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Author: Daniel Joyner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011-05-26
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 0199227357
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is one of the most controversial instruments in international law. This text argues that countries with nuclear weapons misrepresent the Treaty to prevent other states from developing peaceful nuclear energy, holding back nuclear disarmament in the process.
Author: S. Blavoukos
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2015-01-20
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1137378441
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Much of the literature on the emerging role of the EU as a non-proliferation actor has only a minimal engagement with theory. This collection aims to rectify this by placing the role of the EU in the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons within an analytical framework inspired by emerging literature on the performance of international organisations.
Author: Harald Müller
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 448
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Why have Europeans been slow to join the struggle against the spread of atomic weapons? Can their commitment to this cause grow stronger? The first comprehensive study of the initiatives for creating an effective European policy, this book examines the history, current structures and processes, constraints, and opportunities of a Western European non-profileration policy. The volume opens with a summary of the problems of formulating a specifically European response to the threat of nuclear proliferation, then presents studies of eight nations which are capable of developing substantial nuclear arsenals, and concludes with a blueprint for an effective European policy on curtailing arms proliferation.
Author: Harald Müller
Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This year, PRIF's European non-proliferation program has its 10th anniversary. Following Nuclear Export Controls in Europe (European Interuniversity Press, 1995), this volume is the sixth book published by the program. It differs from its predecessors in that non-proliferation policy, due to the Non-Proliferation Treaty Extension Conference, held a central place in the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP) of the European Union and the associated countries of Central Eastern Europe: it became subject of a «Joint Action» the most significant CFSP instrument under the Maastricht Treaty. This reflected the high rank that preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction has obtained in the post-Cold War European security agenda. The studies contained in this volume focus very much on this Joint Action. They prove both how difficult it is to arrive at a common policy, starting from vastly different positions, and the power that a focused policy by 15 member states, plus the associates, can yield. Since the fabric of CFSP is so much hidden from the public eye, this book offers one rare insight into the working of this highly important part of European integration, and it reveals that CFSP, after all, might be better than its often maligned reputation.
Author: Camille Grand
Publisher: CSIS
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 60
ISBN-13: 9780892065745
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Since the fall of the Berlin wall, the two sides of the Atlantic have struggled to identify a new common project and create the tools and institutions needed to address common challenges. To their credit, they have transformed their militaries, integrated new members into Western institutions such as the European Union and NATO, deepened economic ties, developed new partnerships, and acquired new capabilities. But they have also had a number of ugly and public disputes over the nature and severity of the threats they face as well as the means necessary to combat such threats. Now, several years after the dark days of 2002 and 2003, the transatlantic partners are working toward renewal. Although Iraq remains a stain on their relationship, Europe and the United States have come to realize that, however vast their differences might be, they remain indispensible partners to each other. The question before the two partners today, particularly in light of the change in administration in Washington, is how to capitalize on their comparative strengths to address a long list of common challenges--one of the most pressing of which is nuclear proliferation. In an effort to shed light on the issues, CSIS commissioned a series of essays on European perspectives on nonproliferation. This new report offers a starting point for a new, shared understanding of the threat. It begins not with a look at the official positions of states with regard to nonproliferation initiatives, but instead aims to help experts and interested observers understand some of the underlying historical, political, and cultural bases on which national views in Europe on nuclear threats are founded. These papers help reveal a range of views on nuclear weapons and proliferation and shed light on some of the attitudes that underpin national policies on key issues.
Author: Thomas Jonter
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 13
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The European Union Strategy against Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (EU WMD Strategy), adopted in 2003, was among other things supposed to lead to a unified and coherent approach to member states' cooperation on non-proliferation with third countries. Sweden's non-proliferation cooperation with several former Soviet states was already well developed when Sweden joined the EU in 1995. However, a new set of cooperative activities, nuclear non-proliferation education cooperation programs in Russia and later Ukraine, started in 2004. These programs have been successful in numerous ways. Many universities in these countries can now offer courses in nuclear nonproliferation, and networks of cooperation have been created. To further build the professional skills in nonproliferation of Russian and Ukrainian scholars and scientists, they need to be able to participate in and contribute to international forums. To facilitate this, the EU should resume its non-proliferation support to Russia. Sweden has performed well in terms of the goals of the EU WMD Strategy and the associated 2008 New Lines for Action, including through the non-proliferation education programs. However, this has much to do with the great overlap between the long-standing Swedish national policy, which has largely been pursued independently of the obligations of EU membership. Implementation of the EU WMD Strategy has nevertheless had positive impacts on the Swedish support activities.
Author: Centre for European Policy Studies (Brussels, Belgium)
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 164
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Daniel H. Joyner
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009-03-05
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0191548189
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Proliferation of WMD technologies is by no means a new concern for the international community. Indeed, since the signing of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1968, tremendous energies have been expended upon diplomatic efforts to create a web of treaties and international organisations regulating the production and stockpiling of WMD sensitive materials within states, as well as their spread through the increasingly globalised channels of international trade to other states and non-state actors. However, the intervention in 2003 by Western powers in Iraq has served as an illustration of the importance of greater understanding of and attention to this area of law, as disagreements over its content and application have once again lead to a potentially destabilising armed intervention by members of the United Nations into the sovereign territory of another member state. Other ongoing disputes between states regarding the character of obligations assumed under non-proliferation treaty instruments, and the effect of international organisations' decisions in this area, form some of the most contentious and potentially destabilising issues of foreign policy concern for many states. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of international law and organisations in the area of WMD proliferation. It will serve both as a reference for understanding the law as it currently exists in its political and economic context, as well as an analysis of areas in which amendments to existing law and organisations are needed.
Author: Harald Müller
Publisher: P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Editions Scientifiques Internationales
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 264
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Survey of European policy of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons between 1988 and 1992, a period of great interest. During those years, an earthquake has shattered the political landscape in Europe. Politicians, citizens and researchers still struggle with adapting to the new reality. Nevertheless, it is not self-explaining that the grand political reversals should have necessarily affected this policy field. The chapters give an insight into this period of rapid - if not revolutionary - change that did not leave non-proliferation policies untouched. This volume is the product of a team, a group of committed researchers for whom borders are no inhibition to working together for a common purpose. In this sense, it is truly European.
Author: Alyson J. K. Bailes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9780199290840
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In 1999 the EU decided to develop its own military capacities for crisis management. This book brings together a group of experts to examine the consequences of this decision on Nordic policy establishments, as well as to shed new light on the defence and security issues that matter for Europe as a whole.
