Aaron Dunne

Associate Senior Researcher

Aaron Dunne

Aaron Dunne is an Associate Senior Researcher with the SIPRI Countering Illicit Trafficking Mechanism Assessment Project.

Subject expertise

Strategic trade controls and their enforcement, proliferation finance, non-proliferation initiatives, Middle East politics and military affairs

Regional expertise

Iran, GCC, wider Middle East

CONTACT Aaron Dunne

Languages

English

Education

Certificate in Persian, University of Tehran, Institute for Persian Studies, Iran; MA Area Studies (Near and Middle East), School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK; BSC. (Hons.) Economics and Sociology, University of Surrey, UK.

SIPRI COMMENTARY

17 June 2013: Access to shipping companies’ data could help turn the tide against maritime smugglers (Expert comment, June 2013 )
Realizing the full potential of the Proliferation Security Initiative (Expert comment, May 2013 )

SIPRI AND PARTNER PUBLICATIONS

Dunne, A., The Role of Transit and Trans-shipment in Counterproliferation Efforts (September 2016)
Dunne, A., Counterproliferation-related Information Sources for the Transport Sector (September 2016)
The Proliferation Security Initiative: Legal Considerations and Operational Realities (May 2013) 49 pp.
Dunne, A., Strategic Trade Controls in the United Arab Emirates: Key Considerations for the European Union (SIPRI, Stockholm: March 2012)

11. Strategic trade controls: countering the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (Chapter, SIPRI Yearbook 2011)

External publications

Dunne, A., ‘Strategic trade controls in the United Arab Emirates: key considerations for the European Union’, EU Non-proliferation Consortium, Non-Proliferation paper no. 12 (March 2012)
Dunne, A., ‘Graphic and artistic political expression in contemporary Iran’, Folia Orientalia (Polska Akademia Nauk, Krakow), vol. 40 (2005)
Dunne, A., ‘Dealing with Iran’, RUSI Newsbrief, vol. 23, no. 12 (July 2003)