Global Nuclear Order annual conference 2025: Rethinking nuclear deterrence in an era of strategic uncertainty
Hosted by the Global Nuclear Order (GNO) Working Group, this year’s virtual annual conference brings together scholars and practitioners to critically examine the evolving role of nuclear deterrence in a rapidly changing global landscape. With panels exploring various approaches to deterrence, the impact of emerging technologies, regional dynamics, and great power competition, the conference offers a timely forum for rethinking the political, ethical, and strategic dimensions of deterrence today.
Programme
09:00-09:10: Introduction
GNO Convenors
09:10-10:40: Panel 1
Chair: TBC
Strategic Conventional Counter Force (SCCF) in Nuclear Deterrence Studies
Daniel Plesch (SOAS University of London)
Designing Uncertainty: Crisis Gaming, Nuclear Deterrence History, and Human-Technology Interaction in Strategic Decision-Making
Timothy Peacock (University of Glasgow)
Impact of Emerging and Disruptive Technologies and Strategic Conventional Weapons on Nuclear Deterrence
Tom Sauer (University of Antwerp)
Sailing through the Sightless Sense: The Danger of Neglecting Human- Machine Relations in the New Nuclear Age
Ariel (Phantitra) Phuphaphantakarn (Middlebury Institute of International Studies)
10:40-11:00: Break
11:00-12:30: Panel 2
Chair: TBC
Out of the Shadows: The Nuclear Taboo and its (Un)Intended Effects in the Light of Sweden's Turn to NATO
Sandra Bandemer (Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich) and Lena Wittenfeld (Bielefeld University)
Nuclear Deterrence and Maritime Strategy in an Era of Strategic Uncertainty: Russian Navy in the Eastern Mediterranean
Meysune Yaşar (University of Exeter)
From de Gaulle to Macron: Nuclear Autonomy and the Future of European Deterrence
Tijana Bauer
From Trump to Ukraine: The Discursive Adaptation of Extended Nuclear Deterrence in a Changing European Security Landscape
Konstantin Schendzielorz (University of St. Gallen)
The Future of Extended Nuclear Deterrence in Central and Eastern Europe: Challenges Amid Strategic Uncertainty
Ioana Monica Dorhoi
12:30-1pm: Lunch break
1:00-2:30pm : Panel 3
Chair: TBC
Experimental Wargaming and Synthetic Data Generation in Nuclear Research
Peter Rautenbach (University of Leicester)
MAD World: Antinomies of Nuclear Reason in Deterrence Theory
Antoine Bousquet (Swedish Defence University)
A Global Intellectual History of Krishnaswami Subrahmanyam's Nuclear Strategic Thought
Abhishek Saxena (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence)
Primacy and Revolution: The Unreconciled Contradiction at the Heart of American Nuclear Strategy - and Why Disruptive Tech Demands a Solution
Jack O'Doherty (University of Leicester)
2:30-2:45pm: Break
2:45-4:15pm: Panel 4
Chair/Discussant: TBC
Trump-Putin Withdrawal from the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty: A Geopolitical Consequence
Oko-Otu Chukwuemeka N (University of Buckingham)
The NPT and Three Paths for South Korea’s Nuclear Future under Trump 2.0
Se Young Jang (University of Vienna)
Tripolarity, Resolve and Nuclear Risks
Deye Li (University of Chicago)
4:15-4:30pm: Concluding remarks
(GNO Convenors)
Registration will close two hours before the event begins