The application of the regime set-up by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) will receive particular attention. Proliferation analysis will be undertaken. Issues of export and delivery control and of monitoring and verification regimes will be examined. The conformity of counter-proliferation policies with international law will be discussed. The actual or potential emergence of non-state actors that could use weapons of mass destruction would be discussed. The course will offer a theoretical framework to analyze armament and proliferation dynamics. It will particularly discuss contemporary nuclear weapons issues such as the abolition perspective and non-proliferation in the Middle East. Therefore, the course will cover the following topics: 1. Controlling weapons of mass destruction I: the nuclear nonproliferation regime; 2. Controlling weapons of mass destruction II and III: the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Biological Weapons Convention; 3.Restricting conventional weapons: landmines, small arms; 4. Controlling export and delivery systems: Multilateral regimes; 5. Foreign policy / Diplomacy & Disarmament; 6. Civil society &Disarmament; 7. Contemporary nuclear weapons issues: non-proliferation in the Middle-East; 8. Cyber Security & Nuclear Facilities; 9. Non-State Actors; 10. & Study visits to League of Arab States, Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs, and Cyber Security Center in Smart Village.