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Report | 31 July 2024

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

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Michael Biontino |former Permanent Representative to the Conference on Disarmament

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Sanaa Alvira |Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)

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Olamide Samuel |Special Envoy of the Executive Secretary of the African Commission on Nuclear Energy (AFCONE)

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Dr Irmgard Niemeyer |Head of the Nuclear Safeguards and Security Division at Forschungszentrum Jülich

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Ward Wilson |Executive Director of RealistRevolt, former senior fellow at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies and BASIC

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Paul Ingram |Research affiliate at the University of Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER)

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Alexander Kmentt |Ambassador, Director for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation at the Austrian Foreign Ministry

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Maximilian Hoell |Postdoctoral research fellow at the Center for Global Security Research

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Tarja Cronberg |Former Member of the European Parliament, Distinguished Associate Fellow at SIPRI

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Daniel Ajudeonu |Leadership Team Member, International Student/Young Pugwash

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These commentaries have been published as part of the ELN’s project, Protecting the Non-Proliferation Treaty.

The project seeks to preserve the multilateral nuclear non-proliferation regime and prevent further erosion of the nuclear taboo and the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). Bringing together an intergenerational, pan-regional Network of experts, it works to identify pathways to success in the eleventh review cycle, taking a holistic approach to the NPT and its three pillars.

Featured commentaries include:

  • Never let a good crisis go to waste: The impact of great power conflict on the nuclear non proliferation regime and what to do about it
    Oliver Meier
  • Preparing for the 2026 Review Conference: Pragmatic steps toward an improved NPT Review Cycle
    Michael Biontino
  • Gender as a flashpoint: Risks and resolutions for the NPT review process
    Sanaa Alvira and Shizuka Kuramitsu
  • Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine continues to threaten the nuclear order’s grand bargain
    Olamide Samuel
  • 10 lessons learned as the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification turns 10
    Irmgard Niemeyer
  • The NPT needs a common understanding of “nuclear threats”: Questions and tasks for the 11th NPT Review Cycle
    Maren Vieluf and Ananya Agustin Malhotra
  • The extreme nature of nuclear deterrence
    Ward Wilson and Paul Ingram
  • How would humans react to nuclear catastrophe?
    Adam Thomson and Paul Ingram
  • Deterrence of non-nuclear strategic threats: The case against deterring new technologies
    Julia Berghofer
  • Time to engage seriously with the TPNW’s security concerns
    Alexander Kmentt
  • Quieting the nuclear rattle: Responding to Russia’s tactical nuclear weapons exercises
    Pavel Podvig
  • Why and how the NPT must prepare for an arms control interregnum in the post-New START era
    Maximilian Hoell
  • How to bolster nuclear-weapon-free zones
    Tarja Cronberg
  • Why Iran’s missile strikes pose a real problem for Pakistan
    Rishi Paul
  • Unleashing the power of Pillar III of the Non-Proliferation Treaty for sustainable development in Africa
    Daniel Ajudeonu

Read the commentary collection here

The European Leadership Network itself as an institution holds no formal policy positions. The opinions articulated in these commentaries represent the views of the author(s) rather than the European Leadership Network or its members. The ELN aims to encourage debates that will help develop Europe’s capacity to address the pressing foreign, defence, and security policy challenges of our time, to further its charitable purposes.

We operate as a charity registered in England and Wales under Registered Charity Number 1208594.

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