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This book proposes fresh approaches and concrete proposals to overcome one of the most intractable security problems of the twenty-first century.
List of contents
Part I: The Global Context
Chapter 1: Introduction: In Search of a New Paradigm of Biological Disarmament
Chapter 2: The Challenges of Biological Weaponry: A Twenty-First-Century Assessment
Part II: The Roles of Past and Present Superpowers
Chapter 3: A Perilous Path to Security? Weighing U.S. "Biodefense" against Qualitative Proliferation
Chapter 4: Defense against Biological Weapons: Can Immunization and Secondary Prevention Succeed?
Chapter 5: The Soviet Union's Offensive Program: The Implications for Contemporary Arms Control
Part III: Middle Eastern and Asian Perspectives
Chapter 6: The Middle East: Integrated Regional Approaches to Arms Control and Disarmament
Chapter 7: Israel: Reconstructing a Black Box
Chapter 8: China: Balancing Disarmament and Development
Chapter 9: India: Straddling East and West
Part IV: Disarming Iraq
Chapter 10: The Coercive Disarmament of Iraq
Chapter 11: UNSCOM and the Iraqi Biological Weapons Program: Technical Success, Political Failure
Part V: The Biological Weapons Convention
Chapter 12: Geopolitical Origins
Chapter 13: The Compliance Protocol and the Three Depositary Powers
Chapter 14: Secrecy in the Biotechnology Industry: Implications for the Biological Weapons Convention
Chapter 15: The Global Patent Regime: Implementing Article X
Part IV: Conclusion
Chapter 16: Rethinking Biological Disarmament
Chapter 17: Proposals for the Future: Strengthening Global Commitments to Biological Disarmament
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Edited by Susan Wright
Summary
This book proposes fresh approaches and concrete proposals to overcome one of the most intractable security problems of the twenty-first century.
