Hanna Notte is the director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California, and a senior associate (non-resident) with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Her expertise is in Russian foreign policy, the Middle East, and arms control and nonproliferation. Notte holds a doctorate and MPhil in international relations from Oxford University and a BA in social and political sciences from Cambridge University. Based in Berlin, she regularly writes for outlets such as the Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, the New York Times, War on the Rocks, and ZEIT Online, among others. Notte previously worked with the Shaikh Group, an NGO focused on informal diplomacy in Middle East conflicts, supporting its engagement with Russia. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting researcher in 2015–2016 with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Carnegie Moscow Center. She is the coauthor of Death Dust: The Rise, Demise, and Future of Radiological Weapons Programs (Stanford University Press, 2023). Notte is a regular guest on conference panels and podcasts produced by leading U.S. and European think tanks, and she has testified as an expert witness to the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee on Russia’s strategy in the Middle East. She is proficient in Russian and Arabic. Notte is currently writing a book about Russia’s global foreign policy since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine for W. W. Norton & Company.
Hanna Notte in The New York Times — December 10, 2024
Hanna Notte in Financial Times — December 4, 2024
Hanna Notte in Financial Times — August 7, 2024
Hanna Notte in Foreign Affairs — July 15, 2024
Hanna Notte in The New York Times — October 23, 2023
Podcast Episode by Maria Snegovaya, Natasha Hall, and Hanna Notte — January 23, 2025
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann, Jon B. Alterman, and Hanna Notte — June 14, 2024
Event — June 12, 2024
Podcast Episode by Max Bergmann, Hanna Notte, and Michael Kimmage — November 2, 2023
Event — October 24, 2023
Report by Lisa Aronsson, John R. Deni, and Hanna Notte — September 6, 2023
