Creating a Common EU Policy on Nuclear Non-proliferation Education : [electronic resource] a case study of Sweden / Thomas Jonter

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Sweden’s non-proliferation cooperation with several former Soviet states was already well developed when Sweden joined the EU in 1995. However, a new set of cooperative activities—nuclear non-proliferation education cooperation programmes in Russia and later Ukraine—started in 2004. Sweden has performed well in terms of the goals of the EU WMD Strategy and the associated 2008 New Lines for Action, including through the non-proliferation education programmes. However, this has much to do with the great overlap between the long-standing Swedish national policy, which has largely been pursued independently of the obligations of EU membership. Implementation of the EU WMD Strategy has nevertheless had positive impacts on the Swedish support activities.

The EU Non-Proliferation Consortium is a network of foreign policy institutions and research centres from across the EU engaged in political and security-related dialogue and discussion of measures to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and their delivery systems. The Consortium is managed jointly by SIPRI and three other institutes, in close cooperation with the representative of the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. The three institutes are the Fondation pour la recherche stratégique in Paris, the Peace Research Institute in Frankfurt (HSFK/PRIF), and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in London.

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