Dr. Potter is the author, editor, or co-editor of over 20 books and has authored more than 125 articles and book chapters, including in Arms Control Today, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, International Organization, International Security, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Problems of Communism, Slavic Review, Survival, and the Washington Quarterly.
[2] His present research focuses on nuclear terrorism and proliferation issues involving the post-Soviet states.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy, and served for five years on the United Nations' Secretary-General's Advisory Board on Disarmament Matters and the Board of Trustees of the UN Institute for Disarmament Research.
[3] He currently serves on the International Advisory Board of the Center for Policy Studies in Russia (Moscow).
Dr. Potter is one of a limited number of non-Russian nationals honored by the Academy, and only the second American—after Henry Kissinger in 2016—ever elected to the RAS Global Issues and International Relations Section.