Jannis Kappelmann M.A., Researcher and PhD Student at University of Hamburg Summer 2024 Historically, the Global Governance of Nuclear Weapons has relied on gendered assumptions, practices and speech acts - and it does to this day. Feminist activists, since the very beginning of the so-called ‘nuclear age’, were among the staunchest opposition against nuclear weapons, […]

Jannis Kappelmann M.A., Researcher and PhD Student at University of Hamburg Summer 2024 Ever since they were built, the Global Governance of Nuclear Weapons has been a contentious topic both among politicians and political scientists. With realists frequently stressing the deterring power of nuclear weapons, liberal scholars referring to the resilience of the regime of […]

Dr. Ulrich Kühn & Tim Thies Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) Summer 2024 For more than a decade, nuclear arms control is in a crisis that saw the stagnation and even collapse of important arms control processes. At the same time, Russia’s war against Ukraine demonstrates that […]