Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine (1998 - 2000), a William J. Perry fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University, and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution He is the co-author of The Opportunity: Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms.
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