Dr. Jana Baldus

Associate Fellow

Dr. Jana Baldus is Associate Fellow at the Research Depart­ment Inter­national Security. Her research focuses on nuclear disarmament and arms control, processes of dealing with nuclear legacies and issues of nuclear (in)justice as well as the nexus between new techno­logies and nuclear weapons.

CV

| seit 2024
Associate Fellow at PRIF

| 2024
Dr phil (Political Science) at Goethe University Frankfurt/M.

| 2023
Visiting Researcher at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS), Middlebury Institute for International Studies in Monterey, USA (March-April)

| 20192024
Doctoral Researcher at PRIF

| 2018
Research Assistant at PRIF, Research Network External Democracy Promotion (EDP)

| 2015–2018
Student Assistant at PRIF, Research Network External Democracy Promotion (EDP)

| 2017
Study abroad at Universidad Complutense de Madrid

| 2015–2018
Master of Arts in International Studies/Peace and Conflict Research at University of Frankfurt/M.

| 2012–2014
Student Assistant at the Department of International Relations and Sustainable Development, University of Münster

| 2013
Study abroad at King’s College London (Department of War Studies)

| 2011–2015
Bachelor of Arts in Political Sciences and Economics at University of Münster

Publications

  • Scheitern mit Ansage
    | 2022
    Baldus, Jana; Meier, Oliver (2022): Scheitern mit Ansage, Vereinte Nationen, 2022: 6, 266–271. DOI: 10.35998/VN-2022-0030
  • The global nuclear order and the crisis of the nuclear non-proliferation regime: Taking stock and moving forward
    | 2022
    Baldus, Jana; Müller, Harald; Wunderlich, Carmen (2022): The global nuclear order and the crisis of the nuclear non-proliferation regime: Taking stock and moving forward, Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung Special Issue “Crisis of Arms Control”. DOI: 10.1007/s42597-021-00066-0
  • Shrinking Spaces. Eine Herausforderung der internationalen Demokratie- und Zivilgesellschaftsförderung
    | 2018
    Baldus, Jana; Poppe, Annika Elena; Wolff, Jonas (2018): Shrinking Spaces. Eine Herausforderung der internationalen Demokratie- und Zivilgesellschaftsförderung, Afrika Süd, 47: 5.
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  • Doomsday Machines? Nukes, Nuclear Verification, and Artificial Intelligence
    | 2022
    Baldus, Jana (2022): Doomsday Machines? Nukes, Nuclear Verification, and Artificial Intelligence, in: Niklas Schörnig and Thomas Reinhold (eds), Armament, Arms Control and Artificial Intelligence. Studies in Peace and Security, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 101-116. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-11043-6_8
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    ISBN: 978-3-031-11042-9
  • ‚High Time‘ für nukleare Abrüstung?
    | 2019
    Baldus, Jana (2019): ‚High Time‘ für nukleare Abrüstung?, in: Christian, Ben/Coni-Zimmer, Melanie (eds), Deutschland im UN-Sicherheitsrat 2019–2020. Eine Halbzeitbilanz, Frankfurt/M, 29–31.

  • Taking responsibility: How NPT members can support justice for victims of nuclear weapons – and through this, the NPT
    | 2024
    Baldus, Jana; Fehl, Caroline (2024): Taking responsibility: How NPT members can support justice for victims of nuclear weapons – and through this, the NPT, European Leadership Network.
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  • Die rüstungskontrollpolitischen Initiativen Deutschlands – eine Erfolgsgeschichte?
    | 2023
    Lurz, Alexander; Baldus, Jana; Daase, Christopher; Ferl, Anna-Katharina; Jakob, Una; Lambach, Daniel; Lehmann, Tobias; Perras, Clara; Hoffberger-Pippan, Elisabeth; Reinhold, Thomas; Schmidt, Hans-Joachim; Schörnig, Niklas; Tkocz, Maximilian; Wisotzki, Simone (2023): Die rüstungskontrollpolitischen Initiativen Deutschlands – eine Erfolgsgeschichte?, Greenpeace-Studie.
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  • Rüstungsdynamiken: Abrüsten statt Wettrüsten
    | 2022
    Baldus, Jana; Brzoska, Michael; Fehl, Caroline; Hach, Sascha; Kütt, Moritz; Vieluf, Maren; Wunderlich, Carmen; Thies, Tim (2022): Rüstungsdynamiken: Abrüsten statt Wettrüsten, in: Bonn International Center for Conversion (BICC)/Leibniz-Institut Hessische Stiftung Friedens- und Konfliktforschung (HSFK)/Institut für Friedensforschung und Sicherheitspolitik an der Universität Hamburg (IFSH)/Institut für Entwicklung und Frieden (INEF) (eds), Friedensgutachten 2022, Bielefeld: transcript Verlag, 91-109.
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  • NPT 2022: An Opportunity to Advance Nuclear Justice
    | 2022
    Baldus, Jana; Fehl, Caroline; Hach, Sascha (2022): NPT 2022: An Opportunity to Advance Nuclear Justice, Global Policy.
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  • "High Alert" in Europa: Risiken der beabsichtigten oder unbeabsichtigten nuklearen Eskalation des Krieges
    | 2022
    Baldus, Jana (2022): "High Alert" in Europa: Risiken der beabsichtigten oder unbeabsichtigten nuklearen Eskalation des Krieges, PRIF Blog.
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  • Beyond the Ban
    | 2021
    Baldus, Jana; Fehl, Caroline; Hach, Sascha (2021): Beyond the Ban. A Global Agenda for Nuclear Justice, PRIF Report, 4, Frankfurt/M.
  • The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – a Winter’s Tale
    | 2021
    Baldus, Jana (2021): The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons – a Winter’s Tale, PRIF Blog.
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  • Der Atomwaffenverbotsvertrag – ein Wintermärchen
    | 2021
    Baldus, Jana (2021): Der Atomwaffenverbotsvertrag – ein Wintermärchen, PRIF Blog.
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  • Kein Grund zum Feiern: 75 Jahre Atomwaffentests
    | 2020
    Baldus, Jana (2020): Kein Grund zum Feiern: 75 Jahre Atomwaffentests, PRIF Blog.
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  • Das Ende des INF-Vertrags: Katerstimmung in Europa
    | 2019
    Baldus, Jana (2019): Das Ende des INF-Vertrags: Katerstimmung in Europa, PRIF Blog.
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  • Preventing Civic Space Restrictions
    | 2019
    Baldus, Jana; Berger-Kern, Nora; Hetz, Fabian; Poppe, Annika Elena; Wolff, Jonas (2019): Preventing Civic Space Restrictions. An Exploratory Study of Successful Resistance Against NGO Laws, PRIF Report, 1, Frankfurt/M.
  • ‚High Time‘ für nukleare Abrüstung?
    | 2019
    Baldus, Jana (2019): ‚High Time‘ für nukleare Abrüstung?, PRIF BLOG.
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  • An Overview of Global Initiatives on Countering Closing Space for Civil Society
    | 2017
    Baldus, Jana; Poppe, Annika Elena; Wolff, Jonas (2017): An Overview of Global Initiatives on Countering Closing Space for Civil Society, Washington, D.C.: CSIS Human Rights Initiative.
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Further Activities

| since 2024
Member of the Global Nuclear Order Working Group of the British International Studies Association (BISA); 
Member of the Working Group “Arms Dynamics and Disarmament”, German Association for Peace and Conflict Studies (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung e.V. – AfK)

| 2021–2022
Representative in the Leibniz PhD Network

| 2019-2021
Co-speaker of PRIF's PhD colloquium

  • The world could no longer remain complacent: the construction of the Humanitarian Initiative and resistance to the nuclear order, Paper presented at the British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference 2024, June 5-7, Birmingham, UK.
  • How to justify inaction: Dealing with nuclear legacies and injustices, Paper presented at the British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference 2024, June 5-7, Birmingham, UK.
  • The global nuclear order divided: polarisation and social cohesion within the nuclear nonproliferation regimePaper presented at the British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference 2023, Panel: “Third Nuclear Age”, June 21–23, 2023, Glasgow, UK.
  • Apocalyptic imaginaries: comparing visions of the future in discourses of nuclear weapons and autonomous weapons systemsPaper presented together with Anna-Katharina Ferl at the British International Studies Association (BISA) Annual Conference 2023, Panel: “Emerging technology and international security”, June 21–23, 2023, Glasgow, UK.
  • Nuclear Justice: A Framework for Analysis, Paper presented together with Caroline Fehl and Sascha Hach at the ISA Annual Convention 2023, Panel: “Nuclear (in)justice: New perspectives on addressing past harm caused by nuclear weapons”, March 15–18, 2023, Montreal, Canada.

  • Side event at the Preparatory Committee for the 11th NPT Review Conference: “AI and Nuclear Decision-Making“, July 22, 2024, United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
  • Expert in the German delegation to the 10th NPT Review Conference, August 1–26, 2022, New York, USA
  • Visit/observation period at the Federal Foreign Office, OR09 Disarmament, Arms Control, Non-Proliferation, Department for International Order, United Nations and Arms Control, January 1 – February 28, 2020, Berlin