Publications
This page features a compilation of the publications from our working groups.
Forthcoming
- Armend Bekaj and Peter Wallensteen (eds) Verification in nuclear arms control: between compliance and controversy, London: Routledge.
–An inter-disciplinary, collaborative project of all AMC working groups.
2025
- Isak Svensson and Ulrika Möller, Nuclear Negotiations: Conditions for Effective Nuclear Diplomacy | SpringerLink
- Isak Svensson: ”Success in nuclear negotiations: What is it? How can it be reached?” in Isak Svensson and Ulrika Möller (eds): Making nuclear negotiations effective: What research tells us, Springer, 2025
- Svensson, Isak & Ulrika Möller (2025) ‘The Fading Heartbeat of Nuclear Diplomacy, and its Remedy’ in Svensson, Isak & Ulrika Möller (2025, red.) Nuclear Negotiations: Conditions for effective nuclear diplomacy, series ‘Perspectives on global affairs’, Springer.
- Möller, Ulrika (2025) ‘First Banning Tests, then Banning Weapons: Lessons from Multilateral Negotiations for Nuclear Disarmament’ in Svensson, Isak & Ulrika Möller (red.) Nuclear Negotiations: Conditions for effective nuclear diplomacy, series ‘Perspectives on global affairs’, Springer.
- Stephen Herzog: Layered Verification: Irreversible Nuclear Disarmament and Highly Latent Nuclear States, a VERTIC Report
- Doğukan Cansın Karakuş. Incentives and Trust-building Over Sanction: Turkey and Brazil's Mediation of the Tehran Agreement Amid the Iranian Nuclear Crisis
- Bekaj, Armend. Sanctions for nuclear non-proliferation, in Portela, Clara, Andrea Charron and Mirko Sossai (eds) Elgar Encyclopedia of International Sanctions. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 268-270. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781035339532.
- Peter Wallensteen and Armend Bekaj, Policy brief. Preventing Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: The Role of Sanctions - published by University of Notre Dame - Keough School of Global Affairs.
- Emma Rosengren & Thomas Jonter
Challenging the hegemonic nuclear order avant la lettre: Alva Myrdal and the negotiation of the NPT, in the journal Cold war History - Alexander H. Montgomery, The Nonproliferation Implications of the Spread of Emerging Technologies, roundtable at H-Diplo | Robert Jervis International Security Studies Forum: Nuclear Nonproliferation and Emerging Technologies
- Thomas Jonter, Astrid Brodén & Emma Rosengren, Nuclear arms control, non-proliferation and disarmament in the Nordic region: Lessons from the past and possible routes ahead | Utrikespolitiska institutet UI Report 2/2025
- Thomas Jonter, Olof Palme and the Peace Movements in Sweden in the Late Cold War Period, in (Eds. Luc-André Brunet and Eirini Karamouzi), Beyond the Euromissile Crisis: Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War. Berghahn Books, 2025.
2024
- Tom Sauer, “The Potentially Revolutionary Impact of Emerging and Disruptive Technologies and Strategic Conventional Weapons on the Nuclear Deterrence Debate”, EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium: non-proliferation and disarmament papers, No. 91
December 2024 - Marat Atnashev, Arvid Bell: ”Will a Ceasefire Remain Elusive? Assessing Negotiation Readiness in Russia-Ukraine War”, Russia Matters, Havard Kennedy School, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, September 25, 2024
- Megan Dee, “Minilateralism and effective multilateralism in the global nuclear order”, Contemporary Security Policy, July 2024
- Tom Sauer “How useful are nuclear weapons in practice? Case-study: the war in Ukraine”, Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, May 2024
- Tom Sauer, “The Failed Negotiations to Restore the Iran Nuclear Deal’, Global Policy, May 2024.
- Book Edited by Armend Bekaj and Peter Wallensteen: Sanctions for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Moving Forward, Routledge. Review: Pensamiento Propio (a journal edited in Argentina with broad circulation in Latin America)
- Jansson, Siri; Tereza Heiligová, Daike Möhrle, Robertas Skipitis, Magnus Öberg 2024. The Agreement Datasets Code Book & List of Variables. Uppsala: Alva Myrdal Center for Nuclear Disarmament, Uppsala University.
- The AMC Data Arms control Agreements Datasets: The Agreement Dataset, The Weapons & Facilities Dataset, The Verified Compliance Mechanism Dataset, The Agreement Associations Dataset.
