Project output

(with Laura Considine), ‘Reagan may have had trust in Gorbachev, but the United States demanded verification of the Soviet Union’, in Martin Klimke, Reinhild Kreis and Christian Ostermann, eds, ‘Trust, but verify’: the politics of uncertainty and the transformation of the Cold War order, 1969–1991 (forthcoming).

(With Naomi Head), ‘Conflicting Narratives of Insecurity: Nuclear Negotiations with Iran 2003-2006’, (article submitted to the journal Security Dialogue).

(with Josh Baker) ‘Deciphering Obama’s letter to the Supreme Leader’, The Birmingham Brief, http://www.download.bham.ac.uk/onlinecomms/ecards/bham-brief-responsive/10443-bham-brief-ecard-responsive-13-nov-aw.html, 13 November 2014.

‘From Distrust to Trust in Adversarial Relationships’, ‘Saving Humans’/ICCS Blog, https://securitydilemmas.wordpress.com/2014/06/10/from-distrust-to-trust-in-adversarial-relationships/, 10 June 2014.

(with William Walker) ‘The Problem of Weak Nuclear States’ The Nonproliferation Review, 20:3 (December 2013), pp. 411-431.

 ‘Trust crucial in high-stakes nuclear talks with Iran’, The Conversation, http://theconversation.com/trust-crucial-in-high-stakes-nuclear-talks-with-iran-19170, 15 October 2013.

‘Investigating Diplomatic Transformations’, International Affairs (revised version of the 2012 Martin Wight Memorial Lecture), 89:2 (2013), 477-496.

(with Josh Baker and Scott Lucas), ‘Breaking the Deadlock in the Iranian Nuclear Negotiations’, http://www.enduringamerica.com/home/2012/12/17/iran-special-analysis-breaking-the-deadlock-in-the-nuclear-n.html, 17 December 2012.

‘Trust-Building in International Relations’ Peace Prints: South Asian Journal of Peacebuilding, 4: 2 (Winter 2012).

Women in Security Conflict Management and Peace (WISCOMP) CT Working Paper XI, 'Trust-Building in Contemporary Conflicts: A Conflict Transformation Workshop', compiled by Manjri Sewak (New Delhi: WISCOMP, 2012), 72 pp.  This publication is based on a trust-building workshop which I ran with students and early career researchers on 1 March 2011 in New Delhi. 

(with Dani Nedal), ‘Iranian Nuclear Negotiations: A Long Way from Trust’, RUSI Newsbrief, 32: 4 (July 2012), http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/conflict-cooperation-security/news/2012/07/Iranian-Nuclear-Negotiations-A-Long-Way-from-Trust.aspx, 31 July 2012.

(with Mlada Bukovansky, Ian Clark, Robyn Eckersley, Christian Reus-Smit, and Richard Price), Special Responsibilities: Global Problems and American Power (Cambridge University Press, 2012), 290 pp.

'I had gone to Lahore with a message of goodwill but in return we got Kargil': the promise and perils of 'leaps of trust' in India-Pakistan nuclear relations’, India Review, 9:3 (July-September 2010), pp.319-344.  Revised version published in Bumitra Chakma (ed.), The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia (Ashgate 2011), pp. 155-177. 

(With Jan Ruzicka), ‘Decisions to Trust: Maintaining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime’, Journal of the Royal United Services Institute, 155:2 (April 2010), pp.20-25.

(With Jan Ruzicka), ‘The puzzle of trusting relationships in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’, International Affairs, 86:1 (January 2010), pp.69-85.

'Nuclear Weapons in Waltz’s World: More Trust May Be Better', in Ken Booth (ed.), Realism and World Politics (London: Routledge, 2010), pp.249-268.

‘A Leap of Trust. Overcoming the Distrust in US-Iranian Nuclear Relations’, presented at the 4th London Conference on a Middle East Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone, SOAS, 5 October 2009. http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/wheeler_-_soas_iran.pdf

‘Nuclear Negotiations with Iran: Past, Present, and Future’, Briefing and discussion session at Chatham House, 18^th March 2015.

‘Ken Booth and the Theory of World Nuclear Security’, paper presented to a conference on ‘Emancipatory Realism: Ken Booth and the Discipline of International Relations, Aberystwyth University, 15-16 March 2013. 

‘Building Trust with Iran: Lessons from the Field’, paper presented to an invite only seminar at Chatham House, 4 February 2013.   

(with Naomi Head), ‘Avoiding the use of force? Britain's nuclear diplomacy with Iran: 2003-12’, paper presented to a workshop on Britain and the Use of Force after Iraq, University of Leeds, 3 July 2012.

(With Naomi Head), 'Overcoming the obstacles to empathy in US-Iranian nuclear relations?', paper presented to the 2012 joint BISA/ISA conference, Edinburgh, 20-22 June.

(With Naomi Head), 'Overcoming the obstacles to empathy in US-Iranian nuclear relations?', paper presented at the ‘Living with Uncertainty’ workshop, London, 11-12 June, 2012.

‘Reagan may have had trust in Gorbachev, but the United States demanded verification of the Soviet Union.’ Lessons from the making of the INF Treaty, paper presented at a conference on ”Trust but Verify” Confidence and Distrust from Détente to the End of the Cold War’ held at the Woodrow Wilson Center and organised by the German Historical Institute, Washington, DC, November 7-9, 2011.

‘Building trust through security dilemma sensibility: Lessons from US-Iranian Nuclear Interactions’, paper presented to a seminar at the Elliot School, George Washington University, 2 November 2011.

(With Kate Sullivan), ‘Trustworthy Nuclear Sovereigns: India and Pakistan after the 1998 nuclear tests’, paper presented to a workshop on ‘South Asian in Transition: Democracy, Political Economy and Security’, organised by the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Hull, 25-27 August 2011.

(With Naomi Head), ‘Overcoming the obstacles to empathy in US-Iranian nuclear relations’, paper presented at the ‘Living with Uncertainty’ workshop, Milton Keynes, 10-11 May 2011.

‘Building Trust between Nuclear Rivals: Lessons for India and Pakistan from the Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Rapprochement’, public lecture delivered at the India International Centre, New Delhi, 28 February, 2011.

‘From Rivals to Trusting Partners:  Lessons from the Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Rapprochement’, paper presented at the Fundação Getulio Vargas, Rio de Janeiro, 7 December 2010.

‘Sending Vajpayee and Sharif’s bus of trust over a Himalayan sized-cliff: the origins, development, and demise of the Lahore peace process’, paper presented at the University of Kent, 10 November 2010.

‘The Special Responsibilities of the Nuclear Powers’, paper presented to a workshop on 'Special responsibilities in IR Theory and Practice', Australian National University, Canberra, 16-19 March 2010.

‘Building Trust Between the Nuclear Weapon States, paper presented to a workshop organised by ‘The Challenges to Trust-Building in Nuclear Worlds Project’, House of Commons Private Dining Room, 12 February 2010.

(With Jan Ruzicka), ‘The Puzzle of Trusting Relationships in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’, paper presented to a seminar at SOAS, 10 February 2010.

‘The Puzzle of Trusting Relationships in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’, paper presented to a seminar in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, 27 January 2010.