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Security, Cooperation and Disarmament cover

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.


Contents:
  • 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)
  • Small Arms Proliferation:
    • "Non-lethal" Weapons (J Altmann)
    • How Deadly Could Non-lethal Weapons Be? (K K Babievsky & D S Rodionov)
    • The United Nations Register of Conventional Arms: Four Years of Experience (H Wulf)
  • 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 & S N Rodionov)
    • The Future of NATO: A View from South-East Europe (N Behar)
  • Global Action on the Energy/Climate Interaction:
    • The 1.5 Kilowatt Society — Towards a Sustainable, Equitable, and Habitable World (H-P Dürr)
    • The Potential of Renewable Energies (H Glubrecht)
    • Nuclear Energy, the Climate and Nuclear Disarmament (V Knapp)
  • 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 & C Kortekaas)
    • The Fight Against Poverty and National Development Strategies (A Ruiz)
  • The UN After the 50th Anniversary: Global Governance:
    • UN Peacekeeping Operations in 1995 (T Findlay)
    • Peacekeeping and Peacekeeping Operations (G von Bonsdorff)
  • and other papers

Readership: Social scientists.