Panel One: New Perspectives on Arms Control and Disarmament | #UKPONI2021

Panel One: New perspectives on Arms Control and Disarmament

Chair: Dr Matthew Harries, Senior Research Fellow, RUSI
Speakers: Lydia Wachs, Research Assistant, SWP Berlin (The German Institute for International and Security Affairs): Revival of the Dead Hand? Russian Political and Military Elite’s Views on AI and Autonomy in Conventional and Nuclear Forces
Claudia Westwood, Network Liaison Officer, European Leadership Network:
The UK’s Integrated Review: Implications for Transparency Measures in Multilateral Arms Control Forums
Ekaterina Lapanovich, PhD Candidate Department of Theory and History of
International Relations, Ural Federal University. The ‘Hijacked’ Initiative: from the Humanitarian Initiative to the Ban Treaty…and Back
Again?

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