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Maren Vieluf

Desk Officer, German Federal Foreign Office

YGLN Membership Germany

Maren Vieluf is a Desk Officer in the German Federal Foreign Office in the Division on International Cooperation against Terrorism, Drug Trafficking, Organized Crime and Corruption.

She is also a PhD Candidate at the Department of Political Science of the University of Innsbruck. Her dissertation focuses on the robustness of norms against nuclear weapons testing, proliferation, and use.

Maren holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from the University of Bremen and one in Peace and Security Studies from the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (ISFH). Previously, she was a researcher with the Challenges to Deep Cuts Project at the IFSH, and a research assistant in the International Security Research Division of the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP).

Content by Maren Vieluf

Report

Protecting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in turbulent times: Commentary collection

This commentary collection compiles 15 articles by 18 ELN network members and external collaborators as part of the ELN’s Protecting the Non-Proliferation Treaty project. The collection was originally published for the 2024 NPT Preparatory Committee.

Commentary

The NPT needs a common understanding of “nuclear threats”: Questions and tasks for the 11th NPT Review Cycle

YGLN members Maren Vieluf and Ananya Agustin Malhotra argue that NPT states need to start talking about whether or not “defensive” and “offensive” nuclear threats can be distinguished. If NPT states can find agreement on this matter, it could bridge the gap between states condemning any and all nuclear threats under any circumstances and those states that stand firmly behind “defensive” nuclear threats and allow for further progress to be made in the 11th NPT Review Cycle.

15 February 2024 | Maren Vieluf and Ananya Agustin Malhotra