Hanna Notte

Director, Eurasia Nonproliferation Program

[email protected]
Berlin, Germany

Areas of Research

• Russia’s foreign and security policy
• Russia’s approaches to arms control and non-proliferation
• Arms control and non-proliferation in the Middle East
• Russia’s defense cooperation with China, DPRK and Iran

Background

Dr. Hanna Notte is the director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, and a senior associate (non-resident) with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She’s also an associate fellow with the Kennan Institute. Her expertise is in Russian foreign policy, the Middle East, and arms control and nonproliferation.

Notte previously worked with the Shaikh Group, a nongovernmental organization focused on informal diplomacy in Middle East conflicts, supporting its engagement with Russia. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting researcher with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Carnegie Moscow Center.

Based in Berlin, her writing has appeared in outlets such as The Atlantic, the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, War on the Rocks, and ZEIT Online, among others. She is the coauthor of Death Dust: The Rise, Demise, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs (Stanford University Press, 2023). Notte is a regular guest on conference panels and podcasts produced by leading U.S. and European think tanks. Her book about Russia’s global foreign policy since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, We Shall Outlast Them: Putin’s Global Campaign to Defeat the West, is forthcoming with W. W. Norton & Company in August 2026.

Education

Dr. Notte holds a doctorate and MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University and a BA in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University.

CNS Work

• What Role Does Russia Have to Play in Hamas’s Invasion of Israel? Q&A with Expert Hanna Notte
  Notte: It’s a big stretch to say Russia would endorse Hamas’s bloody assault and risk outright disruption in relations with Israel and with the Gulf states.
• The Age of Great-Power Distraction
  Great-power distraction invites considerable long-term risk.
• Russia’s Axis of the Sanctioned
  Moscow Is Bringing Washington’s Enemies Together
• The New Authoritarian Axis: Russian Relations with North Korea and Iran
  PODCAST: Assessing the significance of Russia’s increasingly close relationships with Pyongyang and Tehran for U.S. national security.
• How Russia Globalized the War in Ukraine
  The Kremlin’s Pressure-Point Strategy to Undermine the West
• CNS Welcomes Dr. Hanna Notte as Director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program
  Dr. Notte transitions to CNS from the VCDNP, where she has worked as a Senior Research Associate since summer 2021.
• The West Cannot Cure Russia’s Nuclear Fever
  Short of curing the fever, the United States and Europe can still take steps to lower the temperature.
• The evolution of Russia’s relations with the West: A conversation with Hanna Notte
  Dr. Hanna Notte gave an interview on the evolution of Russia’s foreign policy and Russia’s war against Ukraine to civilnet.am, an Armenian online television and media platform.
• Putin’s War with Ukraine: Voices of CNS Experts on the Russian Invasion
  A compendium of CNS expert analysis and commentary on the nuclear ramifications of the war, as well as educational materials for expert and general audience.
• The Perils of Premature Negotiation Over Ukraine
  Peace talks with Russia are pointless unless Putin gives up his ambition to push the U.S. and NATO from Eastern Europe.

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Articles and Activities

• How Ukraine Became a World War
• Russia is weighing the costs and benefits of retaliation
• Containing Global Russia
• Russia’s Dangerous New Friends
• Podcast interview: Russia’s Growing Support for Iran and North Korea
• Is Moscow the Big Winner from War in the Middle East?
• Putin Is Getting What He Wants
• Russia and the Global South
• Russia: A Global Outcast or Still a Desirable Partner?
• What the Israel-Gaza conflict means for Ukraine
• What Role Does Russia Have To Play In Hamas’s Invasion Of Israel? Q&A With Expert Hanna Notte
• US-Russian Relations Can Still Get Worse
• Challenges and Prospects for Further U.S.-Russian Nuclear Arms Control
• Interview: Hanna Notte on Russia in the Middle East After Ukraine
• Dr. Hanna Notte speaks at Lennart Meri Conference in Tallinn
• Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine – The Iran Nuclear Price Tag