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Jennifer C. Bulkeley

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Kennedy School of Government
124 Mt. Auburn Street, Suite 100
Cambridge, MA, 02138

Jennifer C. Bulkeley

Research Assistant, Preventive Defense Project

Contact:
Email: jennifer_bulkeley@ksgphd.harvard.edu

 

Experience

Jennifer Bulkeley is a Public Policy PhD Candidate at Harvard University and a Research Assistant with the Preventive Defense Project.

Before coming to Harvard, Jennifer spent several years studying international relations and international security issues in a variety of locations and capacities, including work at the U.S. Mission to the IAEA in Vienna, NATO Headquarters in Brussels, the U.S. Embassy in Germany, and the State Department Nonproliferation Bureau in Washington. As a Fulbright Scholar and NSEP Boren Fellow, she also conducted research with think tanks in the United States, Europe, and China.

Today, her research interests include Chinese foreign policy and security strategy, Asian regional security structures, counterterrorism, and the global nonproliferation regime. Jennifer has published articles on China's military modernization, Chinese export controls, cross-Strait relations, America's nonproliferation policies, the Biological Weapons Convention, post-conflict reconstruction, regional cooperation against maritime piracy, and strategies for decontamination and remediation following a dirty bomb attack.

Jennifer received an MPA in International Relations from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and summa cum laude from the University of the South (Sewanee) with a B.A. in Political Science. She is an avid marathon runner and she speaks Mandarin Chinese and German.

 

 

By Date

 

2008

Department of Defense

February 7, 2008

PDP Hosts Workshop on Defense Management Challenges in the Post-Bush Era

Press Release

By Robin Olsen, Research Assistant, Preventive Defense Project and Jennifer C. Bulkeley, Research Assistant, Preventive Defense Project

On February 7, 2008, PDP Co-Directors Ashton B. Carter and William J. Perry hosted one in a series of workshops entitled “Defense Management Challenges in the Post-Bush Era.” The off-the-record workshop, held in Washington, DC, focused on what management challenges the next administration will face in the next two to five years. The management issues include balancing strategy and resources in a tightening budget climate, leveraging America’s technology and industrial bases to sustain a competitive edge, resetting civil-military relations, and extending the concept of national security management to include non-military capabilities.

 

2007

March 2007

"Decontamination and Remediation after a Dirty Bomb Attack"

Journal Article, The Nonproliferation Review, issue 1, volume 14

By Jennifer C. Bulkeley, Research Assistant, Preventive Defense Project

Article in The Nonproliferation Review

 

 

Winter 2007

America's Strategic Response to China's Military Modernization

Journal Article, Harvard Asia-Pacific Review, issue 1, volume 9

By Dr. Ashton B. Carter, Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities and Jennifer C. Bulkeley, Research Assistant, Preventive Defense Project

Dr. Ashton B. Carter and Jennifer C. Bulkeley offer recommendations for America's strategic response to China's military modernization.

 

2004

Spring 2004

Making the System Work: Chinese Export Control Reform

Journal Article, Nonproliferation Review

By Jennifer C. Bulkeley, Research Assistant, Preventive Defense Project

This paper explores how the Chinese export control system works, and assesses the successes and failures of Chinese efforts to implement its 2002 export control regulations on NBC and missile technologies.

 

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