Global Proliferation Of Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Author : Anthony J. Masys,Ricardo Izurieta,Miguel Reina Ortiz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030234911

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Global Health Security by Anthony J. Masys,Ricardo Izurieta,Miguel Reina Ortiz Pdf

With our highly connected and interdependent world, the growing threat of infectious diseases and public health crisis has shed light on the requirement for global efforts to manage and combat highly pathogenic infectious diseases and other public health crisis on an unprecedented level. Such disease threats transcend borders. Reducing global threats posed by infectious disease outbreaks – whether naturally caused or resulting from a deliberate or accidental release – requires efforts that cross the disaster management pillars: mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery. This book addresses the issues of global health security along 4 themes: Emerging Threats; Mitigation, Preparedness, Response and Recovery; Exploring the Technology Landscape for Solutions; Leadership and Partnership. The authors of this volume highlight many of the challenges that confront our global security environment today. These range from politically induced disasters, to food insecurity, to zoonosis and terrorism. More optimistically, the authors also present some advances in technology that can help us combat these threats. Understanding the challenges that confront us and the tools we have to overcome them will allow us to face our future with confidence.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Emergency medical services
ISBN : PURD:32754066744867

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Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Emergency medical services
ISBN : STANFORD:36105062083915

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Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Congress
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UCR:31210012157069

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Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781428921061

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Proliferation of weapons of mass destruction : assessing the risks. by Anonim Pdf

Since the end of the Cold War, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has become much more prominent in U.S. national security and foreign policy planning. Revelations about Iraqi, North Korean, South African, and Israeli nuclear weapon programs, the possibility of a nuclear arms race in South Asia, and the multidimensional conflicts in the Middle East all point to the immediacy of this problem. Adding a dangerous new twist is the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a superpower armed with nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons whose successor states are wracked by economic crises and political instability. At least three main factors underlie this renewed emphasis on proliferation. First, the reduced military threat from the former Soviet Union has increased the relative importance of lesser powers, especially if armed with weapons of mass destruction. Second, certain international political and technological trends are increasing the threat to international security from proliferation. Third, new opportunities are opening for enhancing the current international regimes designed to stem proliferation. Since at least as far back as the l96Os, when it sponsored the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the United States has recognized that proliferation is a global problem and combating it requires high levels of international cooperation. This country has also exerted unilateral influence, successfully in several cases, to discourage proliferation; it will no doubt continue to do so. Nevertheless, placing priority on nonproliferation will require the further development and enforcement of international norms and behavior supporting that objective. International conditions today offer significant opportunities for such cooperation.

Author : Daniel H. Joyner
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191548185

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International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Daniel H. Joyner Pdf

Proliferation of WMD technologies is by no means a new concern for the international community. Indeed, since the signing of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in 1968, tremendous energies have been expended upon diplomatic efforts to create a web of treaties and international organisations regulating the production and stockpiling of WMD sensitive materials within states, as well as their spread through the increasingly globalised channels of international trade to other states and non-state actors. However, the intervention in 2003 by Western powers in Iraq has served as an illustration of the importance of greater understanding of and attention to this area of law, as disagreements over its content and application have once again lead to a potentially destabilising armed intervention by members of the United Nations into the sovereign territory of another member state. Other ongoing disputes between states regarding the character of obligations assumed under non-proliferation treaty instruments, and the effect of international organisations' decisions in this area, form some of the most contentious and potentially destabilising issues of foreign policy concern for many states. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of international law and organisations in the area of WMD proliferation. It will serve both as a reference for understanding the law as it currently exists in its political and economic context, as well as an analysis of areas in which amendments to existing law and organisations are needed.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Terrorism
ISBN : 0160534968

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Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Pdf

Author : Nathan E. Busch,Daniel Joyner
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820332215

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Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction by Nathan E. Busch,Daniel Joyner Pdf

The spread of weapons of mass destruction poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security in modern times--the specter of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons looms over relations among many countries. The September 11 tragedy and other terrorist attacks have been painful warnings about gaps in nonproliferation policies and regimes, specifically with regard to nonstate actors. In this volume, experts in nonproliferation studies examine challenges faced by the international community and propose directions for national and international policy making and lawmaking. The first group of essays outlines the primary threats posed by WMD proliferation and terrorism. Essays in the second section analyze existing treaties and other normative regimes, including the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Chemical Weapons and Biological Weapons Conventions, and recommend ways to address the challenges to their effectiveness. Essays in part three examine the shift some states have made away from nonproliferation treaties and regimes toward more forceful and proactive policies of counterproliferation, such as the Proliferation Security Initiative, which coordinates efforts to search and seize suspect shipments of WMD-related materials.

