MTA/ISP Fellow Philipp Bleek will present a seminar entitled "How Are Middle Eastern States Responding to the Possibility of a Nuclear-Armed Iran? A Report from the Ground" summarizing his recent travels, and interviews in the Middle East on Tuesday, December 14 at 9:30am in the Belfer Center library.

Widespread conventional wisdom holds that if Iran continues down the nuclear proliferation path it appears to be on, regional antagonists will do likewise. The speaker's dissertation examines the broader questions of whether states are more likely to proliferate when their rivals do so, under what conditions such "reactive proliferation" is more or less likely, and what tools policymakers in Washington and elsewhere have to forestall further proliferation.

Please join us! Coffee and tea provided. Everyone is welcome, but admittance will be on a first come–first served basis.

MTA/ISP Research Fellow Philipp Bleek will present a seminar entitled "Does Proliferation Beget Proliferation? Assessing 'Reactive Proliferation,'" on Tuesday, October 6, 2009, in the Belfer Center library at 9:30am.