Abstract /
Has Russia's war in Ukraine upended the global nuclear order? This talk will focus on two questions. First, what have we learned about nuclear weapons after two years of war? Second, what are the implications of the war for the global nuclear order?
Presenter bio /
Nina Tannenwald is Senior Lecturer and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Political Science Department at Brown University, USA. In 2023 she served as Fulbright Visiting Professor of International Studies at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna. She is also former Director of the International Relations Program at Brown’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Her research focuses on the role of international institutions, norms and ideas in global security issues, efforts to control weapons of mass destruction, and human rights and the laws of war. Her book, The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Non-use of Nuclear Weapons Since 1945 was awarded the Lepgold Prize in 2009 for best book in international relations. Her publications have appeared in International Security, International Organization, Journal of Strategic Studies, Security Studies, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Washington Quarterly, Daedelus, and Ethics and International Affairs, among others. She has served as visiting professor at Stanford University, Cornell University, and the U.S. Naval War College. In 2012-2013, she served as a Franklin Fellow in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation in the U.S. State Department. She holds a master’s degree from the Columbia School of International and Public Affairs and a Ph.D. in international relations from Cornell University.