Participant Biographies

Etel Solingen

Etel Solingen

Chancellor`s Professor, UC Irvine
Nuclear Weapons States v. Non-Nuclear Weapons States (Moderator)

Ms. Solingen is chancellor’s professor at the University of California, Irvine and president-elect of the International Studies Association. Her most recent book, Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East was awarded the APSA’s Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award and the Robert Jervis and Paul Schroeder Award. She has received a MacArthur Foundation Research and Writing Award, and a Social Science Research Council-MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, among others. She is president of the APSA’s International History and Politics Section and was chair of the Steering Committee of the University of California’s system-wide Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation.