Dr Annette Schaper
Senior Research Fellow
RD: Policies for Security Governance of States
e-Mail: schaperNoeSPAM@ thanx-for-not-spamming! hsfk.de
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Biography
| Studies of Physics and Mathematics at the University of Düsseldorf; organisation of seminar on topics of civilian-military ambivalence of science |
1987 | PhD at the Institute of Applied Physics of the University of Düsseldorf with an experimental thesis in solid state physics |
1987 | Fellowship of the Volkswagen Foundation on a project on "Arms control on the level of research and development. The example of inertial confinement fusion" at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Technical University of Darmstadt |
1988 | Foundation of the Interdisciplinary Working Group Science, Technology and Security Policy at the Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Technical University of Darmstadt |
since 1992 | Senior Research Fellow at PRIF |
Further Affiliations and Activities
1994 - 1996 | Scientific expert in the German CD delegation during the CTBT-negotiations (topics: the scope of a CTBT, transparency, test preparations) |
1995 | Member of the German delegation during the NPT review and extension conference |
1999 | Member of the Expert Commission on the conversion of the Garching research reactor organized by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
seit 1999 | Member of the Board of Directors of the Educational Foundation for Nuclear Science which publishes the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |
- Member of the Vereinigung Deutscher Wissenschaftler (VDW, German Pugwash Group)
- Member of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (DPG, German Physics Association) and its working group on the CTBT
- Member of the Naturwissenschaftler-Initiative Verantwortung für den Frieden (Scientists initiative for the responsibility for the peace)
- Member of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Working Group of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (DGAP, German Association for Foreign Policy)
- Member of the Forschungsverbund Naturwissenschaft, Abrüstung und internationale Sicherheit (FONAS, Research Association on Science, Disarmament, and International Security)
Projects
- Transparency as a Prerequisite of Arms Control
- To Save Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
- Antinomies of Democratic Arms Control in the 1990s
- The Transformation of Arms Control. Norm Dynamics and Notions of Justice in Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-proliferation
- Steps Towards a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
- Technology and Politics of Nuclear Disarmament, Non-proliferation, and Arms Control
Selected Publications
- Transparency for a nuclear weapon free world Concepts for a register of nuclear weapons and fissile material (in German), HSFK-Reports, Nr. 10, 2009
- Verification of Disarmament of Nuclear Material (in German), HSFK-Reports, Nr. 3, 2009
- Torn apart: nuclear secrecy and openness in democratic nuclear-weapon states, 2008
- Germany, 2008
- Läuten neue Nuklearsprengköpfe das Ende der Abrüstung ein?, 2008
- Nuclear Weapons Research and Modernization Without Nuclear Testing The CTBT in danger?, PRIF Reports, 77, 2006
- The Technical Challenges of Nuclear and Radiological Terrorism, 2006
- A never ending story? Iran and North Korea’s nuclear programmes (in German), 2006
- Nuklearterrorismus als neue Herausforderung an die Rüstungskontrolle, 2005
- Transparency and Secrecy in Nuclear Weapons Study of the Weapons of Mass Destruction, 2005
- The non-proliferation regime in a crisis? North Korea, Iran and the United States (in German), 2005
- US Nuclear Policy after the Cold War, PRIF Reports, No. 69, 2004
- Looking for a Demarcation between Nuclear Transparency and Nuclear Secrecy, PRIF Reports, No. 68, 2004
- The EU’s Efforts to Assist in the Control of Weapons-Useable Materials, 2004
- Nukleare Rüstungskontrolle und Abrüstung - Möglichkeiten und Grenzen in der Politikberatung, 2003
- The state of nuclear materials, protection, controls, and accounting in the U.S., Russia, and Europe Proceedings of the XIV International Amaldi Conference on Problems of Global Security, 2003
- EU cooperative threat reduction activities in Russia, 2003
- Die Aufwertung von Kernwaffen durch die Bush-Administration, 2003
- Nuklearterrorismus Neue Bedrohungsszenarien, 2003
- US Nuclear Policy after the Cold War (in German), HSFK-Reports, Nr. 3, 2003
Consulting on
- Nuclear Disarmament and Arms Control