Arms Control and Global Order Research Unit at Martin Luther University (ACGO)
The Arms Control and Global Order Research Unit (ACGO) is an interdisciplinary research unit based at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg. It focuses on arms control, critical raw materials, and global order under the conditions of multipolarization and rapid technological change. ACGO combines research, academic exchange, and policy-oriented dialogue, with particular emphasis on international cooperation and interdisciplinary perspectives. ACGO’s tradition of close collaboration with practitioners to provide knowledge transfer and capacity building ensures that research findings can contribute to policy making.
Contact information
- Name: Arms Control and Global Order Research Unit at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg
- Address:Martin-Luther-University Halle-Wittenberg
Faculty of Philosophy I
Institute for Political Science
06099 Halle (Saale)
Germany - Tel : +49 345 5524-214
- E-Mail: [email protected]
- Website: www.politik.uni-halle.de/armscontrol/
The team
| Oscar Prust (Head of program) |
Oscar Prust is a political scientist and legal scholar. He studied in Germany and France. His research examines international security policy, military technologies, and arms control with particular attention to artificial intelligence and autonomy in weapons systems. He is Speaker of ACGO. |
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Dr. René Theuerkauf (Senior Researcher) |
René Theuerkauf is a data scientist and Deputy Speaker of ACGO. His research focuses on natural language processing, machine learning, and scalable computational methods for large text corpora, including the automated analysis of multilingual political and negotiation data. |
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Dr. Jasper Finkeldey (Senior Researcher) |
Jasper Finkeldey is a postdoctoral researcher, political scientist and member of ACGO. His work focuses on critical raw materials and strategic resource policy with regard to steel industry and extraction of rare earths. |
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Alisa Grunert, M.A. (Researcher) |
Alisa Grunert is a doctoral researcher and member of ACGO. Her research focuses on technological change in warfare and international security, especially the implications of emerging and converging technologies for military innovation and international order. |
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Rupert Urbanski, M.Sc. (Researcher) |
Rupert Urbanski is a doctoral researcher and member of ACGO. His research focuses on data science, natural language processing, machine learning, and computational methods for large-scale text and data analysis. |
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Hans Eckardt, M.Sc. (Researcher) |
Hans Eckardt is an external member of ACGO. His research focuses on natural language processing, text mining, the automated analysis of political text data, and the development of scalable data workflows and research infrastructures for computational social science. |
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