Federica Dall’Arche is a Senior Research Associate at the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation (VCDNP), and a former policy advisor to the Italian Presidency of The Council of Ministers (Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri). Her focus is on arms control. non-proliferation and disarmament, and on gender in international security. She graduated summa cum laude in political science at the University of Roma Tre and won a full merit scholarship for an exchange programme at the Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Dall’Arche obtained her Master’s degree in Non-proliferation and Terrorism Studies and a Certificate in Conflict Resolution at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey (MIIS), California. In 2014, she won the Michiel Brandt Memorial Prize for best MIIS paper on Human Trafficking and conducted an internship at the Asian-Pacific Center for Security Studies, a U.S. Department of Defense academic institute. She was later the recipient of the United Nations Security Council Monitor Fellowship at the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and of the Non-proliferation and Nuclear Security Fellowship at the Pacific Forum – Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). During her career she has also worked at the International Affairs Institute (Istituto Affari Internazionali, IAI), at Deloitte UK, at the James Martin Center for Non-proliferation Studies (CNS), at the William Tell Coleman Library, and as a freelance collaborator for the magazines AirPress Formche and Geopolitica.info.
Federica Dall’Arche
Senior Research Associate, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Content by Federica Dall’Arche
Greenland, the United States and Arctic security: Towards a credible and principled Transatlantic response
Trump’s decision at Davos to temper earlier calls for US “ownership” of Greenland has lowered the immediate diplomatic temperature. Yet Greenland continues to occupy a central place in US defence planning and geoeconomic strategy, and the broader Arctic remains shaped by renewed Russian military activity and expanding Chinese economic interests. The underlying strategic drivers, therefore, persist, even if the rhetoric has softened. YGLN members write that this will have consequences for Europe and beyond, requiring increased cooperation and strengthening alliance cohesion.
European perspectives on the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Italy
In May, States Parties to the NPT will meet for the 11th Review Conference under difficult circumstances. While European support for and leadership in the NPT is more urgent than ever, it could be complicated by diverging priorities among European states. In the first of our commentary series exploring different European perspectives, YGLN member Federica Dall’Arche reflects on Italy’s perspective on the Treaty and its approach to the 2026 Review Conference. She writes that rather than focusing on ambitious normative breakthroughs, priority should be given to preserving the Treaty’s role as a stabilising framework.