The Council of Europe’s treaty on Artificial Intelligence marks a significant achievement in multilateral AI governance. Nonetheless, Mahmoud Javadi suggests that it could foreshadow potential challenges, if not failure, for similar UN efforts
The narratives within the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) require amplification to ensure the Treaty’s success. Mahmoud Javadi examines statements made by TPNW state parties during the 2023 United Nations First Committee
The global significance of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) hinges on its universality. Mahmoud Javadi presents three interconnected strategies — glorification, securitisation, and weaponisation — to move past the challenge of ‘peak universalisation’
Countries of the Global South are the primary advocates of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Mahmoud Javadi argues that the TPNW can help gauge the authenticity, sincerity, and seriousness of major Western and Eastern powers in their geopolitical engagement with these countries
Relations between Iran and Europe are in a pretty poor state. But Mahmoud Javadi argues that there are avenues for improvement through identification of 'shared interests' – and the EU can, and should, play its part
Prior to this, he was an AI Governance Researcher at Erasmus University Rotterdam, on the EU-funded research consortium Reignite Multilateralism via Technology.
He also has experience at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research focused on EU external relations.
Mahmoud has several publications to his name, including the co-authored book The European Union’s Knowledge Economy, published in Farsi by the University of Tehran Press in 2018.
His forthcoming monograph will explore the universalisation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.
He holds a Master of Arts in Transnational Governance from the European University Institute in Florence.
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