President for Studies in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He is the author of the prizewinning book, India’s Nuclear Bomb (University of California Press, 1999), and coauthor of Not War, Not Peace? Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border Terrorism (Oxford University Press, 2016). He has advised many agencies of the U.S. government on nuclear policy and testified before both houses of Congress. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Arms Control and International Security and the Council on Foreign Relations’ Task Force on Nuclear Policy. He was a speech writer and foreign policy advisor to Senator Joe Biden from 1989 to 1990.
 

Paul van Hooft is a Senior Strategic Analyst at the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies, where he heads the Europe in the Indo-Pacific program, the Future of Transatlantic Relations program, and the Strategic Stability, Deterrence, and Arms Control program. Van Hooft attained his PhD in political science from the University of Amsterdam. He was a postdoctoral fellow from 2018 to 2020 at the Security Studies Program of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, including as a 2018–2019 Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow. Van Hooft was also a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute from 2016 to 2018. His research has been published in Security Studies, International Politics, and War on the Rocks. He has also contributed to volumes on the future of war, extended nuclear deterrence, and NATO enlargement.