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The Future of Biological Disarmament

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The Future of Biological Disarmament

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The Future of Biological Disarmament book

Strengthening the Treaty Ban on Weapons

The Future of Biological Disarmament

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The Future of Biological Disarmament book

Strengthening the Treaty Ban on Weapons
ByNicholas A. Sims
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2009
eBook Published 24 February 2009
Pub. Location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203878828
Pages 240
eBook ISBN 9780203878828
Subjects Politics & International Relations
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Sims, N.A. (2009). The Future of Biological Disarmament: Strengthening the Treaty Ban on Weapons (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203878828

ABSTRACT

This book examines the politics of biological disarmament, focusing on the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) as a treaty regime and the cornerstone of biological disarmament efforts.

Biological weapons have long been banned, but the ban needs strengthening. The 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) is the cornerstone of this disarmament regime. After years of deadlock and disappointment its Sixth Review Conference in 2006 generated new hope that biological disarmament could be reinforced from within. This book studies the intricate diplomacy of the Sixth Review Conference as a key moment in the recovery of self-confidence by the treaty parties. It makes detailed proposals for developing an accountability framework and stronger institutions so that the treaty regime can work better. It examines alternative futures for the BWC and the trajectories to be avoided or encouraged in the short, medium and longer terms as its regime evolves. Controversially, by comparing treaty constraints on biological, chemical and nuclear weapons it restores the BWC firmly to the realm of disarmament rather than arms control and rescues it from misleading identifications with counterproliferation and counterterrorism models.

This book will appeal to policy-makers, diplomats and students of biological weapons, weapons of mass destruction, international security and IR in general.

Nicholas A. Sims is Reader in International Relations at the London School of Economics. He is author of four books on aspects of disarmament.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter 1|6 pages

The Biological Weapons Convention

chapter 2|12 pages

The Convention in context: treaty constraints on biological, chemical and nuclear weapons compared

chapter 3|26 pages

Legal constraints on biological weapons

chapter 4|21 pages

The Sixth Review Conference: successes and limitations

chapter 5|28 pages

Reasons for success and new hope after the Sixth Review Conference

chapter 6|21 pages

BWC next steps (1): an Accountability Framework for organising collective scrutiny

chapter 7|26 pages

BWC next steps (2): strengthening structures for remedying the institutional deficit

chapter 8|17 pages

Fragmentation scenarios: amendment and withdrawal

chapter 9|19 pages

Alternative futures: convergence and reinforcement

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