Reference no: EM131090796 , Length: 18000 words

A Dissertation on  A CRITICAL APPRAISAL OF NPT: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES

LIST OF TABLES

• Table: 1.1 Nuclear arms control and disarmament treaties
• Table: 2.1 Estimated time needed to acquire a bomb

LIST OF FIGURES

• Figure: 1.1 NPT Agenda
• Figure: 1.2 Provisions of the treaty
• Figure: 2.1 Challenges to NPT

ABBREVIATIONS
ABSTRACT
TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Aim of the study

Significance

Hypothesis

Research questions

Literature review

Methodology

Limitations

Organization of the study

Chapter 1: Dynamics of Non-Proliferation Regime and NPT

• Theoretical framework:Non-proliferation regime1.1.1 Evolution of non-proliferation regime
• Efforts of international state actors 1.2 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty1.2.1 NPT agenda1.2.2 Provisions of the treaty1.3 Safeguards of the
• treaty IAEA
• Additional protocol
• Critical overview
• NPT review conferences
• 1995 review conference
• 2000 review conference
• 2005 review conference
• 2010 review conference

2: TRENDS AND CHALLENGES

• Global Expansion of Nuclear Power
• Non-compliance: Case study of Iran and North Korea
• The Safeguards System (IAEA)
• Nuclear terrorism-The non-state actor threat
•  The three defector nuclear states

3: STRENGTHENING THE NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY

• Strengthening verification mechanism
• Nuclear Fuel Cycle
• Strengthening export controls
•  Ensuring disarmament 
•  Controlling fissile material transfer
• Controlling nuclear testing
• Fulfilling negative security assurances
• Establishing nuclear weapons free zones
•  Addressing withdrawal clause
• Addressing institutional Issues
•  Ensuring NPT universality

Conclusion

References

Appendices

Abstract:-The international community today is faced with the dilemma of nuclear proliferation. It has proved to be the gravest challenge for mankind for its catastrophic nature has the tendency to send mankind back to Stone Age. In order to fight of this obtrusion to the
global peace treaties, regimes and agreements have been established. NPT is the penumbra of these efforts that has served to enroot non-proliferation regime in the international law. But this treaty has a lot of loop holes which have been manipulated by the member states to serve their purpose and in turn challenge the validity of the treaty due to the presence of anarchical international system. In the light of this the international community has to resort to certain measure in order to ward off these problems .The need of the hour lies in genuine effort and collaboration of the north and south to promote the NPT agenda. The methodology adopted by the researcher is descriptive analytical and deductive paradigm.