Ph.D. candidate

Areas of research
Arms control, NATO-Russia cooperation, politico-military dimension of the OSCE

Contact
CORE
Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy
Beim Schlump 83
20144 Hamburg
Phone: (+49) 40-866077-42

Curriculum vitae
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.

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

Languages
German, English, French, Arabic

Selected Publications

• Politico-military security: a dimension in transition; Commentary to the OSCE's Review Conference, Vienna, 18-26 October 2010. (Link)
• ДОВСЕ: выход из тупика, в: Россия в глобальной политике, 8 (2). Link
• CFE: Overcoming the Impasse, in: Russia in Global Affairs, 8 (2). Link
• Medvedev’s Proposals for a New European Security Order. A Starting Point or the End of the Story?. Connections, The Quarterly Journal, 9 (2), pp. 1–16. Link
• From Capitol Hill to Istanbul: The Origins of the Current CFE Deadlock, Hamburg 2009 (CORE Working Paper 19). Download

Selected presentations

• "The Politico-Military Dimension of the OSCE: On Top of the Agenda or a Crumbling Foundation?" Presentation at the 14th Summer Academy on OSCE, organized by the Austrian Study Center for Peace and Conflict Resolution and the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna under the auspices of the OSCE, Stadtschlaining, 23 June 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", hosted by IFSH/ZNF, Hamburg, 12 February 2010.
• "Conventional Arms Control in Europe: Overcoming the Impasse", presentation at the 18th Partnership for Peace International Research Seminar ("The Indivisibility of Euro-Atlantic Security"), hosted by NATO Defense College Rome and the Austrian MfA, Vienna, 4-5 February 2010.