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The uncertain course : new weapons, strategies and mind-sets
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ISBN: 0198291159 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York Oxford University press

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Dismantlement and destruction of chemical, nuclear and conventional weapons : proceedings of a Nato Advanced Research Workshop ... held in Bonn, Germany, 19-21 May 1996

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The end ofthe Cold War opened unprecedented opportunities for reductions in weapons of mass destruction. With these opportunities came new challenges, both scientific and political. Traditionally approached by different groups, the scientific, technical and political challenges are inextricably intertwined. Agreements to dismantle and destroy chemical, nuclear and conventional weapons, after having been negotiated via diplomatic channels, require the expertise of scientists associated with their development to determine the safest and most environmentally sound methods of destruction. It is in this context that representatives from sixteen countries and five international organizations were convened jointly by NATO, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Federal Republic of Germany and the State Government of North Rhine Westphalia 19-21 May, 1996 in a meeting near Bonn to take stock of worldwide efforts to destroy and dismantle chemical, nuclear and conventional weapons remaining after the end ofthe Cold War. NATO support was provided under the auspices of the NATO Science Committee's Panel on Disarmament Technologies. The conference brought together the major actors involved in the dismantlement and destruction of chemical, nuclear and conventional weapons, highlighted the substantial accomplishments achieved in this area and pinpointed the remaining technical obstacles still to be overcome. It also underlined the critical importance of transparency, data exchange and verification as indispensable preconditions for disarmament and cooperative security.

Landmines and unexploded ordnance : a resource book
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ISBN: 1849640130 0585425906 9781849640138 9780585425900 0745312640 9780745312644 0745312594 9780745312590 0745312594 9780745312590 Year: 2000 Publisher: London ; Sterling, Virginia : Pluto Press,

Africa and the international system : the politics of state survival
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ISBN: 0521576687 052157207X 0511549822 9780521576680 Year: 1996 Volume: 50 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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African independence launched into international politics a group of the world's poorest, weakest, and most artificial states. How have such states managed to survive? To what extent is their survival now threatened? Christopher Clapham shows how an initially supportive international environment has - as a result partly of political and economic mismanagement within African states themselves, partly of global developments over which they had no control - become increasingly threatening to African rulers and the states over which they preside. The author also reveals how international conventions designed to uphold state sovereignty have often been appropriated and subverted by rulers to enhance their domestic control, and how African states have been undermined by guerrilla insurgencies and the use of international relations to serve essentially private ends. He shows how awkward, how ambiguous, how unsatisfactory, and often how tragic, has been the encounter between Africa and Western conceptions of statehood.

Superpowers at sea : an assessment of the naval arms race
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ISBN: 0198291353 Year: 1989 Volume: vol *5 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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