Articles by Valentina Cassar

May 20, 2025

☢️ Saving arms control in a changing world order

Valentina Cassar

Valentina Cassar examines the motivations for US-Russian diplomacy and arms control in a rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape. What role do these countries' nuclear postures play in sustaining their international primacy? China, certainly, will play a key part, while the outcomes will influence all states in the broader nuclear order

Valentina Cassar

Senior Lecturer, Department of International Relations, University of Malta

Valentina completed a PhD in International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, where she conducted research on the Nuclear Strategic Cultures of the United States and Russia.

She is the Department Contact Point within the EU Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium Network and is an alumnus of the Salzburg Seminars and of the Studies of the United States Institute (SUSI).

Her teaching, research and writing focus on strategic cultures, nuclear politics, the foreign and security policies of the United States and Russia, neutrality and European security and defence issues.

Valentina contributed a chapter to the book Russia's War on Ukraine (Springer, 2023).

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