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— INSIGHTS

Policy Briefs

As part of their ACONA experience, Fellows collaborate across the Cohort on an international research project, culminating in a co-authored policy brief on a pressing arms control question.

23 POLICY BRIEFS PUBLISHED SINCE 2021

2026

Negotiation Pathways and Proposed Language for Governing the AI–NC3 Nexus

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Alice Saltini, Alina Hrytsenko, Fei Su

Leveraging Nuclear Disarmament Verification for Diplomatic Breakthrough in Multilateral Disarmament

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Kudakwashe Mapako, Ali Alkis, Natalia Zhurina

Strategic stability and arms control in a tripolar nuclear world

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Jørn Wichne Pedersen, Maria del Carmen Corte, Fereshteh Ehsani, Kirill Shamiev

The Impact of AUKUS and Regional Stability of Asia

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Thorvardur Thorsson, Sidra Rehman, Chenghao Sun, James To

2025

Enhancing and Expanding Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones (NWFZs)

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Andrej Stefanovic, Jorge Lopez, Peter Sylva, Yasmin Hamdy

The Iran-Israel Standoff: Deterrence Breakdown and Nuclear Escalation

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Tim Bettis, Nan Hao, Deniz Iskendarova, Océane Van Geluwe

Reviving Strategic Stability: How the P5’s Interests Shape Options for Arms Control Engagement

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Qiyang Niu, James Gulliksen, Dariya Pavlova, Aleksandra Zubenko

The Impact of Long-Range Missile Deployments on Regional Security Dynamics and Strategic Stability

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Artem Lomakin, Austin Wright

2024

Harnessing Middle Powers to Restart Multilateral Negotiations and Decrease Nuclear Tensions on the Korean Peninsula

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Maureen Ahmed, Rut Einarsdóttir, Henry Kim, Milana Ozerina

Success Beyond Final Documents: Strategic Recommendations for the 2026 NPT Review Conference

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Ian Fleming Zhou, Valeriia Hesse, Anna-Elisabeth Schmitz, Karina Touzinsky

One Year After Jake Sullivan's ACA Speech: The White House Arms Control Initiative through Harvard's Negotiation Lens

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Vanda Czifra, Jeremy Faust, Kseniia Pirnavskaia, Loïc Simonet

AI in nuclear command and control: Prospects for an international agreement to keep a human in the loop

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Haleema Saadia, Tynchtykbek Israiilov, Ekaterina Mikhalevich, Jonas Sandbrink

2023

Focus on the Problem, not the Treaty: Using Principled Negotiation to Establish Common Ground Between Critics & Proponents of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

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Esson Anzaku, Ekaterina Lapanovich, Laura Lepsy, Alain Ponce Blancas

Building Information Resilience to Reinforce Arms Control

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Kate Zander, Mayra Ameneiros, Ance Baura, Tomáš Nagy

AI and Atoms: How AI is Revolutionizing Nuclear Material Production

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Jingjie He, Nikita Degtyarev

Perceptions of China, Russia, and the United States of the Opportunities and Limitations of Nuclear Talks

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Katia Derbilova, Thomas MacDonald, Tetiana Melnyk, Helen Inga von Ernst

2022

NPNW & NPT - Japan as a Bridge-Builder

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Dominik P. Jankowski, Tianjiao Jiang, Marion Messmer, Gleb Toropchin

Options for Mutual Gains in Arms Control

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Snaefridur Grimsdottir, Jordan Hibbs, Sayaka Shingu, Anna Wagner

Delivering Stability through Safeguards - Two Possible Paths for the IAEA's Relationship with Iran

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Laura Brisbane, Elena Gai, Matthew Schleupner, Ali Rached

DPRK Policy in the Context of the Crisis in Ukraine

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Veronika Bedenko, Roman Kalinin, Jessica J. Lee, Yue Yuan

2021

Reassessing Europe's Nuclear Order: Perspectives for a Nuclear Free Zone

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Amina Afzal, Alexander Graef, Marianne Fisher, Oleg Krivolapov

Does One Size Fit All? How a P5 Interaction Could Reduce Nuclear Risks

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Iskander Akylbayev, Logan Brandt, Brynja Huld Óskarsdóttir, Astan Tugov

A Shared Road to Zero? Towards a Common Language of Nuclear Diplomacy

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Álfrún Perla Baldursdóttir, Jessica Bufford, María Garzón Maceda, Maria Roskoshnaya

External Publications

Some Fellows' research has also been published in external outlets, including journals, think tank platforms, and policy magazines.

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