- Schalz, M., Branger E., Göttsche, M., Grape, S., Gustavsson, C., Assessing Pakistan's Fissile Material Production, (2024), Science & Global Security
- Wan, W., Synergies between women, peace and security and the governance of WMD (Essay, October 2024)
- Erästö, T., Reducing the Role of Nuclear Weapons in Military Alliances (SIPRI, Stockholm : June 2024)
- Raju, N. and Wan, W., Escalation Risks at the Space–Nuclear Nexus (SIPRI, Stockholm: February 2024)
- Chernavskikh, V., Nuclear Weapons and Artificial Intelligence: Technological Promises and Practical Realities (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2024)
- Thomas Jonter, "Sweden: Nuclear Acquisition or Disarmament" in Lottaz, Pascal & Iwama, Yōko (red.), Neutral Europe and the Creation of the Nonproliferation Regime: 1958-1968, Routledge, Abingdon, England, 2024.
- Bell, M. S. (2024). The Russia-Ukraine War and Nuclear Weapons: Evaluating Familiar Insights. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 1–15.
- Emma Rosengren & Tapio Juntunen. 2024. Naturalising nuclear deterrence. A comparative analysis of Finnish and Swedish discourses on nuclear weapon politics, 2016-22 Nordic Review of International Studies
- Mark S. Bell (2024). Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: The Old Lessons about Nuclear Weapons being Re-Observed in Ukraine. H-Diplo.
- Thomas Jonter & Emma Rosengren (2024). Advocating Nuclear Disarmament as NATO Members — Lessons from the Past and Possible Routes ahead for Finland and Sweden. H-Diplo.
- Thomas Jonter and Emma Rosengren (2024). "Sverige, kärnvapen och nedrustning: Är nedrustningspolitik fortsatt förenlig med ett NATO-medlemskap?" In Linus Hagström (Ed.), Är Sverige säkert nu? Perspektiv på Nato och svensk säkerhetspolitik. Carlsson förlag.
2023
- Rebecca Davis Gibbons & Stephen Herzog, “Nuclear Disarmament and Russia’s War on Ukraine: The Ascendance and Uncertain Future of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons”, in Rebecca Davis Gibbons, Stephen Herzog, Wilfred Wan, and Doreen Horschig, The Altered Nuclear Order in the Wake of the Russia-Ukraine War, Cambridge, Mass.: American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2023, 1-36.
- Branger, P. Andersson, V. Fedchenko, S. Grape, C. Gustavsson, R. Kelley, D. Trombetta, Plutonium Production under Uranium Constraint, Science & Global Security, (2023)
- Preston et al., Methodology for Multiparameter Evaluation of Barriers Against Proliferation of Minor Actinides, Nuclear Technology, (2023)
- S Grape, E. Branger, C. Gustavsson, R. Kelley, Simulating submarine reactor fuel in light of the AUKUS deal, ESARDA Bulletin - The International Journal of Nuclear Safeguards and Non-proliferation, ISSN 1977-5296, Vol. 65, p. 34-43. (2023)
- Erästö, T., More investment in nuclear deterrence will not make Europe safer (Essay, December 2023 )
- Raju, N. and Erästö, T., The Role of Space Systems in Nuclear Deterrence (SIPRI, Stockholm: September 2023)
- Wilfred Wan, Vladislav Chernavskikh (Red.) (2023) Expanding Perspectives on Nuclear Disarmament
- Erästö, T., The Role of Umbrella States in the Global Nuclear Order (SIPRI, Stockholm: June 2023)
Expanding Perspectives on Nuclear Disarmament
Working Paper Compendium, December 2023
This compendium of working papers pdf, 2 MB. features contributions by the members of the AMC Working Group on Nuclear Disarmament in Policy and International Law, and by students and early-career professionals selected following an open call for abstracts.
2022
- Book Edited by Peter Wallensteen and Armend Bekaj, Alva Myrdal: A Pioneer in Nuclear Disarmament, Springer International Publishing
- Robert Kelley, Sophie Grape (Contributor), Erik Branger, (Contributor), Cecilia Gustavsson (Contributor). 2022. OPCW as a Model for a TPNW Struture
- Erästö, T., Revisiting ‘Minimal Nuclear Deterrence’: Laying the Ground for Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament (SIPRI, Stockholm: June 2022)
- Rosengren, E. 2022. Alva Myrdal and Disarmament in a Man’s World. In: Wallensteen, P., Bekaj, A. (eds) Alva Myrdal: A Pioneer in Nuclear Disarmament. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 31. Springer, Cham.
- Jonter, T. 2022. In the Game of Disarmament. In: Wallensteen, P., Bekaj, A. (eds) Alva Myrdal: A Pioneer in Nuclear Disarmament. Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 31. Springer, Cham.