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Philipp Bleek

Visiting Fellow, International Security Program

Associated Research Focus:

International Security
Terrorism & Transnational Threats

Associated Programs:

International Security Program

Expertise:

Nuclear, biological, chemical, radiological weapons proliferation to state and nonstate actors

Contact:

(202) 775-3244
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Philipp Bleek is a visiting fellow with the CSIS International Security Program and a doctoral candidate in international relations at Georgetown University. His research interests include weapons proliferation to both state and nonstate actors, particularly fissile materials and their role in nuclear proliferation. At CSIS, he works with Richard Danzig, former secretary of the navy, on bioterrorism issues. Bleek’s articles on international security have been published through the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Center for a New American Security, the CSIS Strengthening the Global Partnership project, the Nonproliferation Review, and the Kennedy School Review. His commentaries have appeared in the Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Boston Globe, Houston Chronicle, Miami Herald, and through the Knight-Ridder/Tribune and Scripps-Howard news services. His security-related broadcast interviews include Voice of America, DeutschlandRadio, Radio New Zealand, Radio Netherlands, CTV, and local U.S. radio and television stations. Bleek holds an M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and a B.A. from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He spent three years as an analyst with the Arms Control Association in Washington, where his portfolio included strategic and tactical nuclear weapons policy, nuclear testing, U.S.-Russia relations, and threat reduction efforts in the former Soviet Union. He began his professional work on nonproliferation issues as a Herbert Scoville Jr. Peace Fellow, hosted by the Federation of American Scientists and the Arms Control Association.

 

 

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