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The Purposes of Nuclear Arms Control: Achievements and Failures
2 July 2024 - 8 h 00 min - 17 h 00 min
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 cooperative arms control regimes cannot stop determined aggressors. Against this background, the block course addresses the questions which objectives states can pursue through nuclear arms control, which purpose can nuclear arms control serve in an era of strategic rivalry, and which hopes connected to arms control have been disappointed in the past.