Description:
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.