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This book is the first to map comprehensively the security-related policies, strategies and activities of major external actors in Africa, assessing the involvement of China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, the United States, the EU, and the UN

General requirements for establishing a verification regime in the context of moving towards a nuclear weapon-free world have been the subject of numerous studies. This book presents the studies that address the technical means and procedures for establishing transparency in nuclear warheads and materials in the nuclear weapons states.

Analyses the reasons for and the broad implications of the post-cold war reforms of arms and dual-use export controls within the European Union. This study conceptualizes the arms export policy process as a policy system, involving the interaction of three basic elements - the policy environment, policy stakeholders and public policies.

This work charts the development of the defence industries of the Visegrad countries - Czechoslovakia and its successor states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, Poland and Hungary.

This book examines the likely implications of the CTB for nuclear modernization programmes and the non-proliferation regime. The key considerations affecting decisions by states to join the CTB are reviewed and the likely impact of these decisions on the treaty's non-proliferation goals is assessed.

Examines the challenges and dilemmas currently faced by the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Emphasis is placed on a set of case studies examining the situation in Hungary, Poland, the Czech and Slovak republics, Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, the Baltic states and former Yugoslavia.

Apart from a few bases relatively little is known about the size and extent of the US military presence in Europe. This book provides the raw data on what is where - something that has not been done for the whole of Europe.

This book presents for the first time a broad and detailed assessment of the dangers of the naval arms race, problems with naval arms control, possible approaches, confidence-building measures and verification.

In this book the author examines the reasons why negotiations to curb arms have had so little success over the last 40 years, and provides an up-to-date survey of the problems and prospects for arms control at a time of renewed hope that governments can agree to disarm.

An assessment of past efforts, current proposals and future possibilities to limit the transfer of weapons and military technology to Third World countries, by contributors representing the North and the South.

This book is the first attempt to present a broad overview of the prospects for information technology in general, and machine intelligence in particular, in the context of international security.

How feasible and how vital is the achievement of a meaningful test limitation treaty? This book presents a wide range of expert opinion.

Realistic appraisal of Soviet defence efforts is crucial to strategic planning and foreign policy analysis, but our knowledge is very limited. This book reviews the state of current knowledge.

This book presents the first comprehensive analysis of the stategic, military, and technological forces which are changing the nature and likelihood of war.

The searching and wide ranging views of twenty-six international experts on the technical, legal, political and military aspects of space weapons.

In this comprehensive study, 12 experts describe and analyse the military budgetary processes and degree of oversight and control in eight African countries, spanning the continent's sub-regions. These analyses provide the basis for concrete recommendations to the governments of African countries and the international community.

The purpose of this book is to provide a picture of how governments discharge their responsibility to ensure effective control over arms exports. Individual chapters describe national efforts to control arms transfers, concentrating on the legal framework that exists to regulate arms exports.

This book is the first book to outline nuclear forensics in detail and provides a definitive guide to nuclear forensic analysis.

For this text, a group of Russian authors were commissioned to describe and assess the arms trade policies and practices of Russia under new domestic and international conditions. Case studies of important bilateral arms transfer relationships are provided.

Following the demise of the USSR, the end of the cold war, and the increasing importance of the EU, the security relationship between Russia and Europe has become crucially important. This book is the first to provide in-depth analysis of the whole range of that relationship.

This is an empirical account of the size and structure of the world arms industry. It describes various strategies which arms-producing companies have adopted in order to meet the challenges of the post-Cold War world, and explains how tighter military budgets are affecting arms production.

Conventional Arms Control provides an analysis of the political and operational problems of verification of conventional arms control in Europe. It examines aspects of the verification of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) and includes assessments of the different negotiating positions and concepts involved.

The use of reconnaissance satellites to verify arms control agreements and monitor crises has been suggested to the UN, but opposed by the super-powers. This volume examines some of the problems.

The defence industry was one of the pillars of the classic command economy system in Central Europe. Since the early 1990s the sector has gone through dramatic changes. This report describes how the defence industry adjusted to the changed political and economic environment in both the domestic and international context.

A collaboration by 12 authors from different countries, this text presents basic data on the energy resources in the Caspian Sea region, on existing and proposed energy pipelines, on the spread of radical Islam, and arms acquisitions and military spending by regional governments.

An analysis of the response of the South African defence industry to drastic cuts in military expenditure and the demilitarization of society brought about by the end of the Cold War, the collapse of Apartheid, and the stabilization of the regional security situation.

In this book regional security after the Cold War is examined under the major headings of `Containing Regional Conflict' and `Containing Regional Technology'. The general prospects for, and methods of, US-Russian co-operation are analysed. Specific case studies of Somalia and the Balkan states illustrate the new problems of regional security.

Examining whether the total elimination of nuclear weapons is a feasible proposition, this study addresses such issues as the design and maintenance of a non-nuclear security regime. Individual chapters discuss the major conceptual, technical and economic policies which would be necessary.

This study traces the development of security thinking in the nuclear age through case studies of countries that have nuclear weapons, those that do not, those on the nuclear threshold and those whose security is believed to benefit from the nuclear arsenals of other countries.

Governing the Bomb illuminates the structures and processes of nuclear weapons governance of eight nuclear-armed states-the USA, Russia, the UK, France and China as well as Israel, India and Pakistan-and explores how greater democracy, transparency and accountability could promote the aims of security governance generally and arms control specifically.