27th ISODARCO Winter Course on:
"NUCLEAR GOVERNANCE: PROSPECTS FOR A STRENGTHENED NONPROLIFERATION REGIME"

ANDALO (TRENTO) - ITALY
8 - 15 January 2014


Director of the School:
Carlo Schaerf (Physics Department, University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Rome, Italy)
 Directors of the Course:
Matthew Evangelista (Department of Government, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
Judith Reppy (Department of Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)


Andalo 2014 Principal Lecturers Program
List of Participants General Information Summary and Related Topics


PRINCIPAL LECTURERS



Alexei Arbatov
IMEMO and Carnegie Endowment, Moscow, Russia

Nadia Arbatova
IMEMO, Moscow, Russia

Mirco Elena
Isodarco and FOCC, Trento, Italy

Trevor Findlay
Norman Paterson School of International Affairs, Ottawa, CA; Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Trevor Findlay, Unleashing the Nuclear Watchdog: Strengthening and Reform of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Centre for International Governance Innovation, Waterloo, ON, 2012
(http://www.cigionline.org/publications/2012/6/unleashing-nuclear-watchdog-strengthening-and-reform-of-iaea) and the interactive features that go with it at: http://www.cigionline.org/interactive/iaea.
Thomas G. Weiss and Ramesh Thakur, Global Governance and the UN: An Unfinished Journey, Indiana University Press, Bloomington & Indianapolis, 2010, chapter 3 'Arms control and disarmament'.

Paolo Foradori
University of Trento, Trento, Italy

A WMD-Free Zone in the Middle East Creating the Conditions for Sustained Progress
A WMD–Free Zone in the Middle East: Regional Perspectives

Nico Frandi
European External Action Service (EEAS)

Venance Journé
CIRED, CNRS - Paris, FR

France's nuclear stance: independence, unilateralism and adaptation

Feroz Khan (Unable to attend because of travel problems)
Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey CA, USA

Minimum Deterrence Pakistan’s Dilemma
Prospects for indian and pakistani arms Control and confidence-building measures
Challenges to Nuclear Stability in South Asia

Catherine Kelleher
University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

Wolfango Plastino
University of Rome Tre, Rome, Italy

Global Radioxenon Analysis and Atmospheric Transport Modelling for Nuclear Explosion Monitoring

Tariq Rauf
Global Nuclear Solutions. Former Head, Verification & Security Policy, IAEA, Vienna, Austriaa

Laura Rockwood
Retired Section Head, Non-Proliferation and Policy Making, Office of Legal Affairs, IAEA

Legal framework for IAEA safeguards

Elena Sokova
Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation, Vienna, Austria

Creating a 21st-Century Nuclear Material Security Architecture, Policy Brief by Ken Luongo

Nikolai Sokov
Vienna Center for Disarmament and Nonproliferation, Vienna, Austria

Mark Suh
Korean Pugwash Group, Berlin, Germany

A Tale of Two Koreas: Breaking the Vicious Circle
Reducing and Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: Country Perspectives on the Challenges to Nuclear Disarmament

Carlo Trezza
Chairman, Missile Technology Control Regime, Italy

William Walker
University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, Scotland

William Walker, 'A Perpetual Menace: Nuclear Weapons and International Order', paperback from Routledge, 2012. This is the only publication that covers the whole political history of nuclear weapons, as far as I am aware.
The MAUD Report (document that triggered the Manhattan Project): www.atomicarchive.com/Docs/Begin/MAUD.shtml
History of the Cold War on Atomic Archive: www.atomicarchive.com/History/coldwar/index.shtml

Christine Wing
New York University, New York City, NY, USA

Confirmations are expected from additional eminent scholars who have been invited to lecture at the School. The course will be articulated in formal lectures, seminars offered by the participants, round tables and general open discussions.


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