This book argues that the way in which nuclear-weapon States have interpreted the Treaty has laid the legal foundation for a number of policies related to trade in civilian nuclear energy technologies and nuclear weapons disarmament. These policies circumscribe the rights of non-nuclear-weapon States under Article IV of the Treaty by imposing conditions on the supply of civilian nuclear technologies. They also provide for the renewal and maintaintenance, and in some cases further development of the nuclear weapons arsenals of nuclear-weapon States.
The book provides a legal analysis of this trend in treaty interpretation by nuclear-weapon States and the policies for which it has provided legal justification. It argues, through a close and systematic examination of the Treaty by reference to the rules of treaty interpretation found in the 1969 Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, that this disproportionate prioritization of the non-proliferation pillar of the Treaty leads to erroneous legal interpretations in light of the original balance of principles underlying the Treaty, prejudicing the legitimate legal interests of non-nuclear-weapon States.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Ambassador Mohamed Shaker, Chairman of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs: Foreword
Introduction
1: Nuclear Energy and International Law
2: Approach to Interpretation
3: Nuclear-Weapon States' Nuclear policy and Interpretation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
4: Legal Analysis of Nuclear-Weapon States' Interpretations of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
5: Developments After 2008: Change and Continuity


Daniel JOYNER, Interpreting the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Oxford, Oxford University Press (200 pp.)

Daniel Joyner is an Associate Professor of Law at the University of Alabama School of Law. He is the author of International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (Oxford University Press, 2009).
Contributors: Ambassador Mohamed Shaker, Chairman of the Egyptian Council for Foreign Affairs.