Hanna Notte

Director, Eurasia Nonproliferation Program

Hanna Notte

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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.

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