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In this book the author examines the reasons why negotiations to curb arms have had so little success over the last 40 years, and provides an up-to-date survey of the problems and prospects for arms control at a time of renewed hope that governments can agree to disarm.

General requirements for establishing a verification regime in the context of moving towards a nuclear weapon-free world have been the subject of numerous studies. This book presents the studies that address the technical means and procedures for establishing transparency in nuclear warheads and materials in the nuclear weapons states.

A detailed assessment of the conditions for security relations between Washington and Moscow in the post-Cold War era, focusing on the scope for the future co-operative management of common security.

This comprehensive book deals with a wide range of issues in a concise and accurate manner, summarizing SIPRI's work in the field over the past twenty years.

This book results from a research programme jointly financed by SIPRI and the United Nations Environment Programme, and examines the way in which certain resource limitations, such as water, oil, fisheries, can lead to conflict.

This study presents different views on nuclear disarmament and arms control. It offers a brief history of nuclear non-proliferation policy and the nuclear test ban issue.

This work demonstrates the link between military technology and conflict, which is more palpable in southern Asia than elsewhere, while suggesting that it must be approached in a more nuanced way than has been the case so far in discussions of the region.

in this book, experts describe how the framework for producing arms in Western Europe has altered in recent years, and how various actors-firms, governments, and unions-are adapting to the new situation.

The value of major conventional weapons imported by Third World countries between 1971 and 1985 was quadruple that for the previous two decades. This book gives a comprehensive overview of this trade during the period 1971-1985.

These essays examine links between the threats to humankind of military devastation and environmental exhaustion, focusing on the ways in which cultural norms concerning the environment have inhibited the preparations for, and conduct of war, and suggesting how such norms could be developed.

A reference of the world inventory of plutonium and highly-enriched uranium, this book should be of interest to: professionals, lay people and students concerned with strategic studies, peace studies and international relations; and consultants, policy-makers, and journalists.

This text examines the proliferation of nuclear weapons and is intended for scholars and students concerned with strategic studies, peace studies and international relations, as well as consultants, journalists and policy-makers specializing in these areas.

Aaron Karp addresses the current concern that ballistic missile technologies are spreading throughout the world. He examines the missile and missile-armament programmes and technologies, and the ability of countries to acquire such technologies. The final chapter investigates the international efforts to control ballistic missile proliferation.

This book is the first to map comprehensively the security-related policies, strategies and activities of major external actors in Africa, assessing the involvement of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, the EU, and the UN

Analyses the reasons for and the broad implications of the post-cold war reforms of arms and dual-use export controls within the European Union. This study conceptualizes the arms export policy process as a policy system, involving the interaction of three basic elements - the policy environment, policy stakeholders and public policies.

Examines the challenges and dilemmas currently faced by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Emphasis is placed on a set of case studies examining the situation in Hungary, Poland, the Czech and Slovak republics, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, the Baltic states and former Yugoslavia.

The Nobel Symposium on A Future Arms Control Agenda was organized by SIPRI to consider how arms control can contribute to creating a cooperative security system based on the peaceful resolution of disputes and the gradual demilitarization of international relations. This work includes proceedings of the symposium with comprehensive discussions.

How feasible and how vital is the achievement of a meaningful test limitation treaty? This book presents a wide range of expert opinion.

Realistic appraisal of Soviet defence efforts is crucial to strategic planning and foreign policy analysis, but our knowledge is very limited. This book reviews the state of current knowledge.

This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the stategic, military, and technological forces which are changing the nature and likelihood of war.

Governing the Bomb illuminates the structures and processes of nuclear weapons governance of eight nuclear-armed states-the USA, Russia, the UK, France and China as well as Israel, India and Pakistan-and explores how greater democracy, transparency and accountability could promote the aims of security governance generally and arms control specifically.

Examining whether the total elimination of nuclear weapons is a feasible proposition, this study addresses such issues as the design and maintenance of a non-nuclear security regime. Individual chapters discuss the major conceptual, technical and economic policies which would be necessary.

This study traces the development of security thinking in the nuclear age through case studies of countries that have nuclear weapons, those that do not, those on the nuclear threshold and those whose security is believed to benefit from the nuclear arsenals of other countries.

Naval arms control has become increasingly prominent in recent years, but is usually studied from the perspective of Soviet-American relations. This book examines the subject from a European perspective.

This study explores the evolution of Indian defence policy since 1947. The author examines the domestic dynamics of the issue, concluding that India's defence policy is designed more as one aspect of the quest for great power status than as an attempt to acquire security at an affordable price.

In 1999 the EU decided to develop its own military capacities for crisis management. This book brings together a group of experts to examine the consequences of this decision on Nordic policy establishments, as well as to shed new light on the defence and security issues that matter for Europe as a whole.

Trevor Findlay reveals the history of the use of force by UN peacekeepers from Sinai in the 1950s to Haiti in the 1990s and examines proposals for future conduct of UN operations, including the formulation of UN peacekeeping doctrine and the establishment of a UN rapid reaction force.

Bringing together a variety of experts in business, government, and international organizations, this is a major new evaluation of the growing interdependence of the private and public sectors in tackling present-day security challenges.

Considers in particular whether arms procurement can become more responsive to the broader objectives of security and public accountability. This volume also includes case studies similar to the ones covered in the first volume that examined in detail the processes that lie behind arms procurement decisions in six arms-recipient countries.

Conventional Arms Control provides an analysis of the political and operational problems of verification of conventional arms control in Europe. It examines aspects of the verification of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) and includes assessments of the different negotiating positions and concepts involved.