Overview
- Offers a South Asian perspective with a focus on Pakistan and India’s security imperatives that continue to shape their nuclear choices
- Provides a detailed account of NPT based global nonproliferation regime and identifies contemporary challenges
- Explores why global nonproliferation and disarmament efforts have not been able to achieve the intended objectives
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This book suggests a new bargain between the NPT nuclear weapon states and the non-NPT nuclear weapons possessor states, mainly India and Pakistan, through a regional arrangement to help move towards universalization of the nuclear nonproliferation regime. The author analyses nuclear proliferation drivers to understand why states acquire and justify possession of nuclear weapons even though most nuclear weapon states no longer are faced with an existential threat to their national security. This study also identifies various challenges being faced by the NPT based nuclear nonproliferation regime, which if left unaddressed, could unravel the nonproliferation regime. It also offers the history of confidence building measures between India and Pakistan, which could be a useful reference for negotiating a Regional Nonproliferation Regime (RNR) in the future.
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Keywords
- NPT nuclear weapon states
- nuclear weapons
- nuclear energy security
- nuclear nonproliferation regime
- national security
- security studies
- South Asia
- India nuclear security
- Pakistan nuclear security
- global nonproliferation
- global nuclear disarmament
- non-NPT states
- NPT states
- partial test ban treaty (PTBT)
- International Arms Control
- arms control treaties
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- Treaty on Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
- Technology Control Regimes
- nuclear governance
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Reviews
“This book and the framework it pronounces are solid and viable. The more India and Pakistan mend fences, the chances of its implementation will increase. Sultan’s study has made an important contribution in nonproliferation-related literature. The study’s main conclusions are instructive for practitioners and scholars alike. It also throws more research puzzles for South Asian watchers.” (Syed Ali Zia Jaffery, pakistanpolitico.com, 15 January, 2019) “Adil Sultan’s Regional Nonproliferation Regime proposal is worthy of serious debate.” (Michael Krepon, Co-founder, The Stimson Center, USA)
“Given his military background, long association with and insight into the policy making processes and his sound academic credentials Sultan is eminently qualified…The book adds an important new dimension to the existing literature dealing with non-proliferation issues and would be of great value to scholars and students of International Affairs and would also provide a wealth of information to the general readership as well.” (Naeem Salik, Senior Fellow, Center for International Strategic Studies, Pakistan)
“…an important and timely intervention to offer a regional nonproliferation model that could bring the two non-NPT states into the mainstream nonproliferation regime. Persuasive, articulate and prescient, this makes for a vital read.” (Adrian Levy, journalist, UK, and co-author of The Exile: The Flight of Osama Bin laden)Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Adil Sultan is Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Science and Security Studies (CSSS), Department of War Studies, King’s College London, UK. He has worked for over 13 years on nuclear arms control issues at Pakistan’s Strategic Plans Division (SPD).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Universalizing Nuclear Nonproliferation Norms
Book Subtitle: A Regional Framework for the South Asian Nuclear Weapon States
Authors: Adil Sultan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01334-9
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01333-2Published: 14 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01334-9Published: 03 November 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 158
Topics: Asian Politics, International Security Studies, Energy Security, Foreign Policy, Nuclear Energy