Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb

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Dr. Togzhan Kassenova is a Washington, DC-based senior fellow with the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES) at the Center for Policy Research, SUNY-Albany and a nonresident fellow in the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She is an expert on nuclear politics, WMD nonproliferation, strategic trade controls, sanctions implementation, and financial crime prevention. She currently works on issues related to proliferation financing controls, exploring ways to minimize access of proliferators to the global financial system. Kassenova holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Leeds and is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS). From 2011 to 2015 Kassenova served on the UN secretary general’s Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters.

Kassenova is the author of Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb (forthcoming, Stanford University Press, 2022).

Discussants:

Michael Gordin, Rosengarten Professor of Modern and Contemporary History; Professor of History; Director, Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts

Zia Mian, Research Scientist, Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and the Program on Science and Global Security; Co-Director, Program in Science and Global Security

Moderator:

Isabelle DeSisto, Graduate Student, Politics Department

Sponsored byThe Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and the Program on Science and Global Security

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Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies

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