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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798021003321

Titolo

International cooperation on WMD nonproliferation / / edited by Jeffrey W. Knopf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athens : , : University of Georgia Press, , [2016]

ISBN

0-8203-4891-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Collana

Studies in Security and International Affairs

Disciplina

327.1/745

Soggetti

Nuclear nonproliferation

National security

Security, International

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE. International Cooperation on Nonproliferation: The Growth and Diversity of Cooperative Efforts; CHAPTER TWO. The Multilateral Export Control Regimes: Informality Begets Collaboration; CHAPTER THREE. Nuclear Nonproliferation via Coercion and Consensus: The Success and Limits of the RERTR Program (1978-2004); CHAPTER FOUR. Implementing Nonproliferation Programs: The Cooperative Threat Reduction Process in the Former Soviet Union; CHAPTER FIVE. The G8 Global Partnership: A Glass Half Full

CHAPTER SIX. The Proliferation Security Initiative: The Achievements and Limits of an Informal Approach to CooperationCHAPTER SEVEN. UN Security Council Resolution 1540: Origins, Status, and Future Prospects; CHAPTER EIGHT. Formal and Informal Mechanisms for Countering Nuclear Terrorism: The ICSANT and the GICNT; CHAPTER NINE. The Nuclear Security Summit Experiment: Has It Been a Catalyst for Action?; CHAPTER TEN. Cooperating Regionally, Denuclearizing Globally: Multilateral Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Initiatives

CHAPTER ELEVEN. Bilateral Cooperation on Nonproliferation: The Role of an Epistemic Community in Argentina and Brazil's Creation of a Joint Safeguards ArrangementCHAPTER TWELVE. Understanding the "Proliferation" of Nuclear Cooperation: An Alternative Theoretical Framework and Its Implications for Regional Efforts; CHAPTER



THIRTEEN. European and P5 Responses to Iran's Nuclear Program; CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Conclusions; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

<div><P>International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)-including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons-rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however, states have created a number of other mechanisms for organizing international cooperation to promote nonproliferation. Examples range from regional efforts to various worldwide export-control regimes and nuclear security summit meetings initiated by U.S. president Barack Obama. Many of these ad