Author : Jeffrey W. Knopf
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780820345277

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International Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation by Jeffrey W. Knopf Pdf

International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons—rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however, states have created a number of other mechanisms for organizing international cooperation to promote nonproliferation. Examples range from regional efforts to various worldwide export-control regimes and nuclear security summit meetings initiated by U.S. president Barack Obama. Many of these additional nonproliferation arrangements are less formal and have fewer members than the global treaties. International Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation calls attention to the emergence of international cooperation beyond the core global nonproliferation treaties. The contributors examine why these other cooperative nonproliferation mechanisms have emerged, assess their effectiveness, and ask how well the different pieces of the global nonproliferation regime complex fit together. Collectively, the essayists show that states have added new forms of international cooperation to combat WMD proliferation for multiple reasons, including the need to address new problems and the entrepreneurial activities of key state leaders. Despite the complications created by the existence of so many different cooperative arrangements, this collection shows the world is witnessing a process of building cooperation that is leading to greater levels of activity in support of norms against WMD and terrorism.

Author : E. Spiers
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780333983737

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Weapons of Mass Destruction by E. Spiers Pdf

The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction has continued to give cause for concern even after the end of the Cold War. This book analyses how the prospects for proliferation have changed since the 1990s, particularly in light of the Gulf War and the UN inspections of Iraq. It will examine the new pattern of incentives and disincentives for proliferation, the utility of these weapons at state and sub-state levels and their implications for arms control and international security.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Emergency management
ISBN : 0160534968

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Global Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations Pdf

Author : Eric Herring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136330568

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Preventing the Use of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Eric Herring Pdf

These studies concentrate on preventing the use of weapons of mass destruction. A common argument runs through all of the papers: that, while complacency must be avoided, much of the post-Cold War focus among Western governments on the threat posed by weapons of mass destruction is alarmist.

Author : Daniel Joyner
Publisher : Oxford Monographs in Internati
Page : 403 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199204908

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International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction by Daniel Joyner Pdf

This text analyses the international law and international organisations that have been constructed to regulate the worldwide proliferation of weapons technologies, particularly those that have been classified as weapons of mass destruction such as nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.

Author : Commission on Prevention/WMDs,Senator Bob Graham
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2008-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780307473264

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World at Risk by Commission on Prevention/WMDs,Senator Bob Graham Pdf

“The greatest danger of another catastrophic attack in the United States will materialize if the world's most dangerous terrorists acquire the world's most dangerous weapons.” —The 9/11 Commission Report The bipartisan Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism was established by the U.S. Congress to build on the work of the 9/11 Commission by assessing our nation's progress in preventing weapons of mass destruction proliferation and terrorism, and providing a roadmap to greater security with concrete recommendations for improvement. The Commission has interviewed over 200 experts inside and outside of government. They have met with counterterrorism and intelligence officials here at home and abroad who are working to stop proliferation and terrorism The Commission's report examines the government's current policies and programs, identifies gaps in our government's prevention strategy and recommends ways to close them. The threat of terrorist attacks in the United States and elsewhere is still very real. The world remians at risk There is more that can and must be done. Our security depends on it.

Author : James A. Russell,James J. Wirtz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2009-12-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134079698

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Globalization and WMD Proliferation by James A. Russell,James J. Wirtz Pdf

This edited volume explores the relationship between the accelerating process of globalization and the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, which is increasingly seen as the pre-eminent threat to international security. The proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction has traditionally been seen as a function of the 'security dilemma' in the state-based international system. But the advent of the nuclear supply network pieced together by the Pakistani scientist A. Q. Khan represented a departure from this model, involving a variety of organizations not directly connected to a state. This volume assembles an international group of experts in order to assess the relationship between proliferation and globalization to ascertain how contemporary communication, transportation and financial networks are facilitating or constraining trade in dangerous contraband. The book ultimately seeks to determine whether globalization is fundamentally altering the nature of the proliferation problem, particularly the threat that Weapons of Mass Destruction might fall into the hands of terrorists. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation, international security, terrorism and IR in general.