NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION HANDBOOK

he textbook is intended to address this political, managerial, and perceptual gap. It provides a broad overview of the nuclear nonproliferation problematique, encompassing its international, security, and technical aspects in one volume. The textbook enhances the importance of the nonproliferation regime for Russia and simultaneously provides practical guidance on matters managers and politicians encounter in real life. The proposed book is also the first textbook in Russia on nonproliferation that can be used in colleges and universities, so that when young professionals begin their careers, they will already be well versed in nonproliferation culture and politics.

OBJECTIVES:

• To offer, for the first time in Russia, a general overview of the nuclear nonproliferation regime as one of the regimes of the international security system
• To show the role the nuclear nonproliferation regime plays in respect to current international relations and the processes of disarmament
• To describe technical, political, international, legal, and economic aspects of nuclear nonproliferation
• To describe Russia's stance towards nuclear nonproliferation
• To promote nonproliferation values to a novice audience, such as undergraduate students throughout Russia and the CIS (MGIMO, MEPhI and its Snezhinsk branch, MPhTI, MGU, Tomsk Politechnical, Kazakhstani State University, etc.), graduate students, diplomats new to the area of security, government officials, interested journalists, and to those associated with NGOs.

The first edition of the book was published in Russian in August 2000. In autumn 2001, the PIR Center plans to publish the second edition, which will consist of two volumes (the first will be the handbook itself, and the second will contain key documents relating to nuclear nonproliferation). The authors received more than 30 comments, which will be taken into account in the second edition.

Dmitry Rogozin, Chairman of the Duma’s Committee for International Affairs, “The book represents a complex approach to the non-proliferation issues, has a well-thought out structure, is informative and contains useful analysis of the information sources (above all, the Internet sources). All this makes this book a valuable piece for training the new generation of nuclear nonproliferation experts.”

Col.-Gen. Valentin Korabelnikov, Chief of the Main Directorate and Deputy Chief of the General Staff, “The book is an original publication analysing the nuclear non-proliferation issues from the moment of the first A-bomb development until now. The advantage of the book is the assessment of the current situation and the forecasts for the future. It must be interesting for the experts in international law and other specialists dealing with nuclear non-proliferation issues.”

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Textbook is a unique book, since it is the first attempt in Russia and in the world to create a comprehensive manual concerning nuclear nonproliferation issues. The book does not copy the US publications and is tuned for the needs of Russian students.

This study covers the whole range of issues concerning nuclear nonproliferation. It deals with the history of nuclear weapons development, the evolution of the international nuclear nonproliferation regime, international law aspects, details of the diplomatic struggle, and peculiarities of the nuclear programs and nuclear policy of certain states. The book contains numerous facts, figures, and quotations from the documents, all of which facilitate the work of students, researchers, journalists and all other specialists, who have normally to collect such information from dozens of sources, which are not always easy to access.

The book is based on the methodology developed by the PIR Center in 1997-1999 for the lecture course “Nuclear Nonproliferation: International Legal, Political and Economic Aspects” in the MEPhI.

The authors of the manual are prominent Russian experts in the area of nonproliferation, arms control and international security. The editors of the manual are:

• Vladimir A. Orlov has a Ph.D. in Political Science. He is Director of the PIR Center and Director of the «Nonproliferation and Russia» Research Program
• Nikolai N. Sokov is Doctor of Political Science and has a Ph.D. in History. He is Senior Research Associate of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, CA, USA.
• Ildar A. Akhtamzyan has a Ph.D. in History. He is Research Associate of the PIR Center and Associate Professor at the Department for International Relations and Russian Foreign Policy at the MGIMO.
• Dmitry G. Evstafiev has a Ph.D. in Political Science and is Senior Research Associate of the PIR Center, and a member of the Yaderny Kontrol Editorial Board.
• Roland M. Timerbaev is Doctor of History, Professor, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (retired), Senior Advisor of the PIR Center, and a member of the Yaderny Kontrol Editorial Board.

For more information, please contact Assistant to the Director Maria Vernikova at phone +7-095-234-0525; fax +7-095-234-9558 or at info@pircenter.org