Dr Benjamin Schaller

Dr Benjamin Schaller is a research fellow at and recent PhD graduate of UiT – the Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. His research interests include arms control and military confidence-building measures, NATO Russian relations, Arctic security, and the role of trust and distrust in defence and security politics. He has professional experience from the German Federal Foreign Office, where he previously worked as a desk officer for arms control and military confidence-building and has done once more since July 2020. He is also a fellow of the Arms Control Negotiation Academy led by the Negotiation Task Force at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.