The virtual seminar will be held from 12:30 to 2 pm (E.T).
Regimes for the control of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) have been seen as important elements in the global order. This order is currently in transition, however, with possibly far reaching implications for WMD-related agreements. In this seminar, Carmen Wunderlich will outline four broad yet interlinked approaches to arms control and disarmament and consider how these have been applied to chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons in the past and how these measures could be applied in the future. It is based on the report “WMD Compliance and Enforcement in a Changing Global Context” that she co-authored with Harald Müller and Una Jakob (UNIDIR, 2021).
About the speaker: Carmen Wunderlich is Assistant Professor in international relations and development policy at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, and Associated Researcher at the Peace Research Center Prague. Previously, she was with the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Her research focuses on global norm dynamics and practices of contestation with a specific focus on issues related to the control of weapons of mass destruction and nuclear disarmament. She is co-editor of Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control (University of Georgia Press, 2013). Among her most recent publications are “Rogue States” as Norm Entrepreneurs: Black Sheep or Sheep in Wolves’ Clothing? (Springer Press, 2020) and “Nuclear Disarmament without the Nuclear-Weapon States: The Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty” (Daedalus, 2020).