Biological Warfare and Disarmament New Problems/New Perspectives

by Wright, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780742524682
• ISBN10: 074252468X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-10-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

This book proposes fresh approaches and concrete proposals to overcome one of the most intractable security problems of the twenty-first century. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Author Biography

Susan Wright, a historian of science at the University of Michigan, is Research Scientist in the University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	v
I. The Global Context
Introduction: In Search of a New Paradigm of Biological Disarmament	3	(22)
Susan Wright
The Challenges of Biological Weaponry: A Twenty-First-Century Assessment	25	(32)
Richard Falk
II. The Roles of Past and Present Superpowers
A Perilous Path to Security? Weighing U.S. ``Biodefense'' against Qualitative Proliferation	57	(20)
Laura Reed
Seth Shulman
Defense against Biological Weapons: Can Immunization and Secondary Prevention Succeed?	77	(26)
Victor W. Sidel
The Soviet Union's Offensive Program: The Implications for Contemporary Arms Control	103	(48)
Anthony Rimmington
III. Middle Eastern and Asian Perspectives
The Middle East: Integrated Regional Approaches to Arms Control and Disarmament	151	(30)
Laura Drake
Israel: Reconstructing a Black Box	181	(32)
Avner Cohen
China: Balancing Disarmament and Development	213	(26)
Zou Yunhua
India: Straddling East and West	239	(26)
P. R. Chari
Giri Deshingkar
IV. Disarming Iraq
The Coercive Disarmament of Iraq	265	(20)
Amin Saikal
UNSCOM and the Iraqi Biological Weapons Program: Technical Success, Political Failure	285	(28)
Stephen Black
V. The Biological Weapons Convention
Geopolitical Origins	313	(30)
Susan Wright
The Compliance Protocol and the Three Depository Powers	343	(26)
Oliver Thranert
Secrecy in the Biotechnology Industry: Implications for the Biological Weapons Convention	369	(22)
Susan Wright
David A. Wallace
The Global Patent Regime: Implementing Article X	391	(22)
Biswajit Dhar
VI. Conclusion
Rethinking Biological Disarmament	413	(28)
Susan Wright
Richard Falk
Proposals for the Future: Strengthening Global Commitments to Biological Disarmament	441	(6)
Susan Wright
Index	447	(9)
About the Contributors	456