Robert Sutherland Litwak (born April 5, 1953) is senior vice president and director of International Security Studies at the

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in Washington D.C. He is also an adjunct professor at

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’s School of Foreign Service and a consultant to the

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Career

Litwak served on the

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staff as director for Nonproliferation in the first Clinton administration. His most recent books are ''Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Containment after the Cold War'' and ''Regime Change: U.S. Strategy through the Prism of 9/11''. Litwak has held visiting fellowships at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, the

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, the

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, and the

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. He is a member of the

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, and received a doctorate in international relations from the

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Litwak, Robert 1953 births Living people Harvard University staff Walsh School of Foreign Service faculty Alumni of the London School of Economics