Arms Control and Disarmament

Arms Control and Disarmament
IRS 604 3(3-0)
Ms. Rahila Asfa

Email: [email protected]
The course will examine why and how disarmament, arms control and nonproliferation have
become important issues in modern diplomacy. It will analyze the progress made in agreeing
global and regional agreements, in verification and compliance techniques, and the role such
agreements play in post Cold War security discussions. It will focus on the impact that
weapons of mass destruction have had on this process; how globalization has facilitated
transfers of key weapons technologies and led to complex international trade controls; and
how the current challenges to global security from proliferation, rogue states, non state actors
and terrorism are being addressed. It will also analyze the problems of conflict caused by
small arms proliferation in the developing world and the efforts so far made to limit this
process. New weapons systems targeting cyber activity and space will be discussed as future
challenges to arms control. New types of international response such as the Proliferation
Security Initiative and technology advances in verification will also be discussed. The
prospects for future progress in arms control will be examined in the context of new
emerging powers and the diminishing effectiveness of conventional military power. The basic
objective of this course is to familiarize the student of the inter- linkage of foreign and
security policies which culminates into war and peace between the states.
Grade Composition:
75% attendance is required

20% - Course participation (Assignment/Quiz/Class participation)
30% - Mid-term examination
50% - Final paper
Course Outline and Reading List
1. Origin and History of Arms Control

Readings:
 Arms Control: The New Guide to Negotiations and Agreements. Jozef
Goldblat. Second Edition, Sage Publications. 2002.
 A History of Chemical and Biological Weapons, by Edward M Spiers,
Reaktion books, 2010, pages 27-68.
 A brief history of nuclear weapons: ICAN http://www.icanw.org/history
2. Pre World War II Attempts at Arms Control, History of humanitarian law, The
Hague/Geneva Conventions
Readings:
 Arms Control: The New Guide to Negotiations and Agreements. Jozef
Goldblat. Second Edition, Sage Publications. 2002.
 https://www.americanforeignrelations.com/A-D/Arms-Control-and-
Disarmament-Between-the-world-wars-1919-1939.html
3. The Nuclear Genie
 Atoms for Peace” speech by President Eisenhower, 1953. Text:

http://www.iaea.org/About/history_speech.html
 Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons, Joseph Cirincione,
Columbia University Press 2008. Pages 1-108
4. Dealing with Nuclear Weapons in Post World War II: The Nuclear Nuclear non-
Proliferation Treaty
 The Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty: history and Current Problems

https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2003_12/Bunn
 Challenges to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/SSQ/documents/Volume-
14_Issue-3/Lee.pdf
5. Nuclear Arms Control: The Bilateral Approach, the Cold War and the Arms Control
Agreements (SALT, START, INF, ABMT, CTBT, Fissile Material-cut-off Treaty)
 The Revolution that Failed: Nuclear Competition, Arms Control, and the Cold
War by Branden Rittenhouse Green https://www.armscontrol.org/act/2021-
10/features/revolution-failed-nuclear-competition-arms-control-cold-war
 https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/salt
 https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/treaty-between-the-
united-states-of-america-and-the-russian-federation-on-measures-for-the-
further-reduction-and-limitation-of-strategic-offensive-arms/
 https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/treaty-between-the-
united-states-of-america-and-the-union-of-soviet-socialist-republics-on-the-
elimination-of-their-intermediate-range-and-shorter-range-missiles/
 https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/treaty-limitation-
anti-ballistic-missile-systems-abm-treaty/
 https://www.nti.org/education-center/treaties-and-regimes/comprehensive-
nuclear-test-ban-treaty-ctbt/
6. Global Nuclear Disarmament: Case Studies of Pakistan, India and Iran
 https://www.jstor.org/stable/26459035?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
 https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/10/23/india-nuclear-no-first-use-strike-china-
pakistan/
 https://spectator.clingendael.org/en/publication/india-pakistan-nuclear-
imbroglio-what-way-forward
 https://www.nti.org/countries/iran/
7. Conventional Arms Control: Small Arms/Landmines
 Filling the Gaps in the Conventional Weapons Conventions” Michael

Matheson, Arms Control Today, November 2001.
 Arming Conflict: The Proliferation of Small Arms”, Mike Bourne, Palgrave
MacMillan, 2007
8. Old Armageddon? Proliferation and the Nuclear Age
 Muthiah Alagappa, ‘Exploring Roles, Strategies and Implications’, in Muthiah

Alagappa (ed.), The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century
Asia, Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008, pp. 78-107.
 Thomas Schelling and Morton Halperin, Strategy and Arms Control, New York:
Twentieth Century Fund, 1961, pp. 9-24.
 Tom Sauer, ‘A Second Nuclear Revolution: From Nuclear Primacy to Post-Existential
Deterrence’, Journal of Strategic Studies, 32:5, October 2009, pp. 745-767.
9. Deterrence: Theory and practice with special reference to India and Pakistan
 https://margallapapers.ndu.edu.pk/site/issue/download/4/219
 http://www.issi.org.pk/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/1299649036_25635225.pdf
 https://www.nps.edu/documents/
104111744/106151936/11+Nuclear+Learning_Jaspal.pdf/150ce371-2c21-42ae-a684-
2c0f480cef6b
10. Arms Control Measures: Failures and Successes

 https://www.jstor.org/stable/3232662
 https://www.orfonline.org/research/why-arms-control-is-doomed-to-failure-45189/

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Arms Control and Disarmament

IRS 604 3(3-0)

Ms. Rahila Asfa

75% attendance is required

Course Outline and Reading List

1. Origin and History of Arms Control

3. The Nuclear Genie

 Atoms for Peace” speech by President Eisenhower, 1953. Text:

 The Nuclear NonProliferation Treaty: history and Current Problems

6. Global Nuclear Disarmament: Case Studies of Pakistan, India and Iran

7. Conventional Arms Control: Small Arms/Landmines

 Filling the Gaps in the Conventional Weapons Conventions” Michael

 Muthiah Alagappa, ‘Exploring Roles, Strategies and Implications’, in Muthiah

10. Arms Control Measures: Failures and Successes

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