South Asia and the Non-Proliferation Regime

Conference at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

On July 16, the Non-Proliferation Project sponsored a special one-day conference at the Carnegie Endowment Conference Center in Washington, D.C.  Over 120 participants gathered to assess the damage done to the non-proliferation regime by the nuclear tests in South Asia.

The remarks of selected panelists  are available below by clicking on the highlighted name of the panelist.  More presentations and transcripts of post-presentation discussions will be added soon.

The conference also marked the release of Tracking Nuclear Proliferation, 1998. Selected chapters of the book and ordering information are available by clicking here.

Opening Remarks:  Jessica Mathews, President, Carnegie Endowment

Panel One: Assessment of the South Asia Nuclear and Missile Programs Peter Lavoy, Special Assistant for Counterproliferation Policy, US Department of Defense Dr. Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu, Fellow, Rockefeller Foundation

Panel Two: Regional Impact David Albright, President, Institute for Science and International Security Patrick Clawson, Director of Research, Washington Institute for Near East Studies Benjamin Frankel, Editor, Security Studies Dr. Ming Zhang, Author, Major Powers at a Crossroads
	Panel Three: Global Impact on Regime Instruments Benjamin Sanders, Executive Director, Programme for Promoting Nuclear Nonproliferation Paul Leventhal, President, Nuclear Control Institute Paul O’Sullivan, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Australia Henry Sokolski, Executive Director, Nonproliferation Policy Education Center
Panel Four: Responses to the Crisis: Where Do We Go From Here? Lewis Dunn, Director, SAIC Center for Global Security and Cooperation Ralph Lysyshyn, Director General, International Security Bureau,Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade, Canada Robert Einhorn, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Non-Proliferation, Department of State, United States Question and Answer Session for Panel Four

Moderator: Joseph Cirincione, Senior Associate, Carnegie Endowment

List of Participants