Security, cooperation and disarmament : the unfinished agenda for the 1990s
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Security, cooperation and disarmament : the unfinished agenda for the 1990s
World Scientific, c1998
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Proceedings of the forty-sixth Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affaires, Lahti, Finland 2-7 September, 1996
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Description
In this book, scientists write on: nuclear disarmament, including warhead dismantlement, test ban monitoring, and verification measures; the proliferation of small arms, including the UN register of conventional arms; systems for regional defence, including the future of NATO; global approaches to the problem of anthropogenic climate change; strategies for developing in peace; and the future of global govenance, in particular the UN Security Council and peace keeping operations.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 A nuclear-weapon-free world: the comprehensive test ban treaty, R.L. Garwin
- India and the nuclear test ban, J. Singh
- the CTB treaty and next steps towards nuclear disarmament, W. Epstein. Part 2 Small arms proliferation: "non-lethal" weapons, J. Altmann
- how deadly could non-lethal weapons be?, K. Babievsky and D. Rodionov
- the United Nations register of conventional arms - four years of experience, H. Wulf. Part 3 Future systems for regional defence - the case in an enlarged European Union: NATO enlargement - diverging western attitudes, L. Valki
- Russian public opinion on the problems of NATO expansion, V. Goldanskii and S. Rodionov
- the future of NATO - a view from south-east Europe, N. Behar. Part 4 Global action on the energy/climate interaction: the 1.5 kilowatt society - towards a sustainable, equitable and habitable world, H.-P. Durr
- the potential of renewable energies, H. Glubrecht
- nuclear energy, the climate and nuclear disarmament, V. Knapp. Part 5 Developing in peace: economic development and global financial institutions, U. D'Ambrosio
- collective violence within states from a political economy perspective, B. De G. Fortman and C. Kortekaas
- the fights against poverty and national development strategies, A. Ruiz. Part 6 The UN after the 50th anniversary -global governance, UN peacekeeping operations in 1995, T. Findlay
- peacekeeping and peacekeeping operations, G. von Bonsdorff. (Part contents).
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