Dr. Andrew J. Pierre is a Jennings Randolph Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace writing a book on national decisions to forego nuclear weapons. Earlier he was at Georgetown University and a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, dealing with issues of international security as well as Europe. He served as Director-General of the Atlantic Institute for International Affairs in Paris, Acting Director of Studies and Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, Senior Associate of the Hudson Institute and Research Associate at the Brookings Institution. As a foreign service officer, he served at the American Embassy in London and at the U.S. State Department. He has also taught at Columbia University and Johns Hopkins University, and spent half a year in Hanoi, Vietnam as a senior adviser to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A graduate of Amherst College and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris, he holds a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. His The Global Politics f Arms Sales (Princeton University Press) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.