Experts available for interviews

Export control (national control systems, international regimes, enforcement issues); non-proliferation; transparency of arms transfers

Autonomous weapons systems; artificial intelligence and robotics; arms production; defence industry; cybersecurity and surveillance technologies; securitization theory and risk governance; and international political sociology

Transparency of international arms transfers; financial value of the arms trade; arms export policies of EU member states; EU engagement in arms export policies; combatting the illicit trade in SALW; Arms Trade Treaty; controls on the trade in cyber-surveillance systems.

Bilateral arms control and deterrence, regional risk reduction, multilateral nuclear arms control treaties,  Iran nuclear issue, WMD free zone efforts in the Middle East

Nuclear technology; strategic forces technology; nuclear energy, nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel cycle, nuclear materials and fuel, uranium and plutonium; nuclear warheads, nuclear forensics and verification

Nuclear energy and fuel cycle, plutonium metallurgy, gas centrifuge design and operation, nuclear weapons design, nuclear emergency response and overhead imagery analysis

Nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament; strategic nuclear arms reductions; global nuclear forces and doctrines; missile proliferation; ballistic missile defence; weapons industry

Nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament; strategic nuclear arms reductions; global nuclear forces and doctrines; missile proliferation; ballistic missile defence; weapons industry

Arms Trade, Military Expenditure

Military expenditure, civil war, economic growth, climate change

Arms flows to and arms procurement, arms production and military expenditure in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa; the global arms trade; conventional arms control; proliferation of missiles and other long-range strike systems; arms embargoes; sources of arms for non-state armed groups; small arms and light weapons; national and multilateral transparency in armament issues; methodology of measuring armament developments.

Arms transfers; transparency in arms transfers; military technology; use of arms in conflicts; defence policies; methodology

Peacebuilding and peace consolidation, democratic transitions, state reform and decentralization, political parties, elections and citizenship building, UN peacekeeping operations and UN transitions

Non-proliferation; Korean Peninsula; Cybersecurity; Emerging technology; maritime security

Conflict resolution; conflict management; peace building; peace operations; military operations; multilateral security organisations; United Nations; African Union; rising powers in peace operations; international and regional security; complexity; comprehensive approaches in conflict management; asymmetric threats and non-traditional challenges; future foresight; scenarios methodology; evaluation

Conflict, human security, peacebuilding, and climate-resilient food systems

Climate security, post-conflict peacebuilding, Sustaining Peace, environmental and water security, Environmental Peacebuilding, political sociology