Weapons are acquired to protect the national security interests of the state: they may be used to settle disputes between one state and another, or they are accumulated as a defensive precaution to dissuade any future or offensive military action. Quite often, weapons are used i…
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In world politics, power relations take many forms: violent, creative, and disciplinary. International relations theory has neglected these differences. This dissertation contributes to explaining how power operates in different modes by studying the monitoring power manifest in…
The study of compliance is crucial to developing more effective multilateral arms control agreements and to accumulating theoretical knowledge about state interaction and world politics. This project analyzes why multilateral compliance ever occurs in politically and militarily …
The proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and their delivery systems, particularly ballistic missiles, is among the most prominent concerns on the contemporary international security agenda. Efforts to contain proliferation, traditionally undertaken through …
This thesis develops an analytical framework for optimal design of a ban on chemical weapons (CW). The thesis addresses two principal questions: first, could it be in the interest of individual states to adopt a CW ban, even if compliance by adversaries cannot be presupposed? Se…
Canadian nuclear non-proliferation policy includes all actions effected by the Government of Canada in the fields of disarmament, arms control, defence, security, nuclear policy, and export controls, which are aimed at preventing the spread of indigenous nuclear military capabil…