Petr Topychkanov

Petr Topychkanov is a Russian researcher, professor, and current fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center's Nonproliferation Program.

Petr Topychkanov served in the Russian Armed Forces from 2003 to 2004.^[1] He received a Bachelor of Arts in South Asian Studies from the Institute of Practical Oriental Studies in 2003. He then attended Lomonosov Moscow State University, receiving a Master of Arts in South Asian Studies in 2006 and a Ph.D in 2009.^[2]

In 2009, he worked as a senior researcher at the Center for International Security at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 2014, he joined the Center's Information Security Problems Group and became an expert at the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC). He is also a participant of the Program on Strategic Stability Evaluation at the Georgia Institute of Technology and an associate of the South and Central Asia Project at the York Centre for Asian Research in Toronto, Canada. He has worked at the Carnegie Moscow Center since 2006.^[3]

Publications

• “Nuclear Weapons and Strategic Security in South Asia” (2011)
• “India’s Prospects in the Area of Ballistic Missile Defense: A Regional Security Perspective” (2012)
• “Russia and Pakistan: Shared Challenges and Common Opportunities” with Vladimir Moskalenko (2014)

Co-author of:

• “Nuclear Proliferation: New Technologies, Weapons, Treaties” (2009)
• “Outer Space: Weapons, Diplomacy, and Security” (2010)
• “World of Khaki: Armed Forces in the System of State Power” (2011)
• “Nuclear Reset: Arms Reduction and Nonproliferation” (2012)
• “Prospects of Engaging India and Pakistan in Nuclear Arms Limitations” (2012)
• “Missile Defense: Confrontation and Cooperation” (2013)
• “Alarming Contours of the Future: Russia and the World in 2020” (2015)
• “The New Military-Industrial Powers” (2016),

References