- Member, Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism (2008)
- Member, U.S. Commission to Assess the Organization of the Federal Government to Combat the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (1999)
- Member, Senior Advisory Panel, Central Intelligence Agency
- Deputy for Nonproliferation Policy, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (1989-1993)
- Chairman of the Department of Defense’s Proliferation Countermeasures Working Group
Professor Sokolski is the author of Best of Intentions: America’s Campaign Against Strategic Weapons Proliferation,1945-2000.