The Evolution of Biological Disarmament

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas A. Sims, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Research Klappentext In 1972, the first Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) Review Conference was considered a major event; this book describes the evolution of the disarmament regime of the BTWC from 1980 until 1998. Applying an original sector-by-sector approach to its analysis of the BTWC, this book studies-in a long-term perspective-many topics, from the results of the first four review Conferences to the implementation of Article X (of the BTWC) on international transfers and cooperation for peaceful purposes. Zusammenfassung The evolution of the disarmament regime of the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) is described from 1980, when the first BTWC Review Conference was held, until 1998. The author analyses the results of SIPRI's first four review Conferences.

Product details

• Authors: Sims Nicholas, Nicholas Sims, Nicholas A. Sims, Nicholas Roger Alan Sims
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.09.2001
• EAN: 9780198295785
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829578-5
• No. of pages: 220
• Dimensions: 209 mm x 295 mm x 14 mm
• Series: SIPRI Chemical Biological Warfare; Sipri Chemical & Biological Wa; SIPRI Chemical Biological Warfare; Sipri Chemical & Biological Wa
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, LAW / International, LAW / Public, HISTORY / Military / Biological & Chemical Warfare, Chemical & biological weapons, Chemical and biological weapons, Arms negotiation & control, Arms negotiation and control, Treaties & Other Sources Of International Law, Public international law: treaties and other sources