Dr. Jonas Schneider
International Security Deputy Head of Research Division
Areas of Expertise
FocusNonproliferation policies; Nuclear disarmament; Nuclear deterrence; Nuclear export controls
Short Curriculum vitae
Since 2025 Deputy Head of the International Security Research Division
2021-2025 Head of the project Strategic Threat Analysis and Nuclear (Dis-)Order (STAND)
Since 2021 Associate in the project Strategic Threat Analysis and Nuclear (Dis-)Order (STAND)
Since 2020 Associate in the research group International Security
2017-2020 Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
2016-2017 Transatlantic Fellow at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)
2015-2016 Transatlantic Fellow at the Center for Security Studies, ETH Zurich
2015 PhD, University of Kiel
2011-2014 Research Associate at the Institute for Security Policy at the University of Kiel
SWP Publications
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Significant and Sound: US Medium-Range Missiles in Germany
SWP Comment 2024/C 30, 29.07.2024, 4 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C30
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The Biden administration’s official strategy on nuclear arms control: Just first steps, or the whole story?
The US government has offered to hold nuclear arms control talks with Russia and China “without preconditions”. Neither is likely to take up the offer. But the US government may have a different strategy, argue Liviu Horovitz and Jonas Schneider.
Point of View, 13.06.2023 -
After the Review Conference: The NPT Remains Robust
SWP Comment 2022/C 69, 05.12.2022, 4 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2022C69
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Biden’s proposal for a US “sole purpose” nuclear declaratory policy
Consequences for allies in Asia, NATO and Germany
SWP Comment 2021/C 62, 23.12.2021, 8 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2021C62
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Euro-Atlantic Concerns regarding a US »Sole Purpose« Policy
A Review of Twenty-One National Perspectives
Research Division International Security, Working Paper Nr. 4, December 2021doi:10.18449/2021WP13
External publications
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Redesigning Nuclear Arms Control for New Realities
A joint report by Anna Péczeli, Brad Roberts, Jonas Schneider, Adam Thomson, Oliver Thränert, and Heather Williams
In: Policy Perspectives Special Edition, Vol. 9/8, November 2021doi:DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000514336
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Beyond Assurance and Coercion: US Alliances and the Psychology of Nuclear Reversal
in: Security Studies, 29:5, 927-963, 03.02.2021 (online)doi:10.1080/09636412.2020.1859125
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Predicting nuclear weapons proliferation
In: Andreas Wenger, Ursula Jasper, Myriam Dunn Cavelty (eds.), The Politics and Science of Prevision. Governing and Probing the Future. 1st edition, London: Routledge, May 2020. Chapter 12, 19 pages. -
The Study of Leaders in Nuclear Proliferation and How to Reinvigorate It
International Studies Review, Vol. 22 (2020), No. 1, pp. 1-25. -
Nuclear Proliferation and International Stability
in Klaus Larres (ed.), Understanding Global Politics. Actors and Themes (New York: Routledge, 2019), pp. 409-425 -
A Nuclear Deal for Pakistan?
Center for Security Studies/ETH Zurich: CSS Analyses in Security Policy, No. 187, March 2016