Adel M. Ali

Ali is head of the nuclear law department at Egypt's Nuclear and Radiological Regulatory Authority. He earned a doctorate in political science from Cairo University in 2005. He has been a fellow in the Nuclear and Treaty Law Section of the Office of Legal Affairs at the International Atomic Energy Agency and a visiting research scholar at the University of New Mexico Institute for Public Policy. He is co-author, with Fawzy H. Hammad, of Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones: a Comparative Analytic Study and The Establishment of a Nuclear-Weapon and Other-Weapon-of-Mass-Destruction-Free Zone in the Middle East: Challenges and Opportunities.

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Articles by Adel M. Ali

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
14 June 2012

A tale of two treaties?

Naeem Ahmad SalikAdel M. AliSunday Jonah

Before the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) came into force in 1970, concerned scientists made dire predictions about the rate at which nuclear weapons would spread around the globe. Thanks in part to the treaty, the gloomiest scenarios have been avoided.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
7 June 2012

Universality for the NPT’s objectives and principles

Adel M. Ali

Naeem Ahmad Salik notes that participants in this spirited debate have largely maintained the positions that they espoused when the discussion began. Salik did not deviate from that pattern in his final essay and neither will I.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
17 May 2012

Toward a transformed treaty

Adel M. Ali

Countries without nuclear weapons tend to focus much attention on nuclear weapon states’ failure to achieve the disarmament that the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) requires them to pursue.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
2 May 2012

How to honor the entire bargain

Adel M. Ali

Though the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was never designed to be discriminatory, it has now, more or less permanently, divided countries into different classes -- the five recognized nuclear weapon states, the 184 states without nuclear weapons, and the four nations that stand outside