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Unit 14European Union Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament PoliciesChapter 6: References and further readings
Chapter 6

References and further readings

References

Álvarez-Verdugo, M. 2006. “Mixing Tools against Proliferation: The EU’s Strategy for Dealing with Weapons of Mass Destruction”, in: European Foreign Affairs Review 11 (3): 417–38.

Arslanian, F. 2023. “The impact of economic sanctions on nuclear non-proliferation: The case of Iran (2005-15)”, in: International Spectator 58 (4): 16–35.

Bailey, M. A., Strezhnev, A., & Voeten, E. (2017). Estimating dynamic state preferences from United Nations voting data. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 61(2), 430–456. https://doi.org/10.1177/0022002715595700

Blavuokos, S. /Bourantonis, D./Portela, C. (eds). 2015. The EU and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Palgrave-MacMillan: Basingstoke.

Council of the European Union. 2003. Fight against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction – EU strategy against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, 15708/03, Brussels.

Dee, M. 2012. “Explaining EU Performance in the NPT Review Conferences: Limited Ambitions but Pragmatic Positioning”, in: UNISCI Journal 30.

Dee, M. 2023. “EU Orchestration in the Nuclear Weapons Regime Complex”, in: Politics and Governance 11 (2): 39–48.

Degrand-Guillaud, A. 2009. “Actors and mechanisms of EU coordination at the UN”, in: European Foreign Affairs Review 14: 405-430.

Grip, L. 2009. “The EU Non-Proliferation Clause: A Preliminary Assessment”, SIPRI Background Paper, Solna: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.

Grip, L. 2011. “Mapping the European Union’s Institutional Actors related to WMD Non-proliferation”, Non-proliferation Paper no. 1, Stockholm: SIPRI.

Kienzle, B. 2012. “Between Human Rights and Non-proliferation: Norm Competition in the EU’s Iran Policy”, in: UNISCI Journal 30.

Kienzle, B. 2013. “A European Contribution to Non-Proliferation? The EU WMD Strategy at Ten”, in: International Affairs 89 (5): 1143–59.

Kienzle, B./Vestergaard, C. 2013. “The Non-Proliferation Regimes”, in: Jørgensen, K.E./Laatikainen, K.V. (eds) Routledge Handbook on the European Union and International Institutions: Performance, Policy, Power. Abingdon: Routledge, 371–88.

Meier, O. 2012. “European Efforts to Control the Spread of Enrichment and Reprocessing Technologies”, UNISCI Discussion Papers 30.

Müller, H./Van Dassen, L. 1997. “From cacophony to Joint Action: Successes and shortcomings of European nuclear non-proliferation policy”, in: Holland, M. (ed.) Common Foreign and Security Policy: The Record and Reforms, London: Pinter, 52–72.

Müller, H. 2007. “Europe and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction”, in: Foradori, P./Rosa, P./Scartezzini, R. (eds) Managing a Multilevel Foreign Policy: The EU in International Affairs. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 181–200.

Müller, H. 2011. “The European Union and Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament”, in: Raghavan, V.R. (ed.) Nuclear Disarmament: India-EU Perspectives. New Delhi: Vij Books India, 27–49.

Onderco, M./Portela, C. 2023. “External drivers of EU differentiated cooperation: How change in the nuclear non-proliferation regime affects member states alignment”, in: Contemporary Security Policy 44 (1): 150–175.

Portela, C. 2003. “The role of the EU in the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: The way to Thessaloniki and beyond”, Research Report n.65, Hessische Stiftung für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung: Frankfurt/Main.

Portela, C. 2015. “The EU’s evolving responses to nuclear proliferation crises”, Non-Proliferation Papers no. 46, SIPRI: Stockholm.

Portela, C. 2021. “The EU’s arms control challenge: Bridging nuclear divides”, Chaillot Paper 166, EUISS: Paris.

Portela, C./Kienzle, B. 2015. “European Union non-proliferation policies before and after the 2003 strategy: Continuity and change”, in: Blavuokos, S./Bourantonis, D./Portela, C. (eds). 2015. The EU and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, Palgrave-MacMillan: Basingstoke.

Portela, C. /Jeantil, M. 2024. “The EU’s use of sanctions in nuclear non-proliferation and arms control”, in: Bekaj, A./Wallenstein, P. (eds) Sanctions for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation, Routledge.

Romanyshyn, I. 2015. “Explaining EU Effectiveness in Multilateral Institutions: The Case of the Arms Trade Treaty Negotiations”, in: Journal of Common Market Studies 53 (4): 875–92.

Romanyshyn, I. 2018. “The EU in multilateral arms negotiations: shaping the process or outcome?”, in: Journal of European Integration 41 (5): 675–92.

Further reading and information

Further reading:

Bauer, S.; Bromley, M. 2016: The dual-use export control policy review. Balancing security, trade and academic freedom in a changing world, EU Non-Proliferation Consortium, Non-Proliferation Papers, no. 48.

Blavoukos, S.; Bourantonis, D., Portela, C. (eds.) 2015: The EU and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. Strategies, Policies, Actions, Palgrave Macmillan.

Cronberg, T. 2016: The great balancing act. EU policy choices during the implementation of the Iran deal, EU Non-Proliferation Consortium, Non-Proliferation Papers, no. 50.

Council of the European Union 2003: EU strategy against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, 15708/03.

Council of the European Union 2003: Fight against the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction - Mainstreaming non-proliferation policies into the EU’s wider relations with third countries, 14997/03.

Council of the European Union 2018: Council Conclusions on the Adoption of an EU Strategy Against Illicit Firearms, Small Arms & Light Weapons & Their Ammunition, 13581/18.

Duquet, N. 2019: The 2018 EU SALW Strategy: Towards an Integrated and Comprehensive Approach, EU Non-Proliferation Consortium, Non-Proliferation Papers, no. 62.

European Union 2016: Shared Vision, Common Action: A Stronger Europe. A Global Strategy for the European Union’s Foreign And Security Policy.

Grip, L. 2014: The European Union’s weapons of mass destruction non-proliferation clause. A 10-year assessment, EU Non-Proliferation Consortium, Non-Proliferation Papers, no. 40.

Grip, L. 2011: Mapping the European Union’s institutional actors related to WMD non-proliferation, EU Non-Proliferation Consortium, Non-Proliferation Papers, no. 1.

Kienzle, B. 2024: An Overstrained Actor? The European Union and the Challenges of Nuclear Non-proliferation and Arms Control. In: EU Foreign Policy in a Fragmenting International Order. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland: 233-261.

Kulesa, Ł. 2020: The Crisis of Nuclear Arms Control and its Impact on European Security, EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium, Non-Proliferation Papers, no. 66.

Lundin, L. E. 2017: The European Union and Weapons of Mass Destruction: A Follow-On to the Global Strategy?, EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium, Non-Proliferation Papers, no. 58.

Portela, C. 2021: The EU’s Arms Control Challenge. Bridging nuclear divides, European Union Institute for Security Studies (EUISS), Chaillot Paper 166.

Further Information about the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) and EU-Initiatives on Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation:

CFSP explained on the Website of the European Commission, “What we do”: https://fpi.ec.europa.eu/what-we-do/common-foreign-and-security-policy_en (last accessed 17.02.2025)

European Union External Action on Disarmament, Non-Proliferation and Arms export control: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/disarmament-non-proliferation-and-arms-export-control-0_en (last accessed 17.02.2025)

European Union External Action on “The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)”: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/treaty-non-proliferation-nuclear-weapons-npt_en (last accessed 17.02.2025)

Opening Statement of the Delegation of the European Union to the UN and other international organisations in Geneva on the Conference on Disarmament: https://www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/conference-disarmament-eu-opening-statement_en (last accessed 17.02.2025)