False Twins: Intergenerational Injustice in Nuclear Deterrence and Climate Inaction
Franziska Stärk, in: Global Policy, published: 25 September 2025
Vita
Franziska Stärk is a researcher in the Arms Control and Emerging Technologies project at the IFSH. Previously, she coordinated the Young Deep Cuts Commission, a trilateral initiative bringing together emerging nuclear arms control experts from the United States, Russia, and Germany. Before joining IFSH, she worked as a Policy Advisor for the Munich Security Conference. Franziska Stärk completed her studies in Political Science and Rhetoric at the University of Tübingen (B.A.) and International Security at Sciences Po Paris (M.A.). She is an alumna of the German National Academic Scholarship Foundation.
Research profile
Her doctoral research focuses on intergenerational justice and nuclear weapons. As part of an international research project, she investigates the bureaucratic politics involved in nuclear alliance management.
- Nuclear deterrence, disarmament, arms control, nonproliferation
- Nuclear ethics
- NATO & nuclear alliance politics
Memberships & professional activities
- External PhD Candidate at Erasmus University Rotterdam, Netherlands
Latest Publications
Selected Publications
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Stärk, Franziska. 2025.
False Twins: Intergenerational Injustice in Nuclear Deterrence and Climate Inaction.
Global Policy
DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.70097.
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Oliker, Olga,
Franziska Stärk,
Dmitry Stefanovich,
Maren Vieluf. 2023.
Truth or Dare: Transparency, Ambiguity, and Prospects for New International Commitments in the Nuclear Realm.
Deep Cuts Working Paper 15. Hamburg: IFSH.
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Stärk, Franziska,
Ulrich Kühn. 2023.
Roundtable: Making Nuclear Injustice an Agenda for Change.
In: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Stärk, Franziska,
Ulrich Kühn. 2022.
Nuclear Injustice: How Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine Shows the Staggering Human Cost of Deterrence.
In: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Eisentraut, Sophie
,
Franziska Stärk
,
Simon Pfeiffer
.
2021.
Arms Control. Starring Down the Barrel.
In: Between States of Matter - Competition and Cooperation. Munich Security Report 2021,
edited by
Tobias Bunde
,
Sophie Eisentraut
,
Laura Hartmann
,
Randolf Carr
,
Julia Hammelehle
,
Juliane Kabus
,
Luca Miehe
,
Simon Pfeiffer
,
Franziska Stärk
,
Amadée Mudie-Mantz
, 85-97.
Munich
: Munich Security Conference
.
DOI: 10.47342/CYPE1056.
