The virtual seminar will be held from 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. (E.T.)
Rose Gottemoeller will discuss her new book Negotiating the New START Treaty, which recounts the 2009-10 negotiations with Russia in Geneva and the interactions with the U.S. Senate to achieve advice and consent to ratification of the treaty. She will emphasize lessons learned from the New START process for the future of nuclear arms negotiations. She also will address the near-term nuclear agenda that President Biden and President Putin are likely to discuss in their upcoming summit meeting in Europe, and the longer-term strategic stability issues that will engage not only the US and Russia, but other nuclear powers as well, especially China. These include the offense-defense relationship, the general deployment of extensive space-based capabilities, and the proliferation of ground-launched intermediate-range missiles in Eurasia.
About the speaker: Rose Gottemoeller is the Frank E. and Arthur W. Payne Distinguished Lecturer at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies and its Center for International Security and Cooperation. Earlier, she served as Deputy Secretary General of NATO and as the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security at the State Department. In 2009-2010, she was the chief U.S. negotiator of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) with Russia. Her experience is described in a memoir, Negotiating the New START Treaty.