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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. Dr 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. 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. Two focal points of Dr Cronberg's current research are the role of Russia in the nuclear order and innovative approaches to nuclear weapon-free zones.
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.)
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., 'The militarisation of non-proliferation: will the NPT survive?', Commentary, European Leadership Network (11 July 2025)
- Cronberg, T. 'The one-person monopoly of nuclear launches', Commentary, European Leadership Network (11 Jan. 2023)
- Working Group 2, The Inadmissibility of Nuclear Threats Within the NPT, Policy Brief, European Leadership Network (July 2023)
- Cronberg, T., 'The security of nuclear weapon-free zones: the Middle East as a test case for unconditional security assurances', Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, vol. 5 no. 1 (June 2022)
- Cronberg, T., 'Zero calculated ambiguity: unconditional security assurances for NWFZ-states limit the space for deterrence', Journal of Political Science and International Relations, vol. 4 no.3 (Aug. 2021)
- Cronberg, T., Renegotiating the Nuclear Order, Routledge Global Security Studies (2021)
- Cronberg, T., 'No EU, no Iran deal: the EU's choice between multilateralism and the transatlantic link', Nonproliferation Review, vol. 24 no. 3–4 (9 Feb 2018)
- Cronberg, T. and van der Meer, S., Working Towards a Successful NPT 2020 Review Conference, Policy Brief, Clingendael Institute (Sep 2017)
- Cronberg, T., Nuclear Multilateralism and Iran: Inside EU Negotiations, Routledge (2017)
- Cronberg, T., Nuclear-Free Security. Refocusing Nuclear Disarmament and the Review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Finnish Institute of International Affairs (2010)
- Cronberg, T., 'The US missile defence: technology primacy in action', B. Heurlin B. and S. Rynning (eds), Missile Defence. International, Regional and National Implications, Routledge (2005)
- Cronberg, T., Transforming Russia: From Military to a Peace Economy, I. B. Tauris (2003)
- Cronberg, T., 'Border-crossings: the co-construction of national security and regional development', H. Eskelinen, I. Liikanen and J. Oksa (eds), Curtains of Iron and Gold: Reconstructing Borders and Scales of Interaction, Ashgate (1999)
- Cronberg, T., 'The feeling of home: Russian women in the defense industry and the transformation of their identities', European Journal of Women's Studies, vol. 4 no. 3 (Aug. 1997)
- Cronberg, T., 'Concepts of military technology: contesting the boundaries between the civilian and the military', P. Gummett, M. Boutousoy, J. Farkas and A. Rip (eds), Military R&D after the Cold War: Conversion and Technology Transfer in Eastern and Western Europe, NATO ASI Series, Kluwer Academic (1996)