Subject(s): Globalization -- Localization of conflict -- Chemical Weapons -- Nuclear Proliferation -- Arms control -- Post cold war era -- Arms control in the west prior to the nuclear age -- Arms control during and after cold war -- Changing international context -- End of US soviet adversary relationship -- Globalisation of economic, political and social forces, Technology of warfare, Cooperative security -- Domestic factors in arms control: US , Generic issues, Post cold war -- Verification and transparency, Intelligence and compliance, Changing patterns of verification -- Preventing the spread of arms -- Strategic nuclear arms control -- Terminology, Strategic nuclear arms control today, visions for future of strategic nuclear arms control -- Nuclear proliferation -- Counter proliferation -- Chemical and biological weapons -CBW arm control -- Allegations of non-compliance and challenge inspections -- Strengthening the biological and toxin weapon convention -- CBW arms control and cooperative security -- Conventional weapons -- Arms trade fundamentals , Three cold war legacies , new security environment, Controlling arms transfer -- Cooperative security measures -- Cooperative threat reduction program, regional security -- Regional perspective -- Europe: Force reduction talks, cooperative security and the Vienna document, Treaty on conventional armed forces in Europe , Arms control in Balkans, Arms control during war and the conflict resolution -- Middle East : Arms control, Global Arms control -- Africa: Weapons of mass destruction and arm control , Arms trafficking, -- South Asia: Arms control, Strategic predicament -- East Asia: pre and post-cold war Arms control -- Future challenges for arms control -- Future of the offence-defence relationship -- Emerging threats and the inadequacy of the offence-dominant deterrence -- Missile defence technology and affordability , Unlikely prospects of a renewed arms race with Russia, Missile defence and crisis stability, offence-defence relationship -- Arms control in outer space : Existing Arms control, Efforts to internationalize and institutionalize space, ABM treaty and Ballistic missile defence , Space commission and space war games, future arms control challenges -- Security in cyber space : Rising concerns in Information operations, Efforts at international agreements and cooperation -- Arms control in the year 2025 : world of tiers, Global world, Two-Tiered world of 2025