Roland Popp

Biography

Roland Popp is a senior researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS). A Cold War historian by training, his research interests include the international politics and history of the Middle East. His main areas of interest are the security of the Persian Gulf region, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and great power interference in the broader Middle East. His second area of research focuses on the politics of nuclear weapons with particular interest in nuclear proliferation and nuclear assistance, regional arms control, and the emergence of the nuclear nonproliferation regime. His academic research has been published, inter alia, in Middle East Journal, Cold War History and the International History Review. He is the author of numerous policy studies and CSS Analyses with a focus on current Middle Eastern developments. He is a frequent contributor to Swiss and international print media and television. In 2014, he was a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

Research Interest

Nuclear Weapons Policy,Middle East, Nuclear Weapons/Arms