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Tarja Cronberg

Former Member, European Parliament and Distinguished Associate Fellow, SIPRI

ELN Task Force Finland

Dr Tarja Cronberg is a Distinguished Associate Fellow with the European Security Programme at SIPRI and a member of the ELN Board. She was a Member of the European Parliament, where she chaired the European Parliament’s delegation for relations with Iran (2011-2014). Previously, she was a member of Parliament in Finland and served as the Minister of Labour. She has also held the post of the Chair of the Green League Party.

Throughout her career, Dr Cronberg specialised in defence and security issues, working as a Special Advisor on nuclear disarmament for the Finnish Institute for International Affairs and was the former Director of Copenhagen Peace Research Institute. After the end of the Cold War, she led a research programme on conversion of military industries to civilian production (Russia and the US).

She is the author of Multilateralism and Iran: Inside the EU Negotiations (Routledge, 2017) and Renegotiating the Nuclear Order (Routledge, 2021).

Content by Tarja Cronberg

Commentary

‘NATO 3.0’ and Europe’s security future

European security architecture is at a crossroads as NATO and the EU search for new roles amid growing uncertainty over the future of transatlantic security. With debate over a more European NATO and a European nuclear umbrella gathering pace, Tarja Cronberg argues that the Ankara summit will test whether allies can move beyond technical debates about defence spending and burden-sharing to articulate a collective vision for Europe’s future security order.

7 July 2026 | Tarja Cronberg
Euro-Atlantic Security
Report

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

This commentary collection compiles 11 articles by ELN network members and external collaborators as part of the ELN’s Protecting the Non-Proliferation Treaty project. The collection was published to align with the 2026 NPT Review Conference in New York City.

6 May 2026 | Jana Baldus, Julia Berghofer, Oliver Meier, Hans Blix, Steve Barwick, Edward Ifft, Tarja Cronberg, Almuntaser Albalawi, Bailey Schiff, Diya Ashtakala and Daniel Ajudeonu
Multilateral Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-ProliferationNPT Project
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