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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) and a scholar in residence at the Carnegie Moscow Center. 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 has spent nearly 40 years in the academic and scientific communities, and served for over a decade in Russia's parliament. 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, the Russian front of World War II. 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 is married to Nadezhda Arbatova, a fellow political scientist and MGIMO alumna. The couple has one daughter together, Ekaterina, who is also a graduate of MGIMO.

Academic and scientific career

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Alexei Arbatov (left) at the Carnegie Moscow Center in 2013

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 has been 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

Arbatov played a leading role in the politics of post-Soviet Russia. He was a member of the Soviet delegation to START I negotiations, a bi-lateral treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms that was signed in 1991 between the United States and the Soviet Union. Following the break-up of the Soviet Union, he served for over a decade in Russia's Federal Assembly, or parliament.

From 1994 to 2003, he was a Deputy in the Russian State Duma, the lower house of the Federal Assembly, and served in on various committees. Arbatov's three terms in office spanned the first three iterations of the newly formed State Duma:

• 1993-1995 - State Duma Deputy
• 1995-1995 - State Duma Deputy, member of the Defense Committee, Chairman of the Subcommittee for International Security and Arms Limitations
• 1999-2003 - State Duma Deputy, Deputy Chairman of the Defense Committee, Head of the Commission for Defense, Security and Ratification of International Treaties

Arbatov initiated and/or drafted several Russian laws during his tenure in the State Duma:

• "On Civil Control and Management over Military Organization and Activity in the Russian Federation"
• "On the Financing of the Strategic Nuclear Arms Forces of the Russian Federation for the Period up to 2001"
• "On Amendments and Additions to the Federal Law, "On the Federal Budget for 1999""
• "On the Status of Participants in Armed Conflicts and Combatants"
• "On Civil Control and Management over Military Organization and Activity in the Russian Federation"

Arbatov also initiated several inquiries as a State Duma Deputy, including:

• Inquiry on non-implementation of the law, "On Social Protection of Citizens Exposed to Radiation Due to the Chernobyl Disaster" and Government Resolution "On the Procedure for Providing Compensation and Concessions to Individuals Subjected to Radiation"
• Inquiry regarding the failure of the government to determine a mechanism for taking the border registration fee, envisaged by the law "On the State Border"
• Request for the urgent submission to the State Duma of the concept and development programs, reductions, and utilization of nuclear weapons and corresponding expenditures. Without these materials, it would have been impossible to prepare for ratification of START II in 1993.

Outside of his career in the State Duma, Arbatov served as vice chairman of the Russian United Democratic Party (Yabloko)--a center-left, social liberal political party--from 2001 to 2008. The Yabloko Party stands for the greater freedom and civil liberties in Russia, greater integration with the West, better relations with the United States, and membership in the European Union. Arbatov has served as a member of the Yabloko Political Committee from 2008 to the present.

Publications

Arbatov is an author and editor of many publications on issues of global security, strategic stability, disarmament, Russian military reform, and various current domestic and foreign political issues.

Books

• Outer Space: Weapons, Diplomacy, and Security (2010)
• Equation Security (2010)
• Beyond Nuclear Deterrence: Transforming the US-Russian Equation (2006)
• Defense and Security of Russia (2004)

Monographs

• Security: Russian Option (1999)
• Russian National Idea and Foreign Policy (1998)
• Military Reform in Russia: Dilemmas, Obstacles and Prospects (1997, in English)
• Defensive Sufficiency and Security (1990)
• Deadly boundaries: The Soviet View of Nuclear Strategy, and Arms Negotiations (1988, in English)
• Military-Strategic Parity and the Policy of the USA (1984)
• Security in the Nuclear Age and the Policy of Washington (1980)

External links

• Institute of World Economy and International Relations
• Carnegie Moscow Center

References

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