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This work demonstrates the link between military technology and conflict, which is more palpable in southern Asia than elsewhere, while suggesting that it must be approached in a more nuanced way than has been the case so far in discussions of the region.

In this comprehensive study, 12 experts describe and analyse the military budgetary processes and degree of oversight and control in eight African countries, spanning the continent's sub-regions. These analyses provide the basis for concrete recommendations to the governments of African countries and the international community.

The purpose of this book is to provide a picture of how governments discharge their responsibility to ensure effective control over arms exports. Individual chapters describe national efforts to control arms transfers, concentrating on the legal framework that exists to regulate arms exports.

This book is the first book to outline nuclear forensics in detail and provides a definitive guide to nuclear forensic analysis.

The defence industry was one of the pillars of the classic command economy system in Central Europe. Since the early 1990s the sector has gone through dramatic changes. This report describes how the defence industry adjusted to the changed political and economic environment in both the domestic and international context.

A collaboration by 12 authors from different countries, this text presents basic data on the energy resources in the Caspian Sea region, on existing and proposed energy pipelines, on the spread of radical Islam, and arms acