Maryam Javan Shahraki

Shahraki has completed her coursework as a PhD candidate in global governance, conflict, and security at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Ontario, Canada. She received her master's degree in political science from Tehran University in 2007; her thesis project was published as "Globalization and Its Impacts on Fundamentalist Terrorism in the Middle East." In 2009 she joined the executive board of International Student/Young Pugwash (ISYP). She has presented at ISYP, Pugwash, and other international conferences.

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Articles by Maryam Javan Shahraki

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
20 December 2012
Middle East

Angels and demons: a dangerous game

Maryam Javan Shahraki

In his second Roundtable essay, Selim Can Sazak continued to assert that Iran's nuclear program is aggressive in nature.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
29 November 2012
Middle East

It takes two to tango

Maryam Javan Shahraki

In their first-round essays, all authors in this Roundtable analyzed the nonproliferation regime's strengths and shortcomings, and discussed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty's (NPT) prospects for future success.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
20 November 2012

Millennials on the next nuclear generation

Maryam Javan ShahrakiSelim Can SazakBeenish Pervaiz

In the 42 years since the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) came into force, much has changed in the world -- the Cold War has ended, the global number of nuclear weapons has decreased, yet the number of nuclear-armed states has increased.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
20 November 2012

Blueprint for avoiding crisis

Maryam Javan Shahraki

Forty-two years ago, amid the Cold War, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) came into force.