Publications

2025

  • Bandarra, Leonardo 2025: “A verification cotton between three crystal glasses”: ABACC and Alternative Nuclear Verification Mechanisms in South America (1967-1992), in: Revista Brasileira de Política Internacional, 68:1, 1-21.
  • Bandarra, L. (2025). (Re-)ordering from the periphery: hierarchy complexes and agency in the global nuclear order. Cambridge Review of International Affairs, 38(3), 363–390.
  • Yanikömer, N., Niemeyer, I. (2025). Systems-Based Approach to Verification in Disarmament under the TPNW. Proceedings of the 66th INMM Annual Meeting.
  • Yanikömer, N., Niemeyer, I. (2025). Optimizing Verification Strategies for Irreversible Nuclear Disarmament: A Systems-Based Approach. AMC 2025 Conference proceeding.

2024

  • Bandarra, L. (2024). Constructing the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: The Participation Puzzle. Switzerland: Springer Nature.
  • Bandarra, L. (2024). Prohibitionism in Brazilian Nuclear Nonproliferation Policy: from rejecting the NPT to sponsoring the TPNW. In.: Wittmann, Christian (ed.). The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: A Breaking Point in the Global Nuclear Order. Bagé, Brazil: UNIPAMPA Press.
  • Bandarra, L., Mayhew, N., & Göttsche, M. (2024). The IAEO and Irreversibility: Addressing Political, Institutional, and Technological Verification Challenges in Former Nuclear-Armed States. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 1–20.
  • Bandarra, L. & Martuscelli, P. N. (2024). Moving Forward to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons (?): How Regional Issues Shape Global Non-proliferation and Disarmament Politics. Peace Review, 36(2), 179–189.
  • Bandarra, L., Böschen, S., Dürholt, A., Geiser, R., Göttsche, M., Kretzschmar, S., Niemeyer, I., Ostermann, L., Rademacher, L., & Schäfer, J. (2024). Nuclear Safeguards during Crises: Three Scenarios of Restricted Access to Nuclear Interim Storage Facilities. Zeitschrift für Friedens und Konfliktforschung
  • Göttsche, M. (2024). Nuclear archaeology to assess fissile-material inventories for nuclear safety and security, transparency, and disarmament. The Nonproliferation Review, 30(1–3), 131–150.
  • Kretzschmar, S., Rademacher, L. & Göttsche, M. (2024). Reconstructing nuclear histories with archives – hands-on lessons learned. Proceedings of the INMM 2024 Annual Meeting.
  • Niemeyer, I., Westerich-Fellner, K., Krieger, T., Schäfer, J. & Ostermann, L. (2024). Safeguards-relevant information & safeguards resilience-findings from a VeSPoTec tabletop exercise. Proceedings of the INMM 2024 Annual Meeting.
  • Ostermann, L. & Schäfer, J. (2024). “We’re Taking Back the Narrative”. An Interview with Benetick Kabua Maddison, of the Marshallese Educational Initiative. Peace Review, 36(2), 222–226.
  • Rademacher, L. & Göttsche, M. (2024). Forensic Measurements for Nuclear Archaeology – Trawsfynydd revisited. Proceedings of the INMM 2024 Annual Meeting.
  • Rotte, R. (2024). Neue Reaktortechnologien, strategische Deglobalisierung und “Tech Wars”: Kontraproduktive Folgen für das nukleare Nonproliferations- und Verifikationsregime?.
  • Rotte, R. (2024). Die neue Unübersichtlichkeit nuklearer Sicherheitspolitik: Technologische und institutionelle Aspekte. SocArXiv.
  • Rotte, R. (2024). Die neue Weltunordnung: Implikationen für Europa und Deutschland. In: Schaprian, J./Wagner, R. (eds.). Operation Zeitenwende – eine Zwischenbilanz: Was Gesellschaft und Bundeswehr leisten müssen, Berlin: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 71-82.
  • Senn, M. & Wunderlich, C. (2024): The Complexity of Nuclear (Dis)Ordering: A Research Agenda. Cambridge Review of International Affairs 1–21.

2023

  • Kretzschmar, S. & Göttsche, M. (2023). Reconstructing nuclear histories: a field study. Proceedings of the INMM and ESARDA joint annual meeting 2023.
  • Ostermann, L., Schäfer, J., Göttsche, M., Böschen, S. (2023). Verification Regimes: Challenges of Knowing and Deciding within Knowledge Infrastructures. Proceedings of the INMM and ESARDA joint annual meeting 2023.
  • Suh, E. & Wunderlich, C. (2023). Herausforderungen eines dritten Nuklearzeitalters. Wissenschaft & Frieden 2023/1, 61-62

2022

  • Baldus, Jana; Brzoska, Michael; Fehl, Caroline; Hach, Sascha; Kütt, Moritz; Vieluf, Maren; Wunderlich, Carmen; Thies, Tim (2022): Rüstungsdynamiken: Abrüsten statt Wettrüsten,in:Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)/Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK)/Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (eds), Friedensgutachten 2022, Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 91-109
  • Bandarra, L. & Wunderlich, C. (2022). [Análisis] Primera reunión del Tratado de Prohibición de las Armas Nucleares. In: El Espectador, 30th June 2022.
  • Bandarra, L. & Wunderlich, C. (2022). The nuclear governance multiverse in a nutshell: The 2022 conferences and the prohibition and nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. In: INEF/sef: Development and Peace Blog. 
  • Beumer, L. & I. Niemeyer (2022). Developing a big data framework for processing Sentinel-2 data in the context of nuclear safeguards. ESARDA Bulletin 64(1), 75-87 (2022)
  • Dolev, S. & Bandarra, L. (2022). Towards an Achievable WMDFZ Treaty for the Middle East: Insights from Civil Society. Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, 5(1), 9–27.
  • Göttsche, M. (2022). Militärische Macht. In: Atomausstieg in Deutschland. Viele Aufgaben in der nuklearen Sicherheit bleiben. Bundesamt für die Sicherheit der nuklearen Entsorgung (BASE), 26-29.
  • Rublee, M. R., & Wunderlich, C. (2022). The vitality of the NPT after 50. Contemporary Security Policy, 43(1), 5–23.

Policy Papers

  • Westerich-Fellner, K. J. (2025). Up in arms: European security options for a post-cooperative era. Commentary for the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR).
  • Bandarra, L. (2024). The Mutual-Reinforcement and Interdependence between Global Nuclear Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Regional Security Initiatives. Working Paper for NPT PrepCom.
  • Niemeyer, I. (2024). 10 at 10: 10 lessons learned as the International Partnership for Nuclear Disarmament Verification turns 10 on European Leadership Network. Commentary for the European Leadership Network (ELN). https://europeanleadershipnetwork.org/?p=22475
  • Westerich-Fellner, K. J. (2024). Nuclear disarmament verification and the NPT: De-politicising the political. Commentary for the European Leadership Network (ELN).