Martin B. Malin is the Executive Director of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. His research focuses on arms control and nonproliferation in the Middle East, U.S. nonproliferation and counter-proliferation strategies, and the security consequences of the growth and spread of nuclear energy. Previously, he served as director of the Program on Science and Global Security at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He holds a B.A. in Middle East Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz, a Masters of International of Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (where he served as editor-in-chief of the Journal of International Affairs), and has a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
Martin Malin
Executive Director of the Project on Managing the Atom at Harvard's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
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On the road to nowhere? New proposals on the Middle East WMD-free zone may backfire
Harvard’s Martin Malin outlines the successes and failures of one of the NPT’s ongoing dramas, the efforts to establish a WMD Free-Zone in the Middle East. Malin argues that abandoning these efforts would be a gift to the region’s nuclear hardliners.