Dr. Robin E. Möser

Researcher

Dr. Robin E. Möser is a Researcher at PRIF's Research Depart­ment Inter­national Security and in the Research Group Science for Nuclear Diplo­macy and the VeSPoTec project His research focuses on nuclear disar­mament and veri­fication issues as well as arms control and non-proli­feration more gene­rally.

Robin Möser
moeser(at)prif.org

CV

| since 2026
Researcher at PRIF's Research Department International Security

| 2025–2026
Asso­ciate Fellow at PRIF

| since 2025
Researcher at Technical Uni­versity of Darmstadt

| 2022–2025
Programme Coor­dinator and Pro­gramme Leader at Uni­versity of Potsdam

| 2016–2021
Research Assis­tant, PhD Student and Lecturer at Leipzig Uni­versity

Projects

Publications

  • The verification of the dismantlement of South Africa’s nuclear weapons programme
    | 2026
    Möser, Robin E.; Stott, Noël; Buys, Andrè (2026): The verification of the dismantlement of South Africa’s nuclear weapons programme. Lessons for future unilateral or multilateral disarmament initiatives, Zeitschrift für Friedens- und Konfliktforschung, published online. DOI: 10.1007/s42597-026-00165-w
  • South Africa’s Disarmament and Its Ramifications: From the NPT to the Treaty of Pelindaba and MTCR Adherence, 1988–1995
    | 2025
    Möser, Robin E. (2025): South Africa’s Disarmament and Its Ramifications: From the NPT to the Treaty of Pelindaba and MTCR Adherence, 1988–1995, Journal of Strategic Studies, 2025: July, 1–25. DOI: 10.1080/01402390.2025.2522276
  • ‘A Fly in the Ointment’: Apartheid South Africa’s Transnational Nuclear Network during the Cold War, 1953–1976
    | 2024
    Möser, Robin E. (2024): ‘A Fly in the Ointment’: Apartheid South Africa’s Transnational Nuclear Network during the Cold War, 1953–1976, Cold War History, 25: 1, 67–87. DOI: 10.1080/14682745.2024.2384355
  • ‘The Major Prize’: Apartheid South Africa’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1988–91
    | 2020
    Möser, Robin E. (2020): ‘The Major Prize’: Apartheid South Africa’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1988–91, The Nonproliferation Review, 26: 5–6, 559–573. DOI: 10.1080/10736700.2019.1696543

  • Soviet Diplomats and Apartheid: South Africa’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
    | 2023
    Möser, Robin E. (2023): Soviet Diplomats and Apartheid: South Africa’s Accession to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in: Saunders, Chris; Fonseca, Helder Adegar; Dallywater, Lena (eds), Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union, and Africa: New Perspectives on the Era of Decolonization, 1950s to 1990s, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 239–258. DOI: 10.1515/9783110787757-012

  • Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme
    | 2024
    Möser, Robin E. (2024): Disarming Apartheid: The End of South Africa's Nuclear Weapons Programme, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. DOI: 10.1017/9781009307062
    ISBN: 9781009307062

  • Disarmament dividend
    | 2025
    Möser, Robin (2025): Disarmament dividend, The new nuclear arms race, The New Internationalist: #559.
    Publication
  • Africa’s disarmament experience holds lessons for a stalled nuclear debate
    | 2025
    Möser, Robin (2025): Africa’s disarmament experience holds lessons for a stalled nuclear debate, The Loop – ECPR’s Political Science Blog.
    Publication

  • Increasing the impact of African civil society in the nuclear field
    | 2024
    Onderco, Michal; Möser, Robin E. (2024): Increasing the impact of African civil society in the nuclear field, PRCP Working Paper: 3, Prague: Peace Research Center Prague.
    Publication

Further Activities

| 2020
Katharina Wind­scheid Prize for outstanding Doc­toral Thesis (Leipzig University)