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Professor Wade Huntley
Director, Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Research
“Nuclear Disarmament: Is It Closer Than We Think?”
There has been considerable discussion on the world stage concerning international nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation. This continues to be of paramount importance in view of current world events, not the least of which is the tension between India and Pakistan following the Mumbai attacks. Prof Huntley, an expert in disarmament and non-proliferation, will address the issue by asking the question “Is It Closer Than We Think?”
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Date: Thursday, Jan 22, 2009
Time: 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, luncheon
Location: Law Courts Inn , 800 Smithe St., Vancouver, BC
$24 (CIIA members, non-member students)
$32 (non-members)
$18 (student members)
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Wade L. Huntley, Ph.D.
Wade Huntley is Director of the Simons Centre for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Research, in the Liu Institute for Global Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
Previously he was Associate Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute in Hiroshima, Japan, and Director of the Global Peace and Security Program at the Nautilus Institute in Berkeley, California. He received his doctorate in political science from the University of California at Berkeley in 1993 and has taught at several universities. His areas of specialization include nuclear weapons proliferation, global security studies, US foreign and military policies, East and South Asian regional security, and international relations theory.
Recent major publications include “Small State Perspectives on the Future of Space Governance,” Astropolitics 5:3 (Fall 2007); “U.S. Policy toward North Korea in Strategic Context: Tempting Goliath’s Fate,” Asian Survey 47:3 (May/June 2007); “Rebels without a Cause? North Korea, Iran and the Future of the NPT,” International Affairs 82:3 (July 2006); “Threats All The Way Down: U.S. Nuclear Initiatives in a Unipolar World,” Review of International Studies 32:1 (January 2006); and four co-edited volumes: Iran in the World: The Nuclear Crisis in Context (Simons Centre, 2008); Canadian Policy on Nuclear Cooperation with India: Confronting New Dilemmas (Simons Centre, 2007); Nuclear Cooperation with India: New Challenges, New Opportunities (Simons Centre, 2006) and Nuclear Disarmament in the 21st Century (Hiroshima Peace Institute, 2004).