North Korea's Nuclear Program and U.S. National Security
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Date
2004-05-24
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Ohio State University. Mershon Center for International Security Studies
Abstract
Robert L. Gallucci is Dean of Georgetown University's Edmund
A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. He has twenty-one years of
government service, serving since August 1994 with the
Department of State as Ambassador at Large. In March 1998, the
Department of State announced his appointment as Special
Envoy to deal with the threat posed by the proliferation of
ballistic missiles and weapons of mass destruction.
Dr. Gallucci began his foreign affairs career at the Arms Control
and Disarmament Agency in 1974. In 1978, he became a division
chief in the Department of State's Bureau of Intelligence and
Research. From 1979 to 1981, he was a member of the
Secretary's Policy Planning Staff. He then served as an office
director in both the Bureau of Near Eastern and South Asian
Affairs (1982-83) and in the Bureau of Political-Military Affairs
(1983-84). In 1984, he left Washington to serve as the Deputy
Director General of the Multinational Force and Observers, the
Sinai peacekeeping force headquartered in Rome, Italy.
Returning in 1988, he joined the faculty of the National War
College where he taught until 1991. In April of that year he
moved to United Nations Headquarters in New York to take up an
appointment as the Deputy Executive Chairman of the UN Special
Commission (UNSCOM) overseeing the disarmament of Iraq. He
returned to Washington in February 1992 to be the Senior
Coordinator responsible for nonproliferation and nuclear safety
initiatives in the former Soviet Union in the Office of the Deputy
Secretary. In July 1992, Dr. Gallucci was confirmed as the
Assistant Secretary of State for Political-Military Affairs.
Dr. Gallucci earned a bachelor's degree from the State University
of New York at Stony Brook, followed by a master's and
doctorate in Politics from Brandeis University. Before joining the
State Department, he taught at Swarthmore College, Johns
Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and
Georgetown University. He has received fellowships from the
Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for
Strategic Studies, Harvard University, and the Brookings
Institution.
He has authored a number of publications on political-military
issues, including Neither Peace Nor Honor: The Politics of
American Military Policy in Vietnam (Johns Hopkins University
Press 1975). He received the Department of the Army's
Outstanding Civilian Service Award in 1991, and the Pi Sigma
Alpha Award from the National Capital Area Political Science
Association in 2000.
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Keywords
North Korea, nuclear, security