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Updated: Jul 14, 2009

Dr. Fred Wehling

Fred Wehling is Director of Educational Programs at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and Associate Professor in the Graduate School of International Policy and Management at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

Wehling received his A.B. in International Relations, Political Science, and Russian from the University of Southern California in 1985, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1987, a Ph.D. in Political Science, from UCLA in 1992, and a Masters of Instructional Science and Technology from California State University Monterey Bay in 2006.

Before coming to the Monterey Institute in 1998, Wehling was a consultant at RAND, Coordinator of Policy Research for the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), and a researcher at the Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) at Sandia National Laboratories.

In addition to teaching courses on policy analysis, nuclear nonproliferation, terrorism, and other topics, Wehling develops online courses and instructional materials and conducts research on terrorism with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear materials (CBRN).

He is co-author of The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (2005) and World Politics in a New Era, 3rd ed. (2003) and author of various other books, articles, and reports.