Leonardo Bandarra is a senior researcher at the Institute for Development and Peace at the University of Duisburg–Essen, Germany, working on nuclear verification, trust, and perspectives from the Global South as part of VeSPoTec (Nuclear Verification in a Complex and Unpredictable World: Social, Political, and Technical Processes), a research consortium funded by the German Federal Ministry of Research, Technology and Space. He is also a director of the Middle East Treaty Organization (METO). Leonardo holds a PhD in political science from the University of Göttingen, in collaboration with the German Institute for Global and Regional Studies (GIGA); an MA and BA in international relations from the University of Brasília; and a university diploma in international nuclear law from the University of Montpellier in France. He is the author of Constructing the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime: The Participation Puzzle (2024). His work has been published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Nonproliferation Review, Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, Zefko, and the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
Leonardo Bandarra
Senior Researcher, Institute for Development and Peace, University of Duisburg-Essen
Content by Leonardo Bandarra
Commentary
When the cornerstone cracks: the NPT and the future of the global nuclear order
After 16 years without a consensus final document, write Carmen Wunderlich and Leonardo Bandarra, the challenge facing the NPT is less about disagreement on specific issues than about growing doubts over the role and value of the review process within an increasingly complex nuclear order, and amid geopolitical shifts and the renewed prominence of nuclear deterrence in global security policy.