George Perkovich
George Perkovich is vice president for studies, Global Security and Economic Development, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In this capacity, he oversees the entire research program, across all subject areas.
His personal research has focused on nuclear strategy and nonproliferation, with a focus on South Asia. He is the author of India's Nuclear Bomb, which Foreign Affairs called "an extraordinary and perhaps definitive account of 50 years of Indian nuclear policymaking," and The Washington Times has called an "important ... encyclopedic ... antidote to many of the illusions of our age." The book received the Herbert Feis Award from the American Historical Association, for outstanding work by an independent scholar, and the A. K. Coomaraswamy Prize from the Association for Asian Studies, as an outstanding book on South Asia.
Perkovich recently coauthored a major Carnegie report, Universal Compliance: A Strategy for Nuclear Security, a new blueprint for rethinking the international nuclear nonproliferation regime. The report offers a fresh approach to deal with states and terrorists, nuclear weapons, and missile materials to ensure global safety and security.
Perkovich is also developing a project on fairness in the international system, drawing on his interests in trade and globalization. His article, "Giving Justice Its Due," published in the July/August 2005 issue of Foreign Affairs, establishes the central theme of this project.
From 1990 through 2001, Perkovich was director of the Secure World Program at the W. Alton Jones Foundation, a $400 million philanthropic institution located in Charlottesville, Virginia. At the time of the foundation's division in 2001, he also served as deputy director for programs.
Perkovich served as a speechwriter and foreign policy advisor to Senator Joe Biden from 1989 to 1990.
Perkovich is an expert in US foreign policy, nonproliferation, security, global governance, nongovernmental actors, India, Iran, and Pakistan. He holds a B.A. from the University of California at Santa Cruz; an M.A. from Harvard University; and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia.