Experts available for interviews

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

Artificial Intelligence (AI); military AI; autonomous weapon systems; defence industry; digital ethics; political theory; ethics of political violence; just war theory; changing character of war; sociology of science

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.

International Humanitarian Law, autonomous weapon systems, military AI, remote warfare, gender and disarmament, and international security

Arms procurement, government accountability in armament issues, transparency of arms transfers

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

Comprehensive security, arms market trends and analysis, geopolitics and influences on the arms trade

Arms control; arms export controls and policies; Arms Trade Treaty; artificial intelligence; autonomous weapon systems; emerging technologies; international arms transfers; international humanitarian law; law of armed conflict; legal reviews; multilateral negotiations

Arms production, Transatlantic burden-sharing, Political Economy, Military Expenditure

Small Arms and Light Weapons (SALW) controls; dual-use and arms export controls; EU non-proliferation and disarmament policies; transparency of international arms transfers; Arms Trade Treaty

Arms Transfers

International Security, Arm Conflict, Arm Production and Military Expenditure

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

Biological disarmament and non-proliferation, biodefence, emerging technologies, governance

Military expenditure, Arms production, Development aid

Arms Trade, Military Expenditure

Dual-use and arms export controls; EU strategic trade controls; Arms Trade Treaty; small arms and light weapons (SALW) controls; export control-related international cooperation and assistance

Space law and policy, space security, international law, feminist legal theory

Arms control; non-proliferation; cybersecurity; nuclear strategy;  advanced conventional weapons;  technology development; crossdomain deterrence

Biorisk management; chemical and biological weapons; dual-use research; crisis preparedness and emergency response; global health security; multilateral policy coordination; biotechnology governance.

Military expenditure, civil war, economic growth, climate change

Nuclear risk reduction, multilateral nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament

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

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.

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

Development and humanitarian assistance, human security, conflicts and post-conflicts contexts

Nuclear weapons, nuclear energy/technology for civilian use, peacebuilding, the geopolitics of disruptive technologies 

Conflict Management, Peace Operations, Political and Criminal Violence, Organized Crime, Human Rights

EU Civilian CSDP, crisis management, peace operations, security and development, political geography

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

Chinese security policy; nuclear arms control and disarmament; nonproliferation and export controls; Sino-Indian relations; East Asian security

International and regional security, strategic nuclear relations, development and security nexus, agrarian transformation and food security, minority issues

Comparative politics, comparative policy process, policy analysis, political risk analysis, decision-making for public policy, interlinkages between climate, food, peace and security, gender equality, and European integration, EU institutions and policy-making

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

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

Development; natural resource governance; extractivism; green transition; land and water conflicts; agrarian conflicts; peace processes