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Ulrich Kühn, M.A., M.P.S.

Researcher

Research interest
Arms control, NATO-Russia cooperation, politico-military dimension of the OSCE

Background
Ulrich Kühn studied History at the Rheinische-Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn. From 2007 to 2008 he worked as a Research Assistant at the Waitangi Tribunal Unit/Ministry of Justice, New Zealand. 2008 to 2009 he completed the postgradual Master’s Programme “Master of Peace and Security Policy Studies” at IFSH. From 2010 to 2011 he worked as an external advisor on nuclear arms control to the Division for Disarmament, Arms Control and Non-Proliferation at the Federal Foreign Office of Germany (Ref. 240) in Berlin. In 2011 he was awarded “United Nations Fellow on Disarmament”. He currently works on the conceptualization and implementation of the “Initiative for the Development of a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian Security Community” (IDEAS) in co-operation with the Federal Foreign Office and the OSCE.

Languages
German, English, French, Arabic

Current project
IDEAS: The Initiative for the Development of a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian Security Community

Publications

Ulrich Kühn

Articles

  • (with Michael Brzoska): Vertrag über den Waffenhandel: Staatenkonferenz 2.-27.Juli 2012, in Vereinte Nationen. German Review on the United Nations (60:5), pp. 223–5
  • A weapons of mass destruction-free zone in the Middle East: A pipe dream or a concrete goal?, in IFSH Annual Report 2011, pp. 24–29 Link
  • (with Frank Evers and Wolfgang Zellner): The Initiative for the Development of a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian Security Community, in IFSH Annual Report 2011, pp. 14–17 Link
  • (March 2012): To Fuel Cooperation, in Global Perspectives, Magazine for International Cooperation (International Edition), pp. 21–22
  • Non-Proliferation Through Fuel Cooperation. Viewpoint at nuclearabolition.net Link
  • Generalversammlung: Kernwaffenfreie Zone Nahost, in Vereinte Nationen. German Review on the United Nations (60:1), pp. 28–29
  • Global Zero: Perhaps not in my Lifetime, in International Politics and Society (4-2011), pp. 98-119 Download Document
  • Russlands Vorschläge für eine neue europäische Sicherheitsordnung: Déjà-vu oder Chance zum Dialog?, in Staack, Michael [Ed.]: Auf dem Weg zu einer europäischen Friedens- und Sicherheitsordnung (Schriftenreihe des Wissenschaftlichen Forums für Internationale Sicherheit e.V). Bremen: Edition Temmen, pp. 138-60
  • CFE: Overcoming the Impasse, in Russia in Global Affairs (8:2) Link
  • ДОВСЕ: выход из тупика, в: Россия в глобальной политике (8:2) Link
  • Medvedev’s Proposals for a New European Security
    Order. A Starting Point or the End of the Story?, in Connections, The Quarterly Journal (9:2), pp. 1–16
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  • From Capitol Hill to Istanbul: The Origins of the Current CFE Deadlock (CORE Working Paper; 19). Hamburg: IFSH
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Books and Monographs

  • На пути к евроатлантическому и евразийскому сообществу безопасности.
    От видения к реальности (Составители: Вольфганг Целлнер, Камиль Гран, Ульрих Кюн), Гамбург, Париж, Москва, Варшава, 2012 г.
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  • Towards a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian Security Community. From Vision to Reality (ed. with Wolfgang Zellner, Lukasz Kulesa, Camille Grand et al.), Hamburg, Paris, Moscow, Warsaw 2012, (ISBN 978-3-00-039924-4)
    Link

Presentations

  • “Assessment of the Current Situation”, opening remarks to the brainstorming workshop on “The Future of Conventional Arms Control in Europe”, organized by CORE Hamburg, the Swiss OSCE Task Force, and the Federal Foreign Office, Berlin, 22 March 2013.
  • "The Initiative for the Development of a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian Security Community (IDEAS)", presentation at an informal meeting of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC), Brussels, NATO Headquarters, 18 December 2012.
  • “The Initiative for the Development of a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian Security Community (IDEAS): Report Findings”, presentation at the conference “The OSCE Astana Declaration: Towards a Security Community”, organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan, the OSCE Centre in Astana and the Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies under the President of Kazakhstan (KISI), Almaty, 23 October 2012.
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  • "Political-Military Relations between the West and Russia", intervention at the "Opening Workshop of the Initiative for the Development of a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian Security Community (IDEAS) - Towards a Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian Security Community" organized by the IDEAS-Initiative and the Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Berlin, 20 March 2012
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  • "Conventional Arms Control in Europe: Overcoming the Impasse", presentation at the 18th Partnership for Peace International Research Seminar ("The Indivisibility of Euro-Atlantic Security"), jointly conducted by NATO Defense College Rome and the Austrian Foreign Office, Vienna, 4-5 February 2010
  • "Conventional Arms Control in Europe: Past, Present, Future", presentation at the Workshop "Wege aus der Gewalt: Neue Entwicklungen der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung in Hamburg", jointly conducted by IFSH and ZNF, Hamburg, 12 February 2010
  • "The Politico-Military Dimension of the OSCE: On Top of the Agenda or a Crumbling Foundation?" presentation at the 14th Summer Academy on OSCE, jointly conducted by the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution (ASPR) and the Diplomatic Academy Vienna, under the auspices of the OSCE, Stadtschlaining, 23 June 2010

Statements/Opinions

  • In the Middle of Nowhere – The OSCE’s Astana
    Summit, IFSH, Aktuelle Stellungnahmen, December 2010
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  • Politico-military security: a dimension in transition; Commentary to the OSCE's Review Conference, Vienna, 18-26 October 2010
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