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🚨CBWNet is now on LinkedIn https://t.co/8gua0EIPn5

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🚨Out now: Our latest newsletter "CBW Challenges Radar no. 12" is published. Sign up for future issues: https://t.co/jY3ZPtp2bP

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CBWNet mourns the passing of Kathryn Nixdorff
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🚨Out now! CBWNet researchers, consultants and network members contributed several chapters in the book Thirty Years of the CWC. You can read the full volume here: https://t.co/p0uwm8qNfY

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🚨Out now! The new research article in Defense & Security Analysis by @DrAlexKelle and Malcolm R. Dando explores biodefence as a challenge to global norms against biological and toxin weapons and suggests a potential solution. Read the full paper here: https://t.co/WXSHUfHCdp

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🚨Out now! New article in Politics and the Life Sciences by @DrAlexKelle and Malcolm R. Dando explores gain-of-function virology as dual-use research and its securitization in the U.S. Read the full paper here:
https://t.co/H7wLORk4SB

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📢Out now! Our new working paper provides an overview of the presentations delivered at the CBWNet conference on Norm Contestation and Compliance: The Prohibition of Chemical and Biological Weapons, held on 22 and 23 October 2025. Read the full paper here: https://t.co/ZaKhPl79ps

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📢Out now! Our new working paper by  Barry de Vries explores how the 1925 Geneva Protocol continues to matter in an era shaped by later treaties such as the #BWC and #CWC. Read the full paper here: https://t.co/ZaKhPl79ps

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CBWNet held a conference on norm contestation and compliance at PRIF in Frankfurt on 22 and 23 October. Read more here: https://t.co/kdi50vbmL4

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Call for Papers! We are accepting paper proposals for a CBWNet conference on 22-23 October 2025 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, dealing with norm contestation and compliance. Send your submission until 31 August 2025 to [email protected] https://t.co/IjrQSu9BKo

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🚨Out now! In a new research article in the Nonproliferation Review @DrAlexKelle and Malcolm R. Dando propose a behavioral arms control approach to strengthen the BWC and to overcome persistent biotechnology dual-use issues. Read the full paper here: https://t.co/XBa1aOkhyq

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🚨 New @cwccoalition report out now! @DrAlexKelle & Dr. Ralf Trapp contribute key insights on chemical terrorism and treaty compliance to the new report on the future of the #ChemicalWeaponsConvention. Read it here: https://t.co/AatLe9IHXG

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📢 Out now! New CBWNet working paper by Ralf Trapp on the role of industry in the implementation of the #CWC and #BWC. Read the full paper here: https://t.co/ZaKhPl79ps

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🚨Out now! Our new working paper by @DrAlexKelle explores how states have contested the non-transfer vs. international cooperation norms in the #CWC. Read the full paper here: https://t.co/ZaKhPl79ps

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Don't forget to read @DrAlexKelle's working paper on chemical terrorism published by @CBWNet if you haven't already! https://t.co/zhrnPzBjtX

[Jean Pascal Zanders @JPZanders]

#BiologicalWeapons #Disinformation #Russia #1972BWC #UkraineRussiaWar️️
Instrumentalising Biological Weapons-Related
Allegations: Russia’s Compliance Politics and
the Norms Against Biological Weapons
by @u_jako @CBWNet
https://t.co/8dCkyT2FAi

In 2022, Russia invoked the compliance procedures of the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) over
its allegations that the United States and Ukraine were carrying out biological activities in violation of the BWC. At a Formal Consultative Meeting (FCM) held under BWC Article V at Russia’s request in September
2022, Russia presented its claims, whereas the United States and Ukraine emphasized the peaceful and
cooperative nature of their activities. The 89 states parties to the BWC that participated in the FCM,
including Russia, the United States and Ukraine, could not agree on a common assessment of the
allegations. A qualitative content analysis of their statements showed, among other things, that some
states saw the Russian concerns as not fully resolved and that several others did not take a stand at all,
but that the majority of speakers rejected the Russian allegations as unfounded and insincere. No
country supported Russia’s claim that the United States and Ukraine were in non-compliance with the
BWC. Russia then invoked BWC Article VI that provides for the involvement of the UN Security Council. However, a majority of the Council members did not accept a Russian draft resolution aimed at setting an inquiry in motion, for procedural reasons and for lack of credible evidence for the allegations. The Security Council did not address the matter any further.

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🚨New CBWNet Working Paper! Our new Working Paper by @u_jako explores the instrumentalization of BWC-related allegations and the influence of Russia's compliance-politics on the norms against biological weapons.📄Read the full paper here: https://t.co/ZaKhPl79ps

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🚨New CBWNet Working Paper! 🚨 Our newest working paper, "S&T developments with relevance for the CWC and the BWC," summarizes the wide-ranging presentations from the latest CBWNet expert workshop in Hamburg. Read the full paper here: https://t.co/ZaKhPl79ps

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Great honor for us to award Dr. Ralf Trapp the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his role in the development of the Chemical Weapons Convention! And we are very happy to have @OPCW DG Arias with us.

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In a new @CBWNet working paper @DrAlexKelle looks at state parties’ growing threat perceptions of chemical weapons within the CWC framework. https://t.co/Jk60T5uZb0 5/13