Naeem Ahmad Salik

Before his retirement from Pakistan's military, Brigadier Salik served as director of arms control and disarmament affairs in the Strategic Plans Division, the secretariat of Pakistan's National Command Authority. He has taught at National Defense University in Islamabad and has been a visiting scholar at Johns Hopkins University and the Brookings Institution. He is currently pursuing a doctorate in political science and international relations at the Center for Muslim States and Societies at the University of Western Australia.

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Articles by Naeem Ahmad Salik

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
31 May 2012

Critical issues provoke enduring disagreements

Naeem Ahmad Salik

Throughout this Roundtable's lively debate, the participants have vigorously contested one another's positions and largely stuck to their own. I will not deviate from that pattern now.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
10 May 2012

Solutions must not create new problems

Naeem Ahmad Salik

My fellow participants in this Roundtable, Sunday Jonah and Adel M. Ali, have correctly pointed out a number of weaknesses and anomalies in the global nonproliferation regime. One may disagree, however, with certain aspects of their diagnoses and remedies.

Development and Disarmament Roundtable
1 May 2012

Toward a fairer, more effective nonproliferation regime

Naeem Ahmad Salik

This Roundtable asks how signatories to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) can ensure that the treaty's provisions are fairly enforced.