Mailing address
One Brattle Square 510
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox 134
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Philipp C. Bleek
Research Fellow, Project on Managing the Atom/International Security Program
Contact:
Telephone: 617-384-8064
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: philipp_bleek@hks.harvard.edu
Experience
Philipp C. Bleek is a Ph.D. candidate in international relations in the Government Department at Georgetown, where he recently taught an advanced undergraduate seminar on nuclear weapons policy and politics. He has also been an instructor in the Department of Defense Senior Leader Development Program for rising mid-career civilians.
Bleek's dissertation focuses on whether and under what conditions states pursue and acquire nuclear weapons in response to proliferation by security rivals. He has briefed preliminary findings at the U.S. Naval Academy, U.K. Atomic Weapons Establishment, German Bundestag, and to think-tank and academic audiences in Washington, Berlin, and Paris, among others.
Bleek served on President Obama's nonproliferation policy advisory team during the 2008 campaign. He has been a Visiting Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Center for a New American Security, where he worked with former Secretary of the Navy Richard Danzig on bioterrorism policy. He has also been a Visiting Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute and a Visiting Scholar at the Freie Universität, both in Berlin.
Bleek is a Fellow of the Truman National Security Project and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
