Verification and Compliance

Abstract

Verification of and Compliance with Nuclear Non-Proliferation Obligations: A Comprehensive Synopsis of Outstanding Issues.- The General Framework of IAEA Safeguards.- Interpretation of Nuclear Safeguards Commitments: The Role of Subsequent Agreements and Practice.- Verification of Correctness and Completeness in the Implementation of IAEA Safeguards: The Law and Practice.- The NPT and the IAEA Additional Protocol.- The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO): Current and Future Role in the Verification Regime of the Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty .- The Nuclear Safeguards Regime of EURATOM: A Regional Cornerstone of the Verification of Non-Proliferation Obligations in the European Union.- Technical Limits of Verification and Their Implications for Treaty Design.- Next Generation Nuclear Technologies: New Challenges to the Legal Framework of the IAEA by Intense Neutron Sources.- The Proliferation Security Initiative: A Tentative Assessment.- Enforcing Nuclear Non-Proliferation - The Role of Verification.- Best Practice Guidelines for Cooperative Compliance with Nuclear Non-Proliferation Obligations.- The Legal Nature of Security Assurances: Conceptionalizing Positive and Negative Security Assurances as Unilateral Juridical Acts.- Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Self-Restraint Commitments: The Role of Unilateral Declarations.- Jus ad Bellum: Nuclear Weapons and the Inherent Right of Self-Defence.- Countermeasures to Ensure Compliance with Nuclear Non-Proliferation Obligations.- Disputes on Nuclear Proliferation: Means and Methods for Their Settlement.