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Alexei Arbatov
Alexei Arbatov, 2013 Alexei Arbatov, 2013
Born	Alexei Georgievich Arbatov Алексей Георгиевич Арбатов January 17, 1951 Russia
Nationality	Russian
Education	BA, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) PhD, Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO)
Occupation(s)	Political scientist Politician Author
Political party	Yabloko (liberal)
Spouse	Nadezhda Arbatov

Dr. Alexei Georgievich Arbatov, PhD (Russian: Алексей Георгиевич Арбатов, born January 17, 1951) is the Head of the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO). He is a Russian political scientist, academic, author, and former politician.

Born in Russia, Arbatov is a graduate of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) and the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO). He is one of Russia's foremost experts in the fields of international relations, foreign and military policy, international security, and arms control and disarmament.

Personal life and education

Arbatov was born in Russia on January 17, 1951. He is the son of Georgiy Arkadevich Arbatov (Russian: Арбатов, Георгий Аркадьевич), a highly distinguished Soviet and Russian academic and decorated veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Arbatov studied international relations at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO), his father's alma mater, and graduated in 1973.

After graduating from MGIMO, Arbatov began graduate studies at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow. He defended his graduate dissertation in 1976 and earned a Candidate of Sciences, or "Kandidat," degree. Arbatov then pursued post-doctoral studies, also at IMEMO, and earned a Doctor of Sciences degree in 1982 after successful defense of his second dissertation.

Arbatov speaks Russian and English. He is married to political scientist Nadezhda Arbatova. The couple has one daughter together, Ekaterina, who is also a graduate of MGIMO.

Academic and scientific career

Arbatov has spent the majority of his academic and scientific career at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations (IMEMO) in Moscow, where he now heads the Center for International Security. In 2011, he was elected as a full member to the prestigious Russian Academy of Sciences, the parent organization that includes IMEMO.

Arbatov is also a scholar in residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center, the top-rated think tank in Russia and Moscow-based regional affiliate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He chairs Carnegie Moscow Center's Nonproliferation Program, regularly writes for the Endowment's publications and blogs, and moderates and contributes to the Endowment's seminars and conferences.

Most of Arbatov's academic and scientific work has spanned strategic, political, and military-economic aspects of international security, foreign policy and defense, and arms limitation and reduction. Since joining IMEMO in 1976, Arbatov has served as researcher, senior researcher, leading specialist, sector head, and department head. He is a member of the IMEMO Scientific Council, the Institute of USA and Canada Studies, and the Institute of Europe. Arbatov founded IMEMO's "Disarmament and Security Yearbook" to examine complex issues related to the strengthening of international stability while preserving the national interests of Russia. He remains the managing editor and a contributor to the journal.

Arbatov has participated in many joint research projects with foreign experts on issues of strategic offensive and defensive weapons and compliance with international treaties on arms control. Some of these projects were in conjunction with the Henry L. Stimson Center, Harvard University, the RAND Corporation, the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), EastWest Institute, and others.

Arbatov is a member of numerous advisory boards, including the Governing Board of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, the board of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, the advisory board of the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), the International Advisory Board of the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), and is the vice president of the International Luxembourg Forum on Preventing Nuclear Catastrophe.

Arbatov is also a member of the EastWest Institute, the International Commission on Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, the Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission, the Research Council of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Russian Council for Foreign and Defense Policy, and the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.

Political career

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State Duma members from the "Yabloko" Party in 2003. From left to right: Staff Member of the Duma Administration Valeriy Borshev, Deputy Sergei Mitrokhin, Deputy Grigory Yavlinsky, Duma Deputy Galina Khovanskaya, Deputy Sergei Ivanenko, and Deputy Alexei Arbatov

Formerly, he was a member of the State Duma, vice chairman of the Russian United Democratic Party (Yabloko), and deputy chairman of the Duma Defense Committee.

Arbatov has played a leading role in the politics of post-Soviet Russia, as a member of the Soviet delegation at START-1 negotiations, a member of the Russian Parliament (Duma) from 1994 to 2003 and as vice chairman of the liberal YABLOKO Party from 2001 to 2008 and a member of the YABLOKO Political Committee from 2008 to the present. While in Parliament, he was deputy chairman of the Duma Defense Committee.

1993-1995 - Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the first convocation.

In 1995 elected to the State Duma of the second convocation from the federal electoral district Yabloko (No 7 in the list). Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, member of the Defence Committee of the State Duma. Chairman of the Subcommittee for International Security and Arms Limitations.

On December 19, 1999 elected Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the third convocation on the federal list. Deputy Chairman of the Defence Committee of the State Duma. Heads Commission for Defence, Security and Ratification of International Treaties.

Member of the Council of the Yabloko faction.

The initiator of the Federal Law "On financing the state defense order for the strategic nuclear forces of the Russian Federation." The law came into force. Author of federal laws "On the status of participants in armed conflicts and combatants," "On Amendments and Additions to the Federal Law" On the Russian Federation budget classification. '"

Since 1993 actively involved in the "Apple". Currently, member of the Political Committee of the Russian United Democratic Party "Yabloko".

Publications

Arbatov is author of several books and numerous articles and papers on issues of global security, strategic stability, disarmament, Russian military reform, and various current domestic and foreign political issues.

Executive editor and author of many chapters in collective monographs, SIPRI Yearbook "Armaments, Disarmament and International Security" (in Russian) with a special application IMEMO (Issues 1998 - 2002 ), and others. Author of publications on issues of national security, foreign and defense policy.

Books

• Arbatov, P. Romachkin 'APPLE: defense and security of Russia, 2004
• A. Arbatov, V. Dvorkin, V. Evseev, 'Beyond nuclear deterrence: transforming the US-Russian equation', 2006
• Arbatov, 'Equation security', 2010
• A. Arbatov, V. Dvorkin, 'Outer Space: Weapons, Diplomacy, and Security', in 2010.

Monographs

• Security in the nuclear age and the policy of Washington (1980);
• Military-strategic parity and the policy of the USA (1984);
• Deadly boundaries. The Soviet view of nuclear strategy, and arms negotiations (1988, in English);
• Defensive sufficiency and security (1990);
• Military Reform in Russia: Dilemmas, Obstacles and Prospects (1997, in English. Lang.)
• Russian national idea and Foreign Policy (1998);
• Security: Russian option (1999).

External links

• Dmitri Trenin on Twitter
• Dmitri Trenin on Facebook
• Dmitri Trenin in the BBC
• Dmitri Trenin in CNN
• Dmitri Trenin in The Economist
• Dmitri Trenin in The Financial Times
• Dmitri Trenin in The Guardian
• Dmitri Trenin in National Public Radio
• Dmitri Trenin in The New York Times
• Dmitri Trenin in Russia Today
• Carnegie Moscow Center