Diplomacy and the NPT
by Jayantha Dhanapala with Randy Rydell
Freshly arrived from the printing press of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR): Multilateral Diplomacy and the NPT: An Insider’s Account. The author, Jayantha Dhanapala, serves as the UN Under-Secretary-General for Disarmament Affairs from 1998 to 2003. In 1995, he chaired the Non- Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review and Extensions Conference. Both positions qualify him to comment on and describe in detail the process leading to the indefinite extension of the NPT in 1995, preparations for the conference, group positions at the conference, the “package” deal achieved at the conference, and the challenges that derive from the conference result. An overview of the NPT as a treaty regime and notes on the road ahead round up Dhanapala’s personal review. The book also contains key documents and some URLs.
