By David A. Cooper
ISBN-10: 0275974774
ISBN-13: 9780275974770
Preventing the unfold of guns of mass destruction (WMD) is an pressing nationwide and overseas safety target. how one can detect this aim is a debatable topic, notwithstanding. Chemical and organic guns and missile know-how are threats to peace equaled purely by way of nuclear guns. but for the grave risks they pose, and regardless of the serious alarm expressed over the proliferation of non-nuclear WMD during the last decade, scholarly experiences of nationwide endeavors to prevent the unfold of those guns is scant. Cooper treatments this via constructing conceptual and normative frameworks to higher comprehend nationwide non-proliferation efforts, then examines competing U.S. and Australian options, respectively, of potential denial, non-possession norm construction and outcome administration. whereas no longer thoroughly incompatible, those competing suggestions frequently abate one another's development and light up greater fissures in Western non-proliferation rules; fissures that finally may well splinter overseas coordination and enervate destiny makes an attempt to avoid the pernicious multiplication of WMDs.
Based on huge fundamental learn, together with 1000s of formerly categorised files, and interviews with dozens of current and previous officers starting from table officials to cupboard ministers, Cooper's ebook will entice anyone attracted to the problems of imposing potent non-proliferation regulations. coverage analysts and students alike will enjoy the scholarly account written via a U.S. palms regulate expert.
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