Preserving the Memory of Outstanding Professionals

ROLAND TIMERBAEV: ANTHOLOGY^[1].

URL: https://pircenter.org/Anthology-of-Roland-Timerbaev 

GENNADY EVSTAFIEV: ANTHOLOGY^[2].

URL: https://pircenter.org/Anthology-of-Gennady-Evstafiev 

Anthology of Roland Timerbaev and Anthology of Gennady Evstafiev monographs will be of particular interest to everyone concerned with international relations and security issues – from the future of the nuclear nonproliferation regime to the prospects for the development of drones.

Ambassador Roland Timerbaev was one of the most honored specialists in nuclear nonproliferation and former high-ranking Soviet and Russian diplomat. All over the world he was famous as a founding father of the 1968 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT). In this book you can find publications about the origin and evolution of nuclear nonproliferation and nuclear arms control regimes, fragments of documents and diaries from the author’s personal archive, as well as pieces of his memoirs. A number of topical global security issues is raised in this work, including the most important ones – how nuclear war can be avoided and whether it is possible to build a world without nuclear weapons.

Gennady Evstafiev was a Soviet and Russian intelligence officer and diplomat, Lieutenant General of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR). Gennady Evstafiev played a leading role in the preparation of the following SVR’s public reports: A New Challenge After the Cold War: Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (1993)^[3] and The Treaty of the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Problems of Extension (1995)^[4]. After his retirement in 2003, he was Senior Advisor, then Senior Vice-President of PIR Center. When he worked in PIR Center, arms control, and the establishment of new security arrangements in Europe always remained in his focus. His book includes interviews, articles and reviews devoted to international security issues.

PIR Center cherishes the memory of both these distinguished authors. In order to preserve their heritage PIR Center launched several initiatives.

In 2022, the Commission for the Preservation of Ambassador Roland Timerbaev Scientific and Creative Legacy was established. The Commission is responsible for the selection, editing and publication of materials for the second and third volumes of Timerbaev’s Anthology. In addition, since 2020 PIR Center has held International Timerbaev Nuclear Debates which are a platform for discussing key issues of nuclear nonproliferation, arms control, strategic stability, global security in general, as well as an effective tool for the formation of a new generation of experts in international security. Detailed information on them can be found at Roland Timerbaev: Memory Gallery, developed by PIR Center at its educational and training platform NONPROLIFERATION.WORLD^[5].

In 2022, the Commission on the Legacy of Lieutenant General Gennady Evstafiev was established as well. The purpose of the Commission is to publish selected works of General Evstafiev as well as a photo archive, other archival materials (to the extent that they are available to us), as well as the development of the Gennady Evstafiev’s Memory Gallery on PIR Center website. In 2021, in remembrance of Lieutenant General Evstafiev PIR Center established a competition Gennady Evstafiev Award (or the Evstafiev Award) for the best research work in the field of international security^[6]. Any author who is no older than 30 years is eligible to participate in the contest. The submitted (research) paper should be written in English or Russian and must be exclusive; the submission of the documents implies that the contestants agree to provide PIR Center with the copyright.

[1] Тимербаев Р.М. Избранное / Серия «ПИР-Библиотека». М.: ПИР-Пресс, Издательство «Весь Мир», 2023. URL: https://pircenter.org/Anthology-of-Roland-Timerbaev

[2] Евстафьев Г.М. Избранное. К 85-летию со дня рождения. Серия «ПИР-Библиотека».М.: Издательство «Весь Мир»; ПИР-Пресс, 2023. URL: https://pircenter.org/Anthology-of-Gennady-Evstafiev

[3] «Новый вызов после «Холодной войны»: распространение оружия массового уничтожения». Открытый доклад СВР России 1993 г. // Служба внешней разведки Российской Федерации. Документы. URL: http://svr.gov.ru/material.htm.

[4] «Договор о нераспространении ядерного оружия. Проблемы продления». Открытый доклад СВР России 1995 г. // Служба внешней разведки Российской Федерации. Документы. URL: http://svr.gov.ru/material.htm.

[5] Memory Galleries // PIR Center NONPROLIFERATION.WORLD Platform for education and training. URL: https://pircenter.org/en/memory-galleries/.

[6] Evstafiev Award // PIR Center. URL: https://pircenter.org/en/evstafiev-award.

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