Hanna Notte

Dr. Hanna Notte is the director of the Eurasia Nonproliferation Program at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Monterey, California. She is also a senior associate (non-resident) with the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and an associate fellow with the Kennan Institute. Her expertise is in Russian foreign policy, the Middle East, and arms control and nonproliferation. Notte holds a doctorate and an 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, a nongovernmental organization focused on informal diplomacy in Middle East conflicts, supporting its engagement with Russia. During her doctoral studies, she was a visiting researcher with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Carnegie Moscow Center. Notte is a regular guest on conference panels and podcasts produced by leading U.S. and European think tanks. Her book about Russia’s global foreign policy since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, We Shall Outlast Them: Putin’s Global Campaign to Defeat the West, is forthcoming with W. W. Norton & Company in August 2026.