The University was one of 37 grant winners in this year's MacArthur Foundation Program on Global Security and Sustainability annual research competition.
The $75,000 grant will fund work by Pavel Podvig, a visiting researcher in the University's Program in Science and Global Security. According to Podvig, "The grant will fund a research project on the attitudes of the Soviet and Russian military and political leadership toward missile defense."
Podvig, a leading expert on missile defense from the Center For Arms Control Studies at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, said in an e-mail that he plans to use the grant "to look at what factors determined the Soviet policy during the late 1960s, when the ABM Treaty was signed, then to study the Soviet side of the Star Wars debate in the 1980s, and . . . to look at the current missile defense debate.
"I hope that my research will shed some light on the inner workings of the Soviet and Russian military and military-industrial complex," he added.
Podvig, who has been a visiting researcher at the University since September 2000, is currently working on "an analysis of [the] Russian early warning network . . . primarily connected to analysis of technical questions related to arms control and disarmament policy."
Co-director of the Program on Science and Global Security Frank von Hippel explained the relevance of Podvig's work on campus.
"[Podvig's] presence in Princeton will therefore allow us to contribute in a major way to the U.S. policy debate over the desirability and feasibility of a national missile defense and on the impact of such a deployment on the likelihood of an accidental launch of Russia's nuclear missiles," he said in an e-mail.
The MacArthur Foundation-sponsored competition was aimed at illuminating the dynamics of international security, sustainability and cooperation. This specific grant is focused on the effects of technological advancement on "the tasks of ensuring global security and ecologically sustainable development," according to the foundation's website.
"The MacArthur Foundation is one of the nation's larger foundations and a major supporter of independent research on international security. Currently they are quite interested in supporting technically based policy analysis in this area," von Hippel explain-ed.
"We also hope that the foundation will award a major two-year grant to our research Pro-gram on Science and Global Security at the December meeting of its Board of Directors," he added.
The foundation — a private, independent grant-making institution — awards more than $180 million annually.
"The work that the MacArthur Foundation does in this area is extremely im-portant," Podvig said.
..."MacArthur Foundation is a very well-known supporter of work in arms control, disarmament and security in general. The research and writing program does not necessarily concentrate on security issues, but in the past, there were quite a few grants awarded for research in this area."
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