Disarmament

At every major peace conference for the past 200 years victors have disarmed their defeated enemies to try to prevent them from overturning the peace settlement. The efficacy and durability of enforced disarmament measures, and the resistance they are likely to encounter, are thus issues of central strategic and political importance. Philip Towle examines the most important peace settlements from the time of Napolean to Saddam Hussein in the first major history of this fascinating subject.

Distinguished scholars across several disciplines discuss possible negative economic and social consequences of international military disarmament, including unemployment, conversion costs, and the related hampered growth of research and development, associated with the conversion from a military industrial economy to a civilian complex. The authors present techniques for managing sectoral and regional economic imbalances and conclude that disarmament would ultimately release resources for foreign aid to close the gap between the world's haves and have-nots.

This War College text incorporates the work of practitioners, academics, and members of the U.S. negotiating team to present a concise analysis of arms reduction efforts. Its first five chapters provide a thorough understanding of conventional arms control history. Successive chapters address: the role of partial disarmament; CFE proposals, data, and military implications of a successful agreement; U.S. Interagency Group process; High Level Task Force; and updates on both Vienna negotiations. This hard-headed book designed for policy makers is a valuable resource for courses in foreign policy, negotiation, political theory, and public policy.

This book updates information on key issues regarding the conversion of global resources from military to civilian use. It provides unique sets of data, such as an index of disarmament and figures on employment in the defense industry. The 1997 edition emphasizes the generation, scrapping, destruction, and transfer of weapon stocks which have been declared surplus because of arms control agreements, unilateral disarmament, or the end of armed conflicts. Analyses, empirical data, and policy discussions deal with heavy and light conventional arms, as well as chemical warfare agents and nuclear weapons.

Rueckert provides the first comprehensive treatment of the on-site inspection regimes included in modern arms control agreements. He looks at the core concepts of the on-site inspection approach and blends analysis of treaty provisions with a discussion of how they work in practice. The in-depth discussion covers all aspects of on-site inspection: its evolution, how various types of inspection and monitoring work, and how inspection regimes are implemented. Rueckert concludes with a discussion of the costs and benefits.