Security and Defense Policy Analyst

Richard Weitz

2 articles 2006–2007

Richard Weitz is a senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, specializing in international security, nonproliferation, and defense policy. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2006–2007, writing on nuclear proliferation and geopolitical instability.

Things Fall Apart

January 18, 2007 · Richard Weitz, Blog

ON DECEMBER 20, Russia's main legislative body, the State Duma, reaffirmed its faith in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). The Commonwealth is the oldest multilateral institution linking all the former Soviet republics except the Baltic states. In their statement, Duma members declared:…

An OPEC With Nukes?

July 12, 2006 · Richard Weitz, Blog

THE RECENT SUMMIT of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization--a group consisting of China, Russia, and four Central Asian countries--has evoked alarm about a potent anti-American bloc emerging in the heart of Eurasia. The presence in Shanghai of fiery Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the…