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Ariel E. Levite

Ariel (Eli) Levite is a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Technology and International Affairs Program. Prior to joining Carnegie in 2008, Levite served for 25 years in high-ranking national security positions in the Israel government. He holds a Ph.D in government from Cornell University. He has published extensively on diverse international security issues.


Articles by Ariel E. Levite

US President Bill Clinton, Russian President Boris, Yeltsin, and Ukrainian President Leonid Kravchuk sign the Trilateral Agreement on transferring nuclear weapons from Ukraine to Russia and associated matters in Moscow, January 1994. Photo credit: Joseph P. Harahan, historian of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, and the Clinton Presidential Library.

Why security assurances are losing their clout as a nuclear nonproliferation instrument

By Ariel E. Levite | Nuclear Weapons