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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
Location:
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
Current Research Projects
April 23, 2008
Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
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
Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
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
| Speaker: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations |
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
| Speaker: | Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan, and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations |
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| Presider: | Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations |
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
| Author: | Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair |
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Op-Ed
JoongAng Daily
See more in United States, China, North Korea, Arms Control and Disarmament
July 9, 2007
Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor interviewed by Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair
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
| Author: | Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair |
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Article
International Institute for Strategic Studies
See more in Iran, Conflict Prevention, Proliferation
May 9, 2007
| Speaker: | Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Nonproliferation, International Institute for Strategic Studies |
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| Presider: | Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations |
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
| Speaker: | Mark Fitzpatrick, Senior Fellow for Nonproliferation, International Institute for Strategic Studies and Editor, "Nuclear Black Markets: Pakistan, A.Q. Khan and the Rise of Proliferation Networks," an IISS Strategic Dossier |
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| Presider: | Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations |
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
| Author: | Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair |
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Article
Global Asia
See more in North Korea, Proliferation
April 16, 2007
Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
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
April 11, 2007
Transcript
Note: Remarks as prepared for delivery
Paper for presentation at the Japanese Institute for International Affairs on April 11, 2007.
March 23, 2007
| Speaker: | Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Transcript
Note: Remarks as prepared for delivery
Paper for presentation at the International Institute for Strategic Studies on March 21, 2007.
February 13, 2007
Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
CFR's Gary Samore says the accord reached at the Six-Party Talks in Beijing was "a wise compromise" for the Bush administration.
See more in North Korea, Arms Control and Disarmament
February 6, 2007
Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
CFR Director of Studies Gary S. Samore says the U.S. negotiator at the Six-Party Talks on North Korea appears to be acting with new flexibility.
See more in North Korea, Iran, Proliferation
December 15, 2006
| Speaker: | Gary Samore, Council on Foreign Relations Vice President, Former Senior Director for Nonproliferation and Export Controls at the National Security Council |
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Transcript
CFR Director of Studies Gary Samore, former senior director for nonproliferation and export controls at the National Security Council, discusses prospects for Six-Party Talks.
See more in North Korea, Proliferation, U.S. Strategy and Politics
December 15, 2006
| Speaker: | Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair, Council on Foreign Relations |
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Audio
Listen to Council Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair Gary Samore brief the press on North Korea ahead of the resumption of Six-Party Talks on the nation's nuclear program.
See more in North Korea, Proliferation
November 1, 2006
Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Gary Samore, an expert on North Korean nuclear policy, says he is “very skeptical” that the Bush administration can make a deal to end North Korea’s nuclear program when the Six-Party Talks resume. “The North Koreans are determined to retain their nuclear weapons and the United States supported by Japan is demanding complete, irreversible, verifiable disarmament,” says Samore, who participated in negotiations with North Korea in the Clinton administration.
See more in North Korea, Proliferation
October 17, 2006
Gary Samore, Vice President, Director of Studies, and Maurice R. Greenberg Chair interviewed by Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor
Interview
Gary Samore, an expert on nuclear proliferation who took part in negotiations with North Korea in the 1990s for the Clinton administration, says the decision by North Korea to test a nuclear device was “a purely political act.”
See more in North Korea, Proliferation
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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
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Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for
Geoeconomic Studies, Deputy Director of Studies, and Paul A. Volcker Senior
Fellow for International Economics
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