James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies
Combating the spread of weapons of mass destruction with training & analysis

Workshops

• Preparing for 2010: Striking a Balance between Nuclear Disarmament & Nuclear Nonproliferation, report on the CNS NPT Workshop, March 7-8, 2008, Annecy, France.
• Report on the CNS Roundtable Conference "Preparing for 2010: Where are we and where do we want to go?" held in New York on 27 October 2007.
• Report on the 2007 NPT Workshop "Preparing for 2010: Getting the Process Right" held in Annecy, France on 16 and 17 March 2007. This report contains a summary of the 2007 CNS NPT workshop held in preparations for Preparatory Committee meeting. It also includes selected papers presented and circulated by the panelists at the workshop.
• "The 2005 Review Conference: Finding Common Ground" Report on the CNS/MCIS NPT Workshop, March 18-19, 2005, Annecy, France.
• "The 2005 Review Conference: Understanding the Challenges and Devising Responses: Workshop on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty", Rapporteur's Report by Jean du Preez
• "The Roadmap to 2005", report on the CNS-sponsored workshop, March 7-8, 2004, Annecy, France, to identify issues for the 2004 NPT PrepCom.
• Challenges Facing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
  Workshop hosted by the Center for Nonproliferation Studies, Monterey Institute of International Studies and Mountbatten Centre for International Studies, University of South Hampton.
  Annecy, France 14 and 15 March 2003

Publications

The IONP publishes in hard-copy and on the CNS website the Inventory of International Organizations and Regimes, a useful and comprehensive guide to the goals, activites and memberships of international organizations, treaties, and reference.

IONP staff have also published the following materials:

• NPT Briefing Book, 2008 Edition
  Published by the Mountbatten Centre for International Studies with the Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
  Created: June 10, 2008

• A Ban on Fissile Material as an Objective of the NPT
  Paper by Jean du Preez, presented at a UNIDIR/EU meeting on the FMCT.

• Thinking the Unthinkable? What If the NPT Collapses, Or is Eroded Away to Irrelevance? [PDF format]
  Paper by Jean du Preez, at the Wilton Park conference.
  [Link corrected December 14, 2007]

• Visions of Fission: The Demise of Nuclear Negative Security Assurances [PDF format]
  Paper by Jean du Preez at the Article VI Forum on September 28, 2006, in Ottawa, Canada.

• A Fissban With Or Without Existing Stocks: To Be Or Not To Be? [PDF format]
  Paper presented by Jean du Preez at the Article VI Forum on September 28, 2006, in Ottawa, Canada.

• Previewing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Conference
  Testimony by Jean du Preez to the Subcommittee on International Terrorism and Nonproliferation, House Committee on International Relations, April 28, 2005. Testimony based on article published in Arms Control Today.

• "The Fissban: Time for Renewed Commitment or a New Approach", by Jean du Preez, Disarmament Diplomacy Issue No. 79, April/May 2005

• "Visions of Fission: The Demise of Nuclear Negative Security Assurances On The Bush Administration's Pentomic Battlefield", by Charles Blair and Jean du Preez, Spring 2005 issue of the Nonproliferation Review (hard copy available)

• "The 2005 NPT Review Conference: Can It Meet the Nuclear Challenge?", by Jean du Preez, Arms Control Today, April 2005

• Report from the CNS/MCIS NPT Workshop, "The 2005 Review Conference: Finding Common Ground" (March 18-19, 2005, Annecy, France).
  A report on the CNS-sponsored workshop to identify issues for the 2005 NPT Review Conference.

• "The Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty (FMCT):Time for a new approach or renewed commitment?", paper presented at the Tokyo Seminar on the NPT Towards the 2005 Review Conference, 7 & 8 February 2005

• "Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones: Still a Useful Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Tool?" by Scott Parrish and Jean du Preez, paper commissioned by the International Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission

• "The Future of a Treaty Banning Fissile Material for Weapons Purposes: Is It Still Relevant?", by Jean du Preez, paper commissioned by the International Weapons of Mass Destruction Commission

• "The Inventory of International Nonproliferation Organizations and Regimes", edited by Jean du Preez

• "The 2005 Review Conference: Understanding the Challenges and Devising Responses: Workshop on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty", Rapporteur's Report by Jean du Preez

• "The 2005 NPT Review Conference: Challenges and Prospects Ahead", report by Jean du Preez

• "The Roadmap to 2005", A report on the CNS-sponsored workshop to identify issues for the 2004 NPT PrepCom.

• "Interview with László Molnár: The Second NPT Preparatory Committee: Issues, Results, Implications for the 2005 Review Conference" Nonproliferation Review, Spring 2004

• "2003 NPT Preparatory Committee: Progress towards 2005 or business as usual?" a report by Jean du Preez.

• "Security Assurances and NWFZs: Is Progress Possible?" (PDF format)
  Paper presented by Jean du Preez at the 2003 Annecy workshop on the NPT: Challenges Facing the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime, March 14-15, 2003 (hard copy available).

• "2003 NPT Preparatory Committee: "Business as Usual?" a report by Jean du Preez and Emily Schroeder

• "The Impact of the Nuclear Posture Review on the International Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" by Jean du Preez, The Nonproliferation Review (Fall/Winter 2002)

• "North Korea's Withdrawal From the NPT: A Reality Check" by Jean du Preez and William Potter, a CNS Research Story of the Week, April 9, 2003.

• "Security Assurances Against the Use or Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons: Is Progress Possible at the NPT Prepcom?" a report By Jean du Preez

• "Cuba's Accession to the NPT: A Step toward Strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime" a report by Jean du Preez

• Jean du Preez and Emily Schroeder, "2003 NPT Preparatory Committee: "Business as Usual?," a CNS Research Story of the Week, May 7, 2003.

• Tanya Ogilvie-White and John Simpson, "The NPT and Its 2003 PrepCom Session: A Regime in Need of Intensive Care," Nonproliferation Review, Spring 2003.

• Jean du Preez and William Potter, "North Korea's Withdrawal From the NPT: A Reality Check," a CNS Research Story of the Week, APril 9, 2003.

• Security Assurances Against the Use or Threat of Use of Nuclear Weapons: Is Progress Possible at the NPT Prepcom?
  Report by Jean du Preez

• Jean du Preez and William Potter, "North Korea's Withdrawal from the NPT: A Reality Check," a CNS Research Story of the Week, April 2003

• Jean du Preez, "The Impact of the Nuclear Posture Review on the International Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime," The Nonproliferation Review 9 (Fall-Winter 2002)

• Jean du Preez, "Cuba's Accession to the NPT: A Step Toward Strengthening the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime," CNS Research Story of the Week, September 2002

• Tariq Rauf, Towards NPT 2005: An Action Plan for the "13-Steps" Towards Nuclear Disarmament Agreed at NPT 2000

• David Fischer, Understanding Nuclear Non-Proliferation (Lynne Rienner Publishers, forthcoming in 2003)

• Interview conducted by Tariq Rauf: Ambassador Abdallah Baali on the 2000 NPT Review Conference, NPR VII/3 Fall-Winter 2000

• An Unequivocal Success? Implications of the NPT Review Conference, Arms Control Today, July/August 2000

• Learning to Live with the Bomb in South Asia: Accommodation Not Confrontation, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January/February 1999

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