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Dr Tarja Cronberg
Distinguished Associate Fellow
Dr Tarja Cronberg
Dr Tarja Cronberg is a Distinguished Associate Fellow within SIPRI’s Armament and Disarmament research area. Cronberg has a long record of activities both as an academic in security and peace studies and as a politician in foreign and security policy, with special focus on non-proliferation and nuclear disarmament. Most recently she, as a member of the European Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee and subcommittee for Security and Defence, worked with the Iran nuclear issue as the Chair of the EP´s delegation for relations with Iran. In December 2013 she led the first official delegation (in six years) of the EP to Iran.
Subject expertise
Security and defence, nuclear disarmament, regional security, military-civilian relations, missile defence, border studies, technology sociology
Regional expertise
Europe, Russia, Middle East (Iran)
CONTACT Dr Tarja Cronberg
Languages
Finnish, Swedish, Danish, English, French, Russian, German
Education
D. Econ. Copenhagen Business School (Inst of Working Life and Sociology), D.Tech. Lund University (Architecture/Building), M.Sci. Helsinki University of technology (Chem. Eng.)
Citizenship
Finland
Affiliations
- Executive Director, Board of European Leadership Network
- Greater Europe Task Force, European Leadership Network
- Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament
- Chair, Middle Powers Initiative (Global Security Institute)
- Chair Finnish Peace Union
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Will Europe’s latest move lead to the demise of the Iran nuclear deal? (Blog, )
- To stay or not to stay: Will Europe’s new trade initiative make a difference for Iran? (Blog, )
- The talk of the town in Tehran: Can the Europeans deliver? (Blog, )
- Will the EU and the USA part ways on the Iran deal? (Topical backgrounder, )
- After 72 years, nuclear weapons have been prohibited (Topical backgrounder, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- Opposing Trends: The Renewed Salience of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Abolitionism (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2018)
- The Great Balancing Act: EU Policy Choices during the Implementation of the Iran Deal (April 2016)
External publications
- Cronberg, T., No EU, no Iran deal: the EU's choice between multilateralism and the transatlantic link, The Nonproliferation Review (9 Feb 2018)
- Cronberg, T. and van der Meer, S., Working Towards a Successful NPT 2020 Review Conference, The Clingendael Institute, Policy Brief, Sept. 2017.
- Cronberg, T., Nuclear Multilateralism and Iran: Inside EU Negotiations, Routledge, London, 2017.
- Cronberg, T., Nuclear-Free Security. Refocusing Nuclear Disarmament and the Review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. (Finnish Institute of International Affairs: Helsinki, 2010).
- Cronberg, T., 'The U.S. Missile defence. Technology Primacy in Action' in Eds Heurlin B., Rynning S., Missile Defence. International, Regional and National Implications (Routledge: Abingdon, 2005).
- Cronberg, T., Transforming Russia: From Military to a Peace Economy (I.B. Tauris: London, 2003).
- Cronberg, T., 'Border-crossings. The Co-Construction of National Security and Regional Development.' in Eds Eskelinen, H., Liikanen, I., Oksa, J., Curtains of Iron and Gold. Reconstructing Borders and Scales of Interaction (Ashgate: Aldershof, 1999).
- Cronberg, T., The Feeling of Home. Russian Women in the Defense INdustry and the Transformation of Their Identities, European Journal of Women Studies, August 1997, Vol. 4. Issue 3.
- Cronberg, T., 'Concepts of Military Technology. Contesting the Boundaries between the Civilian and the Military' in Gummett, P., Boutousoy, M., Farkas, J., & Rip, A., Military R&D after the Cold War. Conversion and Technology Transfer in Eastern and Western Europe. NATO ASI Series (Kluwer Academic Publishers: Dordrecht, 1996).