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Disarmament under international law / John Kierulf.

By: Series: Human dimensions in foreign policy, military studies, and security studies ; 4Publisher: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2017Description: xiii, 276 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780773548237 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 327.174 KIE
Contents:
• Background and context in international law; • Historical development of disarmament and arms control; • Negotiation of agreements; • Interpretation, compliance, and enforcement of agreements; • Weapons of mass destruction; • Nuclear weapons; • Biological weapons; • Chemical weapons; • Other types of weapons of mass destruction; • Weapons of mass destruction in outer space; • Delivery systems for weapons of mass destruction; • Heavy conventional weapons; • Small arms and light weapons, inhumane conventional weapons, anti-personnel mines, and cluster bombs; • Arms trade, export control regimes, and world military expenditure; • Recommendations for further development of international law on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation; • Epilogue: the threat of nuclear weapons and the necessity of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-264) and index.

• Background and context in international law;
• Historical development of disarmament and arms control;
• Negotiation of agreements;
• Interpretation, compliance, and enforcement of agreements;
• Weapons of mass destruction;
• Nuclear weapons;
• Biological weapons;
• Chemical weapons;
• Other types of weapons of mass destruction;
• Weapons of mass destruction in outer space;
• Delivery systems for weapons of mass destruction;
• Heavy conventional weapons;
• Small arms and light weapons, inhumane conventional weapons, anti-personnel mines, and cluster bombs;
• Arms trade, export control regimes, and world military expenditure;
• Recommendations for further development of international law on disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation;
• Epilogue: the threat of nuclear weapons and the necessity of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.