Maxim Starchak
Fellow
YGLN on Euro-Atlantic Security
Center for Support of Intl Initiatives (Poland)
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Maxim Starchak is an independent expert on nuclear policy, strategic weapons and defense and nuclear industry. Fellow at the Centre for International and Defence Policy of the Queen鈥檚 University, and a Russia Correspondent for the European Security & Defence magazine.
He is a contributor to the Carnegie Russia Eurasia, Center for European Policy Analysis, and Russia.Post, an expert platform of The Russia Program at the George Washington University. Author of reports and articles for the Atlantic Council, Marshall Center, RUSI, Jamestown Foundation, the Foreign Policy Research Institute and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on Russian nuclear forces. Previously, he has worked for Russian think tanks PIR Center, Institute for U.S. and Canadian Studies, Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy, and others. In 2017, he was a Visiting Fellow at the Polish Institute of Political Studies in Warsaw.
Affiliate Expert of the CITIC Foundation for Reform and Development Studies (China), Expert of the Center for Support of International Initiatives (Poland), Wikistrat Analyst (USA), Expert of the Testa Investment Consulting (Singapore), and a Member of World Institute for Nuclear Security. At various times, he was the editor of Russian defense magazines: Defense-Industrial Potential, and a New Defense Order. In 2006-2011, Head of the Research Group on International Security and Conflicts at Russian Political Science Association. In 2008-2010, a Council Member of the Siberian Centre for Security and Nuclear Nonproliferation. In 2012-2013, he was the project lead on the uranium industry for the Eurasian Development Bank. In 2013-2014, he was coauthor and editor of PIR Center White Paper 鈥淭owards nuclear disarmament: NTP article VI and Implementation of the 2010 Review Conference Decisions.鈥 In 2014-2015, he served as Executive Editor of the Conference Proceedings of III & IV Moscow Conference on International Security of the Ministry of Defence of Russian Federation. In 2014-2015, Working group member from Russia on the preparation of the BRICS Think Tank Council Reports (section "international peace and security"). In 2016-2017, Deputy Executive Editor of the Eurasian Security Studies journal (Japan). In 2018-2019, Editor of the website of Russian Federal Targeted Programme for Ensuring Nuclear and Radiation Safety until 2020 and up to 2030. In 2010-2019, he was a permanent member of the Expert Council of the annual all-Russian essay competition of the NATO Information Office in Moscow.
His commentary has appeared in a number of publications such as the BBC, The Telegraph, AFP, le Monde, Reuters, The Washington Post, Business Insider, Voice of America, Deutsche Welle, Al-Jazeera, as well as other media outlets in Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Denmark, Portugal, Spain, Italy and Canada.
Research Interests
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Russian Nuclear Policy
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Russian Defence and Nuclear Industry
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U.S., China, and Russia's strategic weapons and arms control
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