Biological Warfare and Disarmament

by Wright, Susan

• ISBN13: 9780742524699
• ISBN10: 0742524698
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-01-02
• 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	p. v
The Global Context
Introduction: In Search of a New Paradigm of Biological Disarmament	p. 3
The Challenges of Biological Weaponry: A Twenty-First-Century Assessment	p. 25
The Roles of Past and Present Superpowers
A Perilous Path to Security? Weighing U.S. "Biodefense" against Qualitative Proliferation	p. 57
Defense against Biological Weapons: Can Immunization and Secondary Prevention Succeed?	p. 77
The Soviet Union's Offensive Program: The Implications for Contemporary Arms Control	p. 103
Middle Eastern and Asian Perspectives
The Middle East: Integrated Regional Approaches to Arms Control and Disarmament	p. 151
Israel: Reconstructing a Black Box	p. 181
China: Balancing Disarmament and Development	p. 213
India: Straddling East and West	p. 239
Disarming Iraq
The Coercive Disarmament of Iraq	p. 265
UNSCOM and the Iraqi Biological Weapons Program: Technical Success, Political Failure	p. 285
The Biological Weapons Convention
Geopolitical Origins	p. 313
The Compliance Protocol and the Three Depository Powers	p. 343
Secrecy in the Biotechnology Industry: Implications for the Biological Weapons Convention	p. 369
The Global Patent Regime: Implementing Article X	p391
Conclusion
Rethinking Biological Disarmament	p. 413
Proposals for the Future: Strengthening Global Commitments to Biological Disarmament	p. 441
Index	p. 447
About the Contributors	p. 456
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