George Perkovich is vice president for studies and director of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His research focuses on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a focus on South Asia and Iran, and on the problem of justice in the international political economy.

He is the author of the award-winning book India's Nuclear Bomb (University of California Press, 2001). He is co-author of the Adelphi Paper, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons, published in September 2008 by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. This paper is the basis of the book, Abolishing Nuclear Weapons: A Debate, which includes 17 critiques by 13 eminent international commentators. Perkovich is also co-author of a major Carnegie report, Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security, a blueprint for rethinking the international nuclear nonproliferation regime. The report offers a fresh approach to deal with states and terrorists, nuclear weapons, and fissile materials to ensure global safety and security.

He served as a speechwriter and foreign policy adviser to Senator Joe Biden from 1989 to 1990. Perkovich is an adviser to the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations' Task Force on U.S. Nuclear Policy.

Areas of Expertise

Perkovich is an expert in U.S. foreign policy, nonproliferation, security, global governance, non-governmental actors, India, Iran, and Pakistan.

Education

B.A., University of California at Santa Cruz; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of Virginia

Languages

French; Russian

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Environmental Policy, Energy Security, Security & Defense, Energy, Environment,