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Robert Litwak

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Robert S. Litwak is Senior Vice President of the Wilson Center. He is author of Preventing North Korea's Nuclear Breakout and Iran's Nuclear Chess: After the Deal.

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Foreign Policy Essay

Nuclear Diplomacy with North Korea and Iran: From Transformational to Transactional

Robert Litwak   Sun, Jan 27, 2019, 10:00 AM

Editor’s Note: Iran and North Korea have posed thorny problems for multiple U.S. administrations. The Trump administration, however, is trying a new tack, hoping to transform the regimes and eschewing intermediate steps. Robert Litwak of the Wilson Center calls for a more transactional approach, working incrementally to decrease the danger these rogue regimes pose rather than trying, and probably failing, to fundamentally transform them.

Daniel Byman

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Foreign Policy Essay

Preventing a Nuclear 9/11: State-Based Strategies to Deter Non-State Threats

Robert Litwak   Sun, Jul 30, 2017, 10:00 AM

Editor’s Note: Non-proliferation has been an imperfect but real policy success in the modern era. However, the emergence of the North Korean program and continued problems with other nuclear weapons states raise the risk of additional proliferation, including to non-state actors. Robert Litwak of the Wilson Center breaks down how we should think about non-proliferation, explaining the different categories of states and policy responses and arguing that an Iran-like deal is a powerful approach that deserves emulation in several other cases.

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