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.

Möser, R. E. (2025). South Africa’s disarmament and its ramifications: From the NPT to the Treaty of Pelindaba and MTCR adherence, 1988–1995. Journal of Strategic Studies, 1–25.

Pifer, S., Sinovets, P., Möser, R. E., Budjeryn, M. The Disintegration of the USSR and the Fate of the Soviet Nuclear Arsenal: Assessing Ukraine’s Relinquishment of Nuclear Weapons Left on Its Territory. Journal of Cold War Studies 2025, 27:1, 129–148.

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.

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.

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

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, 30^th 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.

Baldus, J., Brzoska, M., Fehl, C., Hach, S., Kütt, M., Thies, T., Vieluf, M., Wunderlich, C. (2022). Rüstungsdynamiken. Abrüsten statt Wettrüsten. In: BICC/HSFK/IFSH/INEF (Hg.): Friedensgutachten 2022, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 93-109.

Brunke, L. I., Debiel, T., Isikozlu, E., Perras, C., Rinck, P., Rosenberg, C., Scheyer, V., Ulbert, C., Wirkus, L., Wisotzki, S., Wunderlich, C. (2022). Gender, Diversität und Gewalt. Nachhaltiger Frieden. In: BICC/HSFK/IFSH/INEF (Hg.): Friedensgutachten 2022, Berlin: LIT Verlag, 69-88.

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).
Bandarra, L.; Kyaiei E., Dolev, S., (2023). The Biological Weapons Convention and the Weapons-of-Mass-Destruction-Free Zone in the Middle East. Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Policy Paper. https://rosalux.nyc/the-biological-weapons-convention-and-the-weapons-of-mass-destruction-free-zone-in-the-middle-east/