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Author : Erhard Geissler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention by Confidence-building Measures written by Erhard Geissler and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Instituto Internacional de Estocolmo de Investigaciones para la Paz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (434 download)
Download or read book Strengthenning the Biological Weapons Convention by Confidence- Building Measures written by Instituto Internacional de Estocolmo de Investigaciones para la Paz and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : S. J. Lundin
Publisher : Sipri Chemical & Biological Wa
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Views on Possible Verification Measures for the Biological Weapons Convention written by S. J. Lundin and published by Sipri Chemical & Biological Wa. This book was released on 1991 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 12 in the SIPRI Chemical & Biological Warfare Studies series will identify and develop suggestions for verification measures for the BWC, and their possible dual function for verification and confidence-building will also be explored in contributions by ten leading experts in the field number 12 in the will identify and develop suggestions for verification.
Author : Malcolm Dando
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1403907196
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Preventing Biological Warfare written by Malcolm Dando and published by Springer. This book was released on 2002-05-10 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. From 1995-2001 the States Parties attempted to negotiate a Protocol to the Convention to remedy this deficiency. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states. The book investigates how this disaster came about, and the potential consequences of the failure of American leadership.
Author : Brian Rappert
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (894 download)
Download or read book Biological Weapons Convention written by Brian Rappert and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is vital to revisit how confidence in the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) can be strengthened. To do that we need to ask challenging questions about what limits the relevance of Confidence Building Measures, and we need to identify what else is needed to establish and maintain confidence between states parties. This paper enables reflection on how those involved in the BWC process collectively assess issues affecting the convention. It focuses on prevalence of defensive reasoning, which inhibits robust inquiry and encourages anti-learning practices. It argues that instead of more of the same, alternative types of discussions needed to be nurtured." -- Authors' summary.
Author : Nicholas A. Sims
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134024886
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Future of Biological Disarmament written by Nicholas A. Sims and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-03-04 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics of biological disarmament, focusing on the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) as a treaty regime and the cornerstone of biological disarmament efforts. Biological weapons have long been banned, but the ban needs strengthening. The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) is the cornerstone of this disarmament regime. After years of deadlock and disappointment its Sixth Review Conference in 2006 generated new hope that biological disarmament could be reinforced from within. This book studies the intricate diplomacy of the Sixth Review Conference as a key moment in the recovery of self-confidence by the treaty parties. It makes detailed proposals for developing an accountability framework and stronger institutions so that the treaty regime can work better. It examines alternative futures for the BWC and the trajectories to be avoided or encouraged in the short, medium and longer terms as its regime evolves. Controversially, by comparing treaty constraints on biological, chemical and nuclear weapons it restores the BWC firmly to the realm of disarmament rather than arms control and rescues it from misleading identifications with counterproliferation and counterterrorism models. This book will appeal to policy-makers, diplomats and students of biological weapons, weapons of mass destruction, international security and IR in general. Nicholas A. Sims is Reader in International Relations at the London School of Economics. He is author of four books on aspects of disarmament.
Author : Barend ter Haar
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 : 0275941000
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (759 download)
Download or read book The Future of Biological Weapons written by Barend ter Haar and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1991-06-19 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The know-how and materials required to produce biological warfare agents are the same as those required for medical and veterinary products; biological warfare technology is quickly spreading across the globe. In this new study, Barend ter Haar argues that a policy of nonproliferation might slow down the current trend toward worldwide deployment of biological weapons, but it is ultimately doomed without a strengthened ban on them. Ter Haar discusses the Biological Weapons Convention of 1972, which did not categorically prohibit activities leading to biological weapons and failed to provide confidence-building measures and allegation procedures. He evaluates the confidence measures added in the 1986 Second Review Conference, and demonstrates how they were neglected by some countries. Ter Haar concludes that the Convention measures are almost unverifiable and proposes a stronger, universal ban that includes improved procedures, regular consultative meetings, extended information exchange restrictions, routine verification, challenge inspections, and other measures. This study is an important resource for professionals, students, and scholars of diplomacy, disarmament, international relations, and the protection of the environment.
Author : Marie Isabelle Chevrier
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402020961
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Implementation of Legally Binding Measures to Strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention written by Marie Isabelle Chevrier and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-07-13 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Incidents of bioterrorism and biowarfare are likely to recur, leading to increased public concern and government action. The deficiencies of the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) are in urgent need of attention: the BTWC is the central international agreement to prevent the proliferation of biological warfare programmes. Uniquely, this book is written by diplomats involved in the decade-long effort (1991-2001) in which State Parties to the BTWC tried to agree a Protocol to the Convention with legally binding measures to strengthen its effectiveness, and academics concerned with the negotiations. Just before negotiations foundered, when the Chairman's proposed text was virtually complete, the problems and proposed solutions were examined thoroughly, leading to this book. The book is wide-ranging in its review of the history of biological warfare, the reasons why the current biological revolution is of such concern, and the main features of the BTWC itself. The core of the book examines the key elements of the proposed protocol - declarations, visits, challenge-type investigations, and enhanced international cooperation - and the implications for government, industry and biodefence, giving us all a better understanding of what still remains to be done to avert a biowarfare catastrophe.
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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134024894
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book The Future of Biological Disarmament written by and published by Routledge. This book was released on with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barend ter Haar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 4 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (777 download)
Download or read book How to Strengthen Confidence in the Biological Weapons Convention written by Barend ter Haar and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Roger Alan Sims
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Reinforcing Biological Disarmament written by Nicholas Roger Alan Sims and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Erhard Geissler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Biological and Toxin Weapons written by Erhard Geissler and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary book analyzes the origins of biological warfare planning and preparation up to the end of World War II. In the period between the world wars, growing understanding of the propagation of disease lead to the fear that potential enemies might be developing biological weapons, with several countries ultimately developing major biological warfare programs during World War II. The relevance of these programs to contemporary concerns is addressed and sheds light on arguments for adoption of a verification protocol to strengthen the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention.
Author : Nicolas Isla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (255 download)
Download or read book Strengthening the BWC's Confidence Building Measure Regime written by Nicolas Isla and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lisbeth Gronlund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book From Nuclear Deterrence to Reassurance written by Lisbeth Gronlund and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas Roger Alan Sims
Publisher : LSE International Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780415475808
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (758 download)
Download or read book The Future of Biological Disarmament written by Nicholas Roger Alan Sims and published by LSE International Studies. This book was released on 2009 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the politics of biological disarmament, focusing on the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) as a treaty regime and the cornerstone of biological disarmament efforts. Biological weapons have long been banned, but the ban needs strengthening. The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) is the cornerstone of this disarmament regime. After years of deadlock and disappointment its Sixth Review Conference in 2006 generated new hope that biological disarmament could be reinforced from within. This book studies the intricate diplomacy of the Sixth Review Conference as a key moment in the recovery of self-confidence by the treaty parties. It makes detailed proposals for developing an accountability framework and stronger institutions so that the treaty regime can work better. It examines alternative futures for the BWC and the trajectories to be avoided or encouraged in the short, medium and longer terms as its regime evolves. Controversially, by comparing treaty constraints on biological, chemical and nuclear weapons it restores the BWC firmly to the realm of disarmament rather than arms control and rescues it from misleading identifications with counterproliferation and counterterrorism models. This book will appeal to policy-makers, diplomats and students of biological weapons, weapons of mass destruction, international security and IR in general. Nicholas A. Sims is Reader in International Relations at the London School of Economics. He is author of four books on aspects of disarmament.
Author : U S Government Accountability Office (G
Publisher : BiblioGov
ISBN 13 : 9781289256906
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (569 download)
Download or read book Arms Control written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO provided information on U.S. and international efforts to ban the development of biological weapons, focusing on the effectiveness of: (1) the Biological Weapons Convention and efforts to strengthen it; and (2) U.S. and multilateral export controls in biological weapon proliferation. GAO found that: (1) the Convention has been ineffective in stopping the development of biological weapons; (2) efforts to strengthen the Convention, which included the recruitment of nonmembers and the creation of a verification system, were unsuccessful because of nonmembers' unwillingness to join the Convention and opposition to an intrusive inspection regime; (3) the United States advocated using confidence-building measures (CBM) such as information sharing so that member nations could exchange biological research and development information; (4) CBM limitations included member nations' failure to submit complete reports and the United Nations' (U.N.) inability to enforce compliance; (5) logistical and practical biological weapon verification difficulties included weapon size, the dual use of biological research and development, and the lack of multilateral information sharing; (6) the United States, United Kingdom, and Russia entered into a trilateral agreement to permit verification visits to build compliance; (7) the United States and Germany were the only countries that developed export controls to increase coordination of export licensing for biological organisms, toxins, and related equipment; and (8) the effectiveness of the Australia Group's efforts to improve export controls depends upon the expansion of its membership and redefinition of export controls.
Author : Erhard Geissler (red.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention by Confidence-building Measures written by Erhard Geissler (red.) and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The participants of the Second Review Conference of the parties to the Biological Weapons Convention agreed on instituting voluntary confidence-building measures (CBMs) to strengthen the Convention. For this book SIPRI has gathered together experts in the fields of disarmament, epidemiology, molecular genetics, and virology. They evaluate the extent to which these CBMs contribute to preventing or reducing the occurrence of ambiguities, doubts, and suspicions which might be raised about compliance with the BW convention, and how CBMs contribute to improving international co-operation in the field of peaceful biological activities.
