Abstract
Nuclear diplomacy has been at the centre stage of international relations ever since the inception of nuclear weapons. Despite so much of international activity and engagement in the field of nuclear diplomacy, little if it has been added to academic perspective, especially on its conceptual framework. Recent work of Gregoire Mallard is a profound framework that attempts to explain the concept of nuclear diplomacy and the process through which it contributed in universalisation of NPR. His trinity of transparency, ambiguity, and opacity is found to be a useful framework to study nuclear diplomacy. This frame work not only covers the conception of nuclear diplomacy in the first nuclear age but also is relevant in the second nuclear age. In this paper an attempt has been made to look into the concept of nuclear diplomacy, its practice and contribution in developing international non-proliferation regime. It will look into Indian exceptionalism which according to some opinion is a threat to NPR while others view it as a positive discrimination. In light of this discussion, the paper will also shed some light on challenges to Pakistan and suggest a possible course of action.
Keyword(s)
Nuclear, Diplomacy, Non-Proliferation Regime (NPR), Pakistan