Can
concepts of justice, good, right be applied to the dispute over
1. Ethics and justice in the community
of nations with regard to nuclear weapons and nuclear energy
1.1. Indications for our belief that
there is a community of some sort vs. the perception that the system of
international norms and enforcement has been shattered by terrorism and the
rise of a single super power
1.2. Rights and obligations derived from
the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)
1.2.1. Obligations
1.2.2. Rights
1.2.3. Safeguard agreements: general
structure and state specificities
2. Geographic, economic, technological,
political, and military aspects of
2.1. Energy resources and energy
scenarios for "middle" powers like
2.1.1. Regional oil, natural gas, and coal
resources
2.1.2. Burning fossil resources up or
preserving them for wider future use?
2.1.3. Renewable energies
2.1.4. Iranian uranium resources
2.2. The decisive role of reprocessing in
the nuclear fuel cycle
2.2.1. A variety of reprocessing options
2.2.2.
2.2.3. Reprocessing and enrichment
2.2.4. Production and control of
weapon-grade nuclear material
2.3. The option of
"outsourcing"
2.3.1. Failure of previous
"outsourcing": the example of French withholding of reprocessed material
after the fall of the Shah
2.3.2. A century of Western interference in
Iranian energy politics
2.3.3. Promises and limitations of recent
EU and Russian outsourcing offers
3. Where the dispute stands now
3.1. Controversies around the
implementation of agreed safeguards
3.2. The rights and demands of major
player states
3.3. Is there a peaceful way out of the
nuclear impasse?