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Disarmament agreements and negotiations : the economic dimension

Serge Sur, editor

UNIDIR , Darmouth, c1991

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Papers from a workshop held in Leningrad in July 1990, and organized by UNIDIR in association with the International Defence Economics Association

Includes bibliographical references

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Description

Current agreements and negotiations on disarmament have clearly economic implications. Their effect and their perception remain inadequately known and uncertain. Based on the analysis of the actual disarmament process, This book questions a number of "sacred cows" frequently encountered in international fora and thinking on economic aspects of disarmament. The long debated link between disarmament and development for example is critically examined. Similarly the very idea that disarmament would yield automatic returns - the famous peace dividend - is called into question. At the same time, conversion also has its cost. For the purpose of the research which led to this publication United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDAR), with the cooperation of International Defence Economics Association (IDEA), assembled a group of well-known economists, diplomats and researchers.

Table of Contents

  • Economic aspects of the INF Treaty and the START negotiations
  • economic problems of conventional disarmament in Europe
  • economic consequences of east-west disarmament for developing countries
  • economic implications of a chemical weapons convention.

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