Russia's Engagement in the Global South Post Ukraine

Dr. Hanna Notte is a Senior Research Associate with the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Prior to that, she was a Senior Political Officer with The Shaikh Group, an NGO focused on informal diplomacy in the Middle East. She completed her doctorate at Oxford University in 2018 on the topic of Russian foreign policy in the Middle East. Notte was a visiting researcher in 2015–16 with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Carnegie Moscow Center in Moscow, Russia. Other visiting research stints have included the Konrad-Adenauer-Foundation’s Syria/Iraq office in Beirut, Lebanon and the International Institute for Strategic Studies Middle East office in Manama, Bahrain. Her research focuses on Russia-West relations, Russian foreign policy in the Middle East, Russian military innovation, challenges to the Chemical Weapons Convention, and arms control in the Middle East. Notte’s articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, The Nonproliferation Review, War on the Rocks and The Washington Post, among others. Dr. Notte holds a BA in Social and Political Sciences from Cambridge University and an MPhil in International Relations from Oxford University. She is based in Berlin/Vienna.