| Description |
vi, 458 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
War and peace library |
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War and peace library.
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| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Part I : Global context -- Introduction : in search of a new paradigm of biological disarmament / Susan Wright ; Challenges of biological weaponry : a twenty-first-century assessment / Richard Falk -- Part II : Roles of past and present superpowers -- Perilous path to security? Weighing U.S. biodefense against qualitative proliferation / Laura Reed and Seth Shulman ; Defense against biological weapons : can immunization and secondary prevention succeed? / Victor W. Sidel ; Soviet Union's offensive program : the implications for contemporary arms control / Anthony Rimmington -- Part III : Middle Eastern and Asian perspectives -- Middle East : integrated regional approaches to arms control and disarmament / Laura Drake ; Israel : reconstructing a black box / Avner Cohen ; China : balancing disarmament and development / Zou Yunhua ; India : straddling East and West / P.R. Chari and Giri Deshingkar -- Part IV : Disarming Iraq -- Coercive disarmament of Iraq / Amin Saikal ; UNSCOM and the Iraqi biological weapons program : technical success, political failure / Stephen Black -- Part V : Biological weapons convention -- Geopolitical origins / Susan Wright ; Compliance protocol and the three depository powers / Oliver Thranert ; Secrecy in the biotechnology industry : implications for the biological weapons convention / Susan Wright and David A. Wallace ; Global patent regime : implementing Article X / Biswajit Dhar -- Part VI : Conclusion -- Rethinking biological disarmament / Susan Wright and Richard Falk ; Proposals for the future : strengthening global commitments to biological disarmament / Susan Wright. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Approaches to the problem of biological warfare have been dominated by a western (and predominately American) discourse that is having the effect of polarizing western and non-western states, rendering a cooperative international solution to problems of security all but impossible, argues Wright (history of science, U. of Michigan). She seeks to counter this trend by introducing marginalized non-western perspectives in this collection of 17 essays. Contributors from the fields of international law, history, information science, medicine, diplomacy, and the military first examine the problem of biological warfare in the dominant contexts that have been expressed since the adoption of the Biological Weapons Convention. The heart of the book is devoted to addressing the political origins and purposes of the international instruments developed to address biological warfare, with perspectives coming from the experiences of Iraq, China, and India. |
| Subject |
Biological warfare.
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Biological arms control.
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Disarmament.
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Biological arms control. (OCoLC)fst00832191
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Biological warfare. (OCoLC)fst00832355
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Disarmament. (OCoLC)fst00894688
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Biologische wapens.
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Ontwapening.
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Wapenbeheersing.
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Biologische Waffe -- Rüstungsbegrenzung -- Abrüstung -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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Abrüstung -- Rüstungsbegrenzung -- Biologische Waffe -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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Rüstungsbegrenzung -- Abrüstung -- Biologische Waffe -- Aufsatzsammlung.
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Abrüstung. (DE-588)4000197-0
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Biologische Waffe. (DE-588)4145624-5
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Biological Warfare -- prevention & control.
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Bioterrorism -- prevention & control.
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Security Measures.
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| Genre/Form |
Congresses.
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| Added Author |
Wright, Susan, 1939-
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Biological warfare and disarmament. Lanham : Rowan & Littlefield, ©2002 (OCoLC)606914251 |
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Online version: Biological warfare and disarmament. Lanham : Rowan & Littlefield, ©2002 (OCoLC)608113675 |
| ISBN |
074252468X (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9780742524682 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0742524698 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780742524699 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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