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This report reviews the current cooperative threat reduction activities with a particular focus on projects and approaches engaging European partners. It examines the organizing principles for cooperative threat reduction and the lessons learned from past project implementation. Finally, it examines how European countries might organize their cooperative threat reduction activities to increase their coherence and effectiveness.

Organized by SIPRI, the Nobel Symposium on A Future Arms Control Agenda considered how arms control contributes to a cooperative security system based on the peaceful resolution of disputes and the gradual demilitarization of international relations. This book documents the proceedings, including comprehensive discussions of new elements of the post-Cold War global security system and objectives and limitations of arms control within that evol...

Governments have a legal obligation to ensure effective control over arms exports and to monitor and supervise the movement of arms to ensure that they do not fall into unauthorized hands. The purpose of this book is to provide a detailed picture of how governments discharge this responsibility. Individual chapters describe national efforts to control arms transfers, concentrating on the legal framework that exists to regulate arms exports. Th...

Recent attacks on merchant shipping in the Persian Gulf have kept maritime security at the centre of global attention. In addition India has become the first-ever customer outside the non-proliferation regime for a nuclear attack submarine. This book offers a sober re-appraisal of the world trade in nuclear weapons against the background of recent developments. In particular it highlights critical areas in which trade in naval systems differs ...

This report examines the prospects for defence industries in Central and Eastern Europe as they attempt to restructure in the wake of the dramatic changes in the security environment brought about by the end of the Cold War. Chapters examine key factors affecting the process of industrial restructuring in the region: the role of military doctrine, the trend in national military expenditure, the process of internalization of the defence industr...

This major new study examaines the structure and activities of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) as an ad hoc group of 45 states committed to applying effective controls on the export of nuclear-related dual-use equipment and material.

This report reviews the current cooperative threat reduction activities with a particular focus on projects and approaches engaging European partners. It examines the organizing principles for cooperative threat reduction and the lessons learned from past project implementation. Finally, it examines how European countries might organize their cooperative threat reduction activities to increase their coherence and effectiveness.

Sieben sich fremde Leute wachen in einer Boeing 727 auf. Keiner weiß, wie er in das Flugzeug gekommen ist und wohin der Flug gehen soll. Die erste Anspannung schlägt in Panik um, als die unfreiwilligen Flugpassagiere erfahren, dass die Vereinigten Staaten einem massiven Angriff ausgesetzt sind - ganze Städte scheinen vom Erdboden verschwunden zu sein. Bald schon keimt bei den sieben Leuten die furchtbare Gewissheit, dass sie die einzigen Überl...