Reflections on the 2010 NPT review conference

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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Professor Nicholas Wheeler, the leader of the project ‘The Challenges to Trust-building in Nuclear Worlds’ in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth University, for making it possible for me to take part in the Review Conference. The project is supported by an ESRC/AHRC Fellowship under the Research Council UK's ‘Global Uncertainties: Security for All in a Changing World’ programme. For more details about this project please visit http://www.aber.ac.uk/interpol/en/research/DDMI/research_trust_building.html.

 An earlier version of this paper was presented in the Department of International Politics at Aberystwyth in July 2010. I am grateful to participants for their comments.

Notes

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