At the end of the Cold War new providers of military technology have emerged in the international market-place. The managers of these firms, as well as their government leaders, are less restrained about exporting sensitive dual-use technologies that can contribute to the global…
At the end of the Cold War new providers of military technology have emerged in the international market-place. The managers of these firms, as well as their government leaders, are less restrained about exporting sensitive dual-use technologies that can contribute to the global…
This work aims to show why the prevention, management and conclusion of war require an understanding of the subjective aspects of decision making, as well as of the hardware and tactics of military operations. Past US security policy decisions are combined with future problems t…
Introduction / James J. Wirtz and Peter R. Lavoy -- Japan's nuclear option / Katsuhisa Furukawa -- Will Taiwan go nuclear? / Arthur S. Ding -- Nuclear proliferation and the Middle East's security dilemma : the case of Saudi Arabia / James A. Russell -- Motivations and capabiliti…
The nuclear nonproliferation regime -- The chemical and biological weapons non-proliferation regimes -- The World Trade Organization and WMD dual-use export controls -- Non-proliferation law and the United Nations system : the U.N. political bodies -- Non-proliferation law and t…
This text analyses the international law and international organisations that have been constructed to regulate the worldwide proliferation of weapons technologies, particularly those that have been classified as weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear, chemical and biologic…