Andrey Baklitskiy: Is There a Future for Russia-U.S. Nuclear Arms Control?

Lunch will be provided.
Andrey Baklitskiy is a Consultant at PIR Center in Moscow. He is also a Visiting Research Fellow at CSIS in Washington, D.C. and a Research Fellow at the Center for Global Trends and International Organizations of the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Federation Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Baklitskiy is a columnist for the Russian newspapers RBC and Kommersant and the website of the Carnegie Moscow Center. Baklitskiy has previously served as the "Russia and Nuclear Nonproliferation" Program Program at PIR Center. He was the Editor-in-Chief of monthly e-bulletin “Yaderny Kontrol” (“Nuclear Control”). He took part in the sessions of the Nonproliferation Treaty Preparatory Committee in 2013-2014 and the Review Conference in 2015. Baklitskiy holds a specialist degree in regional studies from the Ural Federal University. His research interests include international security, arms control, nuclear nonproliferation, U.S.-Russian relations, and the Middle East.