About Michael Landweber

Michael is the Associate Director of the Partnership for a Secure America. Prior to joining PSA, he spent eight years at the State Department working on nonproliferation issues, including export controls, India-Pakistan sanctions, MANPADS, UNSCR 1540 and WMD terrorism. Michael was also a member of the delegation to G-8 and U.S.-EU nonproliferation talks.

After entering the government as a Public Management Fellowship, Michael tracked counternarcotics spending at the Office of National Drug Control Policy and focused on Asia during rotations at State in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research and with the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff. He has also worked for The Japan Times in Tokyo and the Associated Press in Washington, DC. Michael holds a joint Masters in Public Policy and Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Michigan and an A.B. in East Asian Studies from Princeton University.

Posts by Michael Landweber:

• Memo to the UN: A Little Disarmament Diplomacy, Please, 10 Nov 2008
• Pigeons and Paranoia, 22 Oct 2008
• DPRK-ja-vu, all over again, 03 Oct 2008
• Welcome to Embassy Tehran (more or less), 19 Sep 2008
• Cuba Libre III: WAITING FOR GO … RBACHEV, 01 Sep 2008
• Cuba Libre: What If Castro Didn’t Matter?, 29 Aug 2008