Jeffrey G. Lewis

Former Director, Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative
Jeffrey Lewis
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Jeffrey Lewis was Director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation until November of 2010, when he left to direct the East Asia Nonproliferation Program at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Dr. Lewis is the author of Minimum Means of Reprisal: China’s Search for Security in the Nuclear Age (MIT Press, 2007), and is a research scholar at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy (CISSM) and a contributor to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Dr. Lewis also founded and maintains the leading blog on nuclear arms control and nonproliferation, ArmsControlWonk.com.

Before joining the New America Foundation, Dr. Lewis was Executive Director of the Managing the Atom Project at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Previously, he served as a Research Fellow at the Center for International and Security Studies at the University of Maryland School of Public Policy (CISSM), Executive Director of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs, a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and with the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy.

Dr. Lewis received his Ph.D. in Policy Studies (International Security and Economic Policy) from the University of Maryland and his B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Augustana College in Rock Island, Ill.

Publications

Policy Paper | Nov 8, 2010 | New America Foundation
Article | May 3, 2009 | Washington Times
Article | Apr 22, 2009 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Article | Dec 1, 2008 | Arms Control Today
Article | Jul 8, 2008 | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
Article | Dec 2, 2007 | Washington Post
Article | Aug 13, 2007 | Financial Times

Events

Event | Nov 9, 2010 | Washington
Event | Apr 16, 2010 | Washington
Event | Jul 8, 2009 | Washington
Event | May 28, 2009 | Washington
Event | Jan 28, 2009 | Washington
Event | Jul 24, 2008 | Washington
Event | May 20, 2008 | Washington
Event | May 7, 2008 | Washington
Event | Apr 18, 2008 | Washington
Event | Apr 9, 2008 | Washington

Press

In the News Item | Sep 30, 2010
In the News Item | Jun 18, 2010 | Asia Times
In the News Item | May 17, 2010 | The Guardian (London)
In the News Item | Apr 30, 2010 | The Washington Post
In the News Item | Apr 28, 2010 | Foreign Policy
In the News Item | Apr 12, 2010 | Reuters
In the News Item | Apr 7, 2010 | The Washington Post
In the News Item | Mar 27, 2010 | Agence France Presse