Dr. Liviu Horovitz
International Security Associate
Areas of Expertise
- Arms control
- Nato
- Transatlantic relations
- Weapons of mass destruction / proliferation
nuclear deterrence and reassurance; nuclear threats and threat perceptions
Short Curriculum vitae
Since 2025 Head of the project Strategic Threat Analysis and Nuclear (Dis-)Order (STAND)
Since 2021 Associate in the research group International Security in the project Strategic Threat Analysis and Nuclear (Dis-)Order (STAND)
2019-2021 Postdoctoral researcher, Brussels School of Governance, Free University Brussels
2018-2019 Postdoctoral researcher, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
2016-2017 Research fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
2014-2018 PhD, Center for Comparative and International Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
2010-2014 Researcher, Nuclear Policy Working Group, Center for Security Studies Zurich
SWP Publications
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Trump II and US Nuclear Assurances in the Indo-Pacific
Why Australia, Japan, and South Korea Have Other Concerns
SWP Comment 2024/C 36, 21.08.2024, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C36
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Trump II and US Nuclear Assurances to NATO
Policy Options Instead of Alarmism
SWP Comment 2024/C 17, 25.04.2024, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2024C17
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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 -
France’s Nuclear Weapons and Europe
Options for a better coordinated deterrence policy
SWP Comment 2023/C 15, 09.03.2023, 7 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2023C15
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Russia’s Catch-all Nuclear Rhetoric in Its War against Ukraine
A balancing act between deterrence, dissuasion, and compellence strategies
SWP Comment 2022/C 60, 19.10.2022, 4 Pagesdoi:10.18449/2022C60
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Nuclear rhetoric and escalation management in Russia’s war against Ukraine: A Chronology
Working Paper, 19.09.2022doi:10.18449/2022WP08
External publications
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Russia’s Failed Nuclear Coercion Against Ukraine
In: The Washington Quarterly, Volume 46, Issue 3 (2023) -
How Germans Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, Then Probably Start Worrying Again
Commentary, in: War on the Rocks, 09.10.2023 -
Nuclear Signalling in Russia’s War Against Ukraine
In: CDSC, Brussels school of Governance, 23.02.2023 -
The Nuclear Trilemma in Ukraine
in: Internationale Politik Quarterly, 09.11.2022 (online) -
Negotiating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
Origins of the Nuclear Order
1st Edition. London: Routledge, 2016, 260 pages -
Beyond Pessimism: Why the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Will Not Collapse
In: Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 38, 2015, Issue 1-2, pp. 126-158, published online: 24.07.2014