Chen Zak Kane

Director, Middle East Nonproliferation Program

[email protected]
Washington DC
202.601.2330

Activities

Dr. Chen Zak Kane focuses on projects related to reducing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism, with a particular focus on the Middle East. In addition, she examines means to strengthen the International Atomic Energy Agency’s safeguards system and the projected expansion of nuclear energy in the Middle East. Dr. Kane also serves as a Project Lead of the Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone Project at the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research. Dr Kane is the founder of the Middle East Next Generation Arms Control Network (http://www.menacs.org/). She has held research positions at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, as well as the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Dr Kane was an adviser to both the Jebsen Center for Counter-Terrorism at Tufts University, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, as well as an adjunct professor with the National Defense University. Prior to joining CNS, she worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She holds a PhD and MALD from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and MA and BA from Tel Aviv University.

Areas of Research

• Disarmament and Verification
• Export Controls
• International Treaties & Regimes
• Iran
• Iraq
• Middle East
• Nuclear energy in the Middle East
• Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones
• Proliferation of WMD in the ME
• WMD Free Zone in the Middle East

Education

• B.A. in sociology, anthropology, and political science from Tel Aviv University
• M.A. in security studies from Tel Aviv University
• M.A.L.D. and a Ph.D. from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy

CNS Work

• Nuclear Weapons, Fissile Material, and Export Controls in the Former Soviet Union
  Jon Brook Wolfsthal Cristina Chuen Emily Ewell Daughtry June 18, 2001 Status Report On June 18, 2001 the sixth edition of the joint Monterey Institute-Carnegie Endowment Nuclear Status Report was released at the Carnegie Endowment’s Nonproliferation Conference in Washington, DC. This report is the most complete single source of information on Russia’s nuclear arsenal and stockpile, the status of fissile material at other ...

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Bibliography

• Nuclear Decision-Making in Iran: A Rare Glimpse, Middle East Brief 5, May 2006.
• “The Middle East’s Interrupted Atomic Dreams,” Foreign Policy, Dec. 29, 2009.
• Nonproliferation Issues in U.S.-ROK Nuclear Cooperation, in U.S.-ROK Workshop on Nuclear Energy and Nonproliferation, the Henry L. Stimson Center and The Asia Foundation Center for U.S.-Korea Policy, January 20, 2010.
• Report of the Technical Advisory Group on Nuclear Energy in the Middle East, November 16, 2010.
• “Going Global: Issues Facing South Korea as an Emerging Nuclear Exporter,” Joint U.S.-Korea Academic Studies.
• “Time for Leadership: South Korea and Nuclear Nonproliferation,” Arms Control Today, March 2011.
• “From Donor to Partner: The Evolution of U.S. Cooperative Threat Reduction into Global Security Engagement” NTI Issue Brief, May 12, 2011.
• Scientific Engagement In The Middle East: Nonproliferation, Responsible Bioscience, and the Environment, Presentation at Global Green USA event, July 2011.
• “The role of civil society in promoting a WMDFZ in the Middle East” Disarmament Forum UNIDIR, issue 2, 2011.