Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race (Hardcover)

"Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race" responds to a growing concern that changes in the life sciences and the nature of warfare could lead to a resurgent interest in chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capabilities. By bringing together a wide range of historical material and current literature in the field of CBW arms control, the book reveals how these two disparate fields might be integrated to precipitate a biochemical arms race among major powers, rogue states, or even non-state actors.
It seeks to raise awareness among policy practitioners, the academic community, and the media that such an arms race may be looming if developments are left unattended, and to provide policy options on how it--and it's devastating consequences--could be avoided. After identifying weaknesses in the international regime structures revolving around the Biological Weapons and Chemical Weapons Conventions, it provides policy proposals to deal with gaps and shortcomings in each prohibition regime individually, and then addresses the widening gap between them.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	October 2012
Authors:	Alexander Kelle • Kathryn Nixdorff • Malcolm Dando
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-8275-3
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Other warfare & defence issues > Arms negotiation & control Promotions
LSN:	0-8047-8275-X
Barcode:	9780804782753

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