Full Description
This Research Handbook provides a broad yet detailed treatment of international arms control law. It takes stock of existing arms control agreements, addresses current challenges and aims to indicate avenues for the future development of this distinct branch of public international law.
Split across nine thematic parts, this comprehensive Handbook goes beyond the pure encyclopaedic approach by providing analytical and doctrinal guidance. Chapters provide extensive analysis of international arms control law, addressing both conventional weapons and new technologies, contextualising arms control law and politics through identifying actors, forums and regulatory approaches. The impressive list of contributors also explore geographical zones of arms control including Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America.
Investigating both complex theoretical and recent practical approaches into arms control law, this Research Handbook will be an ideal read for interested students and academics as well as practitioners involved in conflict, security and international law.
Contents
Contents:
PART I ARMS CONTROL LAW IN CONTEXT
1 Arms control law and international conflict and security law 2
Eric P.J. Myjer and Thilo Marauhn
2 International law and international relations in arms control: The case
of nuclear weapons 21
Paul Rusman
3 Technology and arms control law 40
Jonathan Herbach
PART II FORUMS
4 The League of Nations period 56
Alexander Orakhelashvili
5 The United Nations as a forum for arms control 67
Eric P.J. Myjer and Thilo Marauhn
6 The UN Conference on Disarmament 77
Judith Thorn
7 The European Union and international arms control: Assessing legal
competences and instruments 89
Ramses A. Wessel
PART III REGULATORY APPROACHES
8 Prevention and prohibitions as elements of arms control 105
Dieter Fleck
9 Strategic trade controls 120
Daniel H. Joyner
10 Command and control as a subject of arms control 130
Barry de Vries and Rafael Lima Asche
11 Informal efforts 142
Mirko Sossai
PART IV NUCLEAR WEAPONS
12 Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons 155
Tom Coppen
13 Nuclear test ban 170
Masahiko Asada
14 Limitation and reduction of nuclear arsenals 187
Piet de Klerk
15 Nuclear security 203
Jonathan Herbach
16 Regulatory regimes for missile defence systems and fissile material 215
Hennie Strydom
17 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 235
Harald Müller
PART V BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS
18 The 1925 Geneva Protocol 250
Michael Bothe
19 The Biological Weapons Convention 258
Una Jakob
20 The Chemical Weapons Convention 278
Ralf Trapp
PART VI CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS
21 The CCW - a vital potential role 298
William H. Boothby
22 The Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty 314
Wolfgang Richter
23 The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production,
and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 347
Stuart Casey-Maslen
24 The ENMOD Convention 359
Silja Vöneky
25 The UN Arms Trade Treaty: A breakthrough or with some birth defects? 377
Zeray Yihdego
PART VII NEW TECHNOLOGIES
26 3D printing 408
Barry de Vries
27 Unmanned military systems and autonomous weapons systems 423
Robert Frau
28 The regulation of cyber weapons 440
Nicholas Tsagourias and Giacomo Biggio
PART VIII SPECIFIC ZONES OF ARMS CONTROL
29 Nuclear-weapon-free zones and other nuclear-free areas 456
Natalino Ronzitti
30 Demilitarised zones 466
Marco Roscini and Marco Longobardo
PART IX SUPERVISION AND ENFORCEMENT
31 The limited role of judicial dispute settlement 481
James D. Fry and Saroj Nair
32 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 502
Laura Rockwood
33 The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 529
Treasa Dunworth
34 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization: Preparatory
Commission 543
Jenifer Mackby
35 The OSCE 568
Maria Brandstetter and Lisa Tabassi
36 The United Nations Security Council and arms control: A failure of
responsibility 592
Mary Ellen O'Connell and Sawyer White
Concluding remarks 609
Eric P.J. Myjer and Thilo Marauhn
Index
