Title: |
Current Developments in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime |
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Speaker: |
Dr. Fred Wehling |
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Affiliation: |
Monterey Institute of International Studies |
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When: |
Thursday, November 17, 2011 at 11:00:00 AM |
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Where: |
Boggs Building, Room 3-47 |
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Host: |
Farzad Rahnema | |
Abstract The international nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament regime is a complex constellation of treaties, organizations, voluntary arrangements, and other components, all aiming at preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and ultimately achieving their elimination. The formal and legally binding components of this regime, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT) typically receive more attention from policymakers and scholars, but progress on the informal elements of the regime is much more likely in the year ahead. |
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Biography Fred Wehling is Associate Professor and Program Chair for Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies in the Graduate School of International Policy and Management at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and a Fellow of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. Before coming to the Monterey Institute in 1998, Wehling was a consultant at RAND, Coordinator of Policy Research for the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (IGCC), and a researcher at the Cooperative Monitoring Center (CMC) at Sandia National Laboratories. In addition to teaching courses on policy analysis, nuclear proliferation, terrorism, and other topics, Wehling develops online courses and instructional materials, and conducts research on terrorism with chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear materials (CBRN) and ethical issues in nonproliferation and counterterrorism. He is contributor to The Four Faces of Nuclear Terrorism (2005), co-author of World Politics in a New Era, 3rd ed. (2003) and author of various other books, articles, and reports. |