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Dr Petr Topychkanov
Associate Senior Researcher
Dr Petr Topychkanov
Dr Petr Topychkanov is an Associate Senior Researcher in the SIPRI Weapons of Mass Destruction Programme. Petr works on issues related to nuclear nonproliferation, disarmament, arms control, and the impact of new technologies on strategic stability.
Petr holds the position of Senior Researcher at the Center for International Security at the Primakov National Research Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is an Assistant Professor at the School of World Politics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. From 2006 to 2017, Petr Topychkanov was a research fellow at the Carnegie Moscow Center’s Nonproliferation Program.
Subject expertise
Nonproliferation; arms control; disarmament; defense industry; military technological cooperation; peaceful nuclear cooperation.
CONTACT Dr Petr Topychkanov
Languages
Russian, English, French, Hindi, Urdu
Education
Ph.D. in History, Institute of Asian and African Studies, Moscow State University
SIPRI COMMENTARY
- Russia’s nuclear doctrine moves the focus from non-Western threats (Blog, )
- New trends and developments in border tensions between China and India (Blog, )
- Russian and US policies on the INF Treaty endanger arms control (Topical backgrounder, )
SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS
- South Asia’s Nuclear Challenges: Interlocking Views from India, Pakistan, China, Russia and the United States (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2021)
- Reinvigorating South Asian Nuclear Transparency and Confidence-building Measures (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2021)
- Enhancing South Asian Nuclear Dialogues: The Implications of Covid-19 (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2021)
- The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk, Volume III, South Asian Perspectives (April 2020)
- Artificial Intelligence, Strategic Stability and Nuclear Risk (June 2020)
- Towards Greater Nuclear Restraint: Raising the Threshold for Nuclear Weapon Use (SIPRI, Stockholm: May 2020)
- Operationalizing Nuclear Disarmament Verification (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2019)
- Setting the Stage for Progress towards Nuclear Disarmament (SIPRI, Stockholm: April 2018)
External publications
- Topychkanov, P. and Nessar, O., Kabul and Islamabad: Myths and reality. The relationship dynamics between Afghanistan and Pakistan after the Taliban regime was established. Russia in Global Affairs, 21(5), 219–233 (2023)
- Topychkanov, P.Military-industrial cooperation between Pakistan and Ukraine. Eksport Vooruzheniy (Arms Exports), 172, 3–8 (2023).
- Topychkanov, P., Chapter 12: Russia’s nuclear doctrine journey. In P. Menon & A. Ramanathan (Eds.), The Sheathed Sword. From Nuclear Brink to No First Use (1st ed., pp. 155–165). Bloomsbury Publishing (2022)
- Topychkanov, P., The Crisis of Nuclear Arms Control amid Russia’s Military Offense Against Ukraine. In: Sinovets, P., Alberque, W. (eds) Arms Control and Europe. Contributions to International Relations. Springer, Cham (2022)
- Topychkanov, P., ‘Myriad Risks: Nuclear Doctrines in the Asia-Pacific’, Global Asia, vol. 16, no. 2, The East Asia Foundation: Seoul, pp. 22-25 (June 2021)
- Topychkanov, P., Chapter 12: Russia’s defence spending and procurement, in ed. Andrew T.H. Tan, Research Handbook on the Arms Trade, Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, pp. 183-192 (Dec 2020)
- Topychkanov, P., 'Special report: Assessing the modernization of nuclear postures’, Asia Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament: Seoul (Oct 2020)
- Topychkanov, P., ‘Soviet (Russian) - U.S.-Russian Interaction on Nuclear Nonproliferation in South Asia’, eds. Orlov, V. and Semenov, S., Russia-U.S. Nuclear Nonproliferation Dialogue: Lessons Learned and Road Ahead (PIR Press: Moscow, 2021), pp. 103-108
- Topychkanov, P., 'Taking Forward the Dialogue on Nuclear Risk Reduction', Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 4:sup1, 157-162 (May 2021)
- Topychkanov, P., ‘Role of the Armed Forces in the Political System of Pakistan,’ eds. Borisov, T. and Makienko, K., Pakistan Beyond Stereotypes, Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies, Moscow, , pp. 98-113 (2019)
- Topychkanov, P., 'US–Soviet/Russian Dialogue on the Nuclear Weapons Programme of India', Strategic Analysis, 42(3): 251-259 (2018)
- Topychkanov, P., 'The Penetration of Corruption in India’s Political Processes: The Case of Military-Technological Cooperation,' Moscow University Bulletin, Series 12, Political Science, 1: 82-103 (2018)
- Topychkanov, P. 'Kashmir Issue: Regional Roots, Global Dimensions,' Orientaliska Studier, 154: 89-101 (2018)