Arms negotiation and control

International negotiations increasingly involve a myriad of state and nonstate actors who approach major issues from a variety of standpoints and work to determine outcomes acceptable to all.

This volume of essays, a map of the road to zero, gives the reader a primer on the current state of nuclear disarmament, provides an up-to-date argument for the merits of a nuclear-weapon-free world, and outlines the steps needed to attain that goal.

Latin America remains a turbulent region, characterized by conflict and increased militarization, despite the existence of regional juridical mechanisms for controlling disputes.

This is the first comprehensive examination of the issues surrounding the potential development by the United States of a space-based laser weapons program.

Relations between the superpowers and the nations of Eastern and Western Europe are especially tenuous as the midpoint of the 1980s approaches.

In this book Professor Kissinger examines the framework of our foreign policy, the stresses to which that framework is being subjected, and the prospects for world order in an era of high international tension.

This book is the product of a continuing joint effort by the Korea Institute for Defense Analyses and the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies to find roads to a lasting settlement of the dangerous intra-Korean confrontation.

This book contains papers presented at a conference held at the University of California's Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation in 1991.

Given the disappointing history of arms control negotiations and agreements, disconcerting trends in the balance of power, and emerging technologies that challenge conventional assumptions about deterrence, new ways to promote security through negotiations must be identified and utilized if arms control is ever to play an integral role in enhancing deterrence and reducing instabilities.

Thirty years ago, President Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace proposal to the United Nations provided the basis for development of nuclear cooperation, trade, and nonproliferation policy in the noncommunist world.

This book compares the foreign military sales policies of the four European non-aligned countries-Austria, Finland, Sweden and Switzerland-using public opinion as an explanatory factor.

This book analyzes the military situation in Europe and the contending views about the military balance and important military variables there.

Heinz Gaertner argues in this Occasional Paper, one area of arms control in which the NNA and smaller European states can make a significant contribution is verification.

The author cites that this is a study of the nature and origins of the dominant post-war approach to strategic nuclear arms control in an attempt to clarify it, distinguish it from others, and begin to explain the qualities which made it so attractive and eventually so widely accepted.

Graham Allison's book Essence of Decision changed the way in which academic analysts think about how governments make major foreign and defense policy decisions.

This book presents papers on different perspectives in tackling the economic, racial and other injustices which generate conflict.

This book is an outcome of the conference on 'Arms Control and Conventional Defense in Europe' held in West Berlin in 1987.

Since the U.

This is the fifth in a series on the spread of nuclear weapons.

This book presents the debate on the test ban issue.

This book presents various aspects of the changing nature of East-West relations and attempts to anticipate future trends in East-West trade and technology transfer, dealing with the evolution of national approaches towards trade and technology transfer.

This book examines the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 and other stringent non-proliferation laws that seek to tighten U.

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The world total of some 50,000 nuclear warheads is beginning to fall off sharply.

This volume incorporates the talks delivered at a conference on 11 Arms Control and the New Middle East Security Environment, 11 held in Ginosar (Israel) in January 1992.

This book examines the implications of emerging security environment for missile defense.

Nuclear-free zones, neutrality, and nonalignment are catchwords that recently have earned unprecedented international publicity for New Zealand's foreign policy.

This book addresses the strategic challenges and proposes alternative international remedies set in historical and regulatory contexts that suggest that nations should increase international scrutiny of atomic power in order to minimize risks.

Designed to introduce the reader to the critical issues of arms control and international security in the 1980s, this collection of provocative and challenging articles encourages a rethinking of conventional wisdom on strategic policy.

The deterioration of detente in the wake of the ongoing Soviet arms build-up has sharply focused the East-West trade debate on the question of advanced technology transfer from the United States and its allies to the Soviet bloc.

This book examines the lessons of the U.

In addition to its efforts to provide the best in nuclear weapons technology, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory has devoted much attention to the question of how to provide effective control of nuclear weapons.

Increases in the number and improvements in the quality of arms transferred to sub-Saharan African nations clearly will affect those nations' economic development and political stability both immediately and in the long term.

The importance to Western policymakers of determining the significance of Soviet strategic arms decisions is matched by the difficulty of doing so.

This volume focuses on the changing role of Congress with respect to various arms control issues-SALT, nonproliferation, arms sales, weapons procurement-and discusses such topical subjects as the role of secrecy in arms negotiations, the involvement of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in the arms control policy process, European perspectives on congressional involvement in defense issues.

Though the Carter administration came to office committed both to good U.

The current standstill in U.

Exploring the long history of conflict in South Asia, this book assesses the role of confidence- and security-building measures (CSBMs) in reducing tension.

With the end of the Cold War and the visibility of U.

Five decades after the first splitting of the atom, the military and civilian applications of nuclear energy have reached a critical juncture, providing an unprecedented opportunity to reexamine both the national and international mechanisms for controlling nuclear energy.

In this timely book, distinguished scholars from the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt and institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow take up the challenge passionately articulated in the Foreword by Eduard Shevardnadze.

This book explores efforts being made to create Russian-American cooperation in managing recurrent conflict in the Middle East.

This is a text on the traditional questions of nuclear deterrence and the unconventional answers suggested by the emerging new world order.

The political dimension of arms control has always had special significance for the Federal Republic of Germany, not only because of the issue of a divided Germany and a partitioned Europe but also because of the country's key position in the Western security alliance.

A comprehensive overview of the state of crisis management in international affairs, this book focuses primarily on the U.

This volume of essays, a map of the road to zero, gives the reader a primer on the current state of nuclear disarmament, provides an up-to-date argument for the merits of a nuclear-weapon-free world, and outlines the steps needed to attain that goal.

Confidence Building Measures (CBMs) were pioneered in Europe at the height of the Cold War.

This anthology constitutes an attempt to take stock of the debate on non-offensive defence after the Cold War, providing information on a research project that was initiated in 1985 at the Centre for Peace and Conflict Research in Copenhagen.

International negotiations increasingly involve a myriad of state and nonstate actors who approach major issues from a variety of standpoints and work to determine outcomes acceptable to all.

Alternative Security offers the thinking person a place to begin to kick the "e;nuclear habit.