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Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
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Phone: +1-212-434-9627
E-mail: gsamore@cfr.org
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New York, NY
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Former senior director for nonproliferation and export controls at the National Security Council and editor of three International Institute for Strategic Studies "dossiers" on weapons programs in Iraq, North Korea, and Iran.
Expertise:Nuclear proliferation and arms control, especially in the Middle East and Asia
Experience:Vice President for Global Security and Sustainability, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation (2005-2006); Director of Studies and Senior Fellow for Non-Proliferation, International Institute for Strategic Studies (2001-2005); Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls, National Security Council (1996-2001); Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls, National Security Council (1995-96); Deputy to Ambassador-at-Large Robert Gallucci, Department of State (1994-95); Acting Director/Deputy Director, Office of Regional Nonproliferation, Bureau of Political-Military Affairs, Department of State (1993-94); Special Assistant to the Ambassador-at-Large for Non-Proliferation and Nuclear Energy Policy, Richard T. Kennedy, Department of State (1978-93); Research Analyst, Special Projects Division, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1984-87); consultant, Rand Corporation (1980-82); teaching fellow, Government Department, Harvard University (1979-82).
Selected Publications:Repairing the Damage: Possibilities and Limits of Transatlantic Consensus (coauthor, Adelphi Paper 389, International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2007); Iran’s Strategic Weapons Programmes: A Net Assessment (International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2005); North Korea’s Weapons Programmes: A Net Assessment (International Institute for Strategic Studies, 2004); Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Net Assessment(International Institute for Strategic Studies 2002); “The Korean Nuclear Crisis,” Survival (2003); “Ending Russian Assistance to Iran’s Nuclear Bomb,” Survival (2002); “Iraq,” Nuclear Proliferation After the Cold War (Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1994).
Speeches
Related Links:
Joint Saban Center at Brookings – Council on Foreign Relations project: Toward A New U.S.-Middle East Strategy
Current Research Projects
October 14, 2008
Interview
Gary Samore, who was active in nuclear diplomacy with North Korea in the Clinton administration, says the latest agreement between the United States and North Korea is only a "very modest step forward" because it allows the next administration to proceed further in seeking a nuclear-disarmed North Korea.
See more in North Korea, Arms Control and Disarmament, State Sponsors of Terrorism
September 8, 2008
Transcript
A symposium discussing Iran and policy options for the next administration, focusing on the nuclear dimension and Iranian foreign policy.
See more in Iran, Technology and Foreign Policy, Proliferation
September 5, 2008
Video
Watch experts discuss various U.S. policy approaches to the Iranian nuclear program.
See more in Iran, Weapons of Mass Destruction, U.S. Election 2008
September 5, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts discuss various U.S. policy approaches to the Iranian nuclear program.
See more in Iran, Weapons of Mass Destruction, U.S. Election 2008
June 27, 2008
Transcript
See more in Northeast Asia, North Korea, Technology and Foreign Policy, Missile Defense, Weapons of Mass Destruction, Weapons of Terrorism
June 26, 2008
Interview
CFR's Gary Samore says North Korea's declaration on its nuclear activities and lifting of sanctions by the United States marks "a useful initial step" but more work needs to be done to ensure disarmament.
See more in United States, North Korea, Proliferation
April 23, 2008
Transcript
See more in United States, Europe/Russia, Middle East
April 23, 2008
Audio
Listen to experts discuss the U.S. and European approaches to dealing with challenges in the broader Middle East.
This symposium was made possible by the generosity of the European Commission and the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
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April 23, 2008
Interview
Gary Samore, a senior arms-control negotiator in the Clinton administration, says the Bush administration has agreed to a compromise with North Korea on demands for it to confess the extent of its uranium-enrichment activities.
See more in North Korea, Diplomacy, Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament, Weapons of Mass Destruction
January 25, 2008
Interview
Gary Samore, a former top U.S. official on arms control policy, says Bush administration policymakers have concluded that North Korea has decided to delay any progress on nuclear disarmament until a new administration takes office in spite of pledges to the contrary.
See more in United States, North Korea, Arms Control and Disarmament
December 27, 2007
Audio
Listen to CFR Senior Fellow Daniel Markey discuss the implications of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
See more in Pakistan, Democracy and Human Rights
December 27, 2007
Transcript
CFR Senior Fellow Daniel Markey discuss the implications of the assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.
See more in Pakistan, International Peace and Security
September 19, 2007
Interview
Gary Samore, an arms control official in the Clinton National Security Council and CFR’s director of studies, says it remains a mystery whether Syria was working with North Korea to receive nuclear technology. He adds, however, that it would make sense that Syria would be interested to develop some kind of deterrent, given that its neighbor, Israel, is said to have nuclear weapons.
See more in North Korea, Syria, International Peace and Security, Weapons of Mass Destruction
August 6, 2007
Op-Ed
JoongAng Daily
See more in United States, China, North Korea, Arms Control and Disarmament
July 9, 2007
Interview
Gary Samore, a former National Security Council official, says Iran is trying to forestall another round of UN Security Council sanctions and ultimately to stave off a possible military attack against its nuclear facilities.
See more in United States, Iran, Defense/Homeland Security
Volume 13, Issue 3, April 2007
Article
International Institute for Strategic Studies
See more in Iran, Conflict Prevention, Proliferation
May 9, 2007
Audio
Listen to Mark Fitzpatrick, senior fellow for nonproliferation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies, discuss his recently published dossier, Nuclear Black Markets: Pakistan, A.Q. Khan and The Rise of Proliferation Networks.
See more in Pakistan, Proliferation
May 9, 2007
Transcript
The roundtable discussed the recent IISS dossier on nuclear black markets which gives a comprehensive assessment of the Pakistani nuclear program from which the Khan network emerged, and reviews the history of clandestine nuclear procurement activities by other states.
See more in Pakistan, Proliferation
Volume 2, Number 1, April 2007
Article
Global Asia
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April 16, 2007
Interview
Gary Samore, a North Korea expert, says he believes Pyongyang will close down its Yongbyon reactor. But he says it will be difficult to proceed further because of North Korea’s continuing desire to be rewarded with light-water nuclear reactors.
See more in North Korea, Arms Control and Disarmament
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America Between the Wars explores how the decisions and debates of the years between the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Twin Towers shaped the events, arguments, and politics of the world we live in today.
Complete list of CFR Books.
In this report, CFR Senior Fellow Michael A. Levi analyzes the potential use of deterrence in preventing terrorist groups from acquiring nuclear weapons and recommends a new approach to U.S. declaratory policy, as well as ways to improve U.S. capabilities to determine the sources of terrorist attacks.
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Complete list of Council Special Reports.
For more information on the David Rockefeller Studies Program, contact:
Gary Samore
Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
+1.212.434.9627
gsamore@cfr.org
Sebastian Mallaby
Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for
Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior
Fellow for International Economics
smallaby@cfr.org
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Deputy Director of Studies Administration
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