Emily B. Landau

Landau is the director of the Arms Control and Regional Security Program at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS). She is author of Arms Control in the Middle East: Cooperative Security Dialogue and Regional Constraints and the recently published Decade of Diplomacy: Negotiations with Iran and North Korea and the Future of Nuclear Nonproliferation. She teaches nuclear arms control at Tel Aviv University and the University of Haifa, Israel, and is an active participant in Track II dialogues on regional security in the Middle East, including Euro-Mediterranean initiatives.

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Articles by Emily B. Landau

Opinion
27 September 2012
Nuclear WeaponsBiosecurity

Israel and the WMD-free zone: Has Israel closed the door?

Emily B. LandauShimon Stein

Last week, Israel's  influential paper, Haaretz, led its front page with a rather decisive headline: "Israel rejects US-backed Arab plan for conference on nuclear-free Mideast." The problem, however, is that the country announced no such decision.

Opinion
6 May 2012
Nuclear Weapons

Negotiating with Iran: Expectations for Baghdad

Emily B. Landau

The only visible achievement of the talks between the major powers and Iran in Istanbul in mid-April -- 15 months after the previous round had been pronounced a failure -- was agreement to meet again in Baghdad.

Opinion
7 February 2011
Nuclear Weapons

WMD no-first-use in the Middle East: A way to move forward in 2012?

David FriedmanEmily B. LandauEphraim AsculaiTamar Malz-GinzburgYair Evron

At the 2010 Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference, a declaration was approved unanimously to hold a conference in 2012 to discuss the notion of a zone free of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in the Middle East. Since this decision, however, it is not clear what, if any, preparations have been taken with regard to organizing the conference, and there remain many more unknowns than knowns about what is expected to take place.