Mailing address
One Brattle Square 503
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox 134
Cambridge, MA, 02138
Tytti Erästö
Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
Contact:
Telephone: 617-495-8995
Fax: 617-496-0606
Email: tytti_erasto@hks.harvard.edu
Experience
Tytti Erästö has a Ph.D. in International Relations from Tampere University, Finland. Her interests include nonproliferation, nuclear disarmament, Middle East politics, conflict management, and English School theory. Building on previous work dealing with the UN Security Council process on Iran, her current research focuses on the possibilities of finding a compromise solution to the Iranian nuclear dispute. Previously, she has worked as a researcher at the Tampere Peace Research Institute (TAPRI), Finland, and as a sub-editor of the Finnish political science journal Politiikka. She has also a been member of the Finnish Research School for Political Studies and a visiting scholar at the Department of International Politics, Aberystwyth University, UK.
March 6, 2013
"With Iran Posed to be a Regional Player, US Should Find Ways to Repair Relations"
Op-Ed, GlobalPost
By Tytti Erästö, Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
"The problem is that, from an Iranian perspective, recent offers fail to suggest that the zero enrichment demand would not be reasserted; sanctions continue to be based on it and the P5+1 continue to refuse to recognize Iran's right to enrichment. The resulting vagueness about end goals is reinforced by the absence of any apparent intention to lift the tightening Western sanctions as part of a potential nuclear deal."
October 10, 2012
"WMD Free Zone in Mideast: An Opportunity for Detente with Iran"
Op-Ed, Power & Policy Blog
By Tytti Erästö, Stanton Nuclear Security Postdoctoral Fellow, International Security Program/Project on Managing the Atom
"The P5+1 and Iran should take note of the fact that there is a new window opening, and try to make most of it. The new opportunity comes in the form of a historic conference for the establishment of a weapons of mass destruction free zone (WMDFZ) in the Middle East—a conference which will be held in Finland in the coming December. What is special about this opportunity is that it allows Iran and the P5+1 to step outside of the negative dynamics created by their previous interactions, and to approach the nuclear issue from a different perspective."
