In our fifth episode, we discuss with Professor Sarah Nouwen, who is the Co-Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy, what are the legal effects of the International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant issued against Putin.

Our Guest Bio:
Sarah Nouwen is the Co-Director of the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute (EUI), in Florence, Italy. Since September 2020, she has held the position of Professor of Public International Law at the EUI. She is currently on leave from the University of Cambridge, where she is a Professor in Public International Law and a Fellow of Pembroke College and was for many years a Co-Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. Professor Nouwen also assumes the role of Editor-in-Chief for the prestigious European Journal of International Law.

In our fourth episode, we discuss with Professor Alexander Stubb, former Prime Minister of Finland, about the impact of Finland and Sweden joining NATO.

Our Guest Bio:
Alexander Stubb is currently the Director of the School of Transnational Governance at the European University Institute, in Florence, Italy. He was the Prime Minister of Finland, between 2014-2015. Professor Stubb was also a Member of the European Parliament (from 2004 to 2008) and of the Finish national parliament (2011-2017). In addition, he was until recently the Vice President of the European Investment Bank (EIB) from 2017 to 2020.

In our third episode, we discuss with Dr. Daniel Hamilton, a Senior non-resident Fellow at the Brookings Institution’s Center on the United States and Europe, how effective are sanctions against Russia.

In our second episode, we discuss with Francesca Giovannini, the Executive Director of the Project on Managing the Atom at the Harvard Kennedy School, how likely is the use of nuclear weapons by Russia in Ukraine.

Related Resources 

The Timing of Peace Initiatives: Hurting Stalemates and Ripe Moments (William Zartman), The Global Review of Ethnopolitics, 1 (1) September 2001, pp. 8-18

Memorandum of Security Assurances in connection with the Republic of Belarus Accession to the NPT. Budapest, 5 December 1994, United Nations Treaty Collection, Volume 2866, I-50069 

Constitution of the Republic of Belarus, with alterations and amendments adopted on 24 November 1996 and 17 October 2004. 

Russian nuclear weapons, 2022 (Hans M. Kristensen and Matt Korda), Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, 25 February 2022 

Let’s curb loose talk of using lower-yield nuclear weapons (Joe Cirincione), Responsible Statecraft, 23 March 2022 

The nuclear taboo: The United States and the normative basis of nuclear non-use (Nina Tannenwald), International organization, 53 (3), 1999

In our first episode, we discuss with Mariana Budjeryn, a Research Associate at Harvard Kennedy School, the history and current challenges of the Russia-Ukraine crisis.

Mariana Budjeryn is a Research Associate with the Project on Managing the Atom (MTA) at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. Formerly, she held appointments as a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at MTA, a fellow at Harvard Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, and as a visiting professor at Tufts University and Peace Research Institute Frankfurt. Mariana’s research focuses on the international non-proliferation regime, arms control, and post-Soviet nuclear history. Her analytical contributions appeared in The Nonproliferation Review, Harvard International Review, World Affairs Journal, Arms Control Today, The Washington Post, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, and in the publications of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars where she is a Global Fellow. Mariana’s book 'Inheriting the Bomb: Soviet Collapse and Nuclear Disarmament of Ukraine' is forthcoming in 2022 with Johns Hopkins University Press. She holds a PhD in Political Science, an MA in International Relations from Central European University (formerly) in Budapest, Hungary, and a BA in Political Science from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy in Ukraine.