The Current Problems of the NPT: How to Strengthen the Non-Proliferation Regime With the 'world without nuclear weapons' speech by President Obama and the other moves, indications are good for the next Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. Progress has to be... Nobuyasu Abe | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Nuclear Disarmament in a Non-Proliferation Context: A Russian Perspective The expiry of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty-1 (START-1) in 2009 and an urgent need to conclude a new US-Russian agreement on strategic nuclear weapons so that the oldest and... Alexander Nikitin | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Between Power and Justice: Current Problems and Perspectives of the NPT Regime The nuclear non-proliferation regime, despite being frequently criticised for an alleged lack of effectiveness, is in fact an amazing success story. The number of states which had conducted nuclear weapons... Harald Muller | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Nuclear Disarmament and Proliferation: Two Sides of the Same Coin Disarmament, especially nuclear disarmament, has long been a dream of world ever since it witnessed the horrors of the effects of its use in the Second World War. Nuclear disarmament... G. Balachandran | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
The Realist Case Against Nuclear Disarmament Nuclear disarmament is once again fashionable. If rhetoric was sufficient, nuclear disarmament should be easily achievable. But what the rhetoric hides is not only the difficulty of achieving nuclear disarmament,... Rajesh Rajagopalan | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
The Importance of 2010 In international relations, the more powerful have a way of underplaying history or overemphasising it, depending on how helpful or otherwise it may be in promoting their immediate objectives. It... Arundhati Ghose | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Special Editor’s Introduction The failure of the 2005 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference (RevCon) almost signalled doom for the treaty. The NPT, since it came into force, has always travelled a slippery... Rajiv Nayan | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
Cyber Wars: A Paradigm Shift from Means to Ends The last couple of decades have seen a colossal change in terms of the influence that computers can have on the battlefield, with defence pundits claiming it to be the... Amit Sharma | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
The Urumqi Crisis: Effect of China’s Ethno-national Politics Experts are still searching for a settled answer to the causes and aftermath of the violent unrest between the Han and Uyghurs in China's Xinjiang province that erupted on July... Jagannath P. Panda | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
The Political Factor in Nuclear Retaliation That a nuclear taboo exists indicates the divide between conventional and nuclear war. It is no wonder then that India – though a nuclear weapons power – deems nuclear weapons... Ali Ahmed | March 2010 | Strategic Analysis
