Working group 1: Negotiating Nuclear Disarmament

Working Group 1 focuses on the processes of multilateral negotiations aimed at disarmament, non-proliferation, and management of nuclear weapons. We seek to stimulate research, bringing together some of the leading international scholars in the study of negotiation research and scholars focusing specifically on the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and other forms of nuclear negotiations.

The key task that we have set before us is to use scientific evidence to bear on the following research question: How can processes of nuclear negotiations become more effective in containing, controlling, and reducing nuclear weapon programmes?

The priority will be to identify the key procedural conditions that can increase negotiation effectiveness and to identify the key obstacles that prevent nuclear negotiations from making progress.

Research Tasks and Priorities

• The members of our international Working Group do research on various aspects relating to, and relevant for, nuclear diplomacy.
• The book Nuclear Negotiations: Conditions for Effective Nuclear Diplomacy (eds Svensson and Möller), to be published at Springer (in the series Perspectives on Global Affairs), provides an up-to-date overview of the most important areas of research when it comes to contemporary nuclear diplomacy.
• NucNeg is the name of a database under construction, mapping over 1,600 negotiation episodes in multilateral, bilateral, and country-specific negotiations on nuclear weapons programmes.
• Nuclear Negotiations 2024: The Year in Review. Our first annual review of the most important events when it comes to nuclear negotiations is under production.

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