Christoph Hartmut Bluth is a professor of international relations and security at the

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Family and education

Christoph Bluth was born in

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and grew up in

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. He is the son of Winfried Bluth who was an

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Christian and a publishing consultant. He studied at

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, where he completed a BA in mathematics (1980) and an MPhil in ecumenical theology (1984). His master's thesis, ''Just War Theory and the Falklands/Malvinas Conflict'', was supervised by

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; its conclusions were published in the ''

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''. At

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, he conducted research for his PhD thesis on "Soviet Strategic Arms Policy under Khrushchev" under the supervision of

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at the Department of War Studies.

Career

At the age of 18, Bluth published his first book, ''Der Ursprung des Lebens'' ("The origin of life"), a creationist critique of evolutionary theory. After he completed his undergraduate studies he worked as the representative from Northern Ireland for the Student Christian Movement. Bluth's work has focussed on the role of nuclear weapons and the risks of nuclear proliferation in global security. His early work studied the Soviet Union. Subsequently, he worked on US-Russian cooperation on nuclear security and safety in the context of the Nunn-Lugar programme on co-operative denuclearization. Bluth's recent work on nuclear proliferation has been controversial for his view that nuclear proliferation is rare and that the spread of nuclear weapons has been less critical to international security than is often claimed. He states that his work in peace studies has been dedicated to education and research in international security studies, with the purpose of providing insights that contribute to the understanding of the risks of nuclear war and paths towards removing nuclear weapons from international relations in the future.

Publications

* * * * * Crisis on the Korean Peninsula, Dulles Va, Potomac Books 2011 * US Foreign Policy in the Caucasus and Central Asia: Politics, Energy and Security (I.B. Tauris 2014) * Security, Culture and Human Rights in South Asia and the Middle East, Global Research Publications 2019

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bluth, Christoph Hartmut Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Academics of the University of Bradford Academics of the University of Leeds Academics of the University of Reading Alumni of Trinity College Dublin Alumni of King's College London Fellows of the Royal Historical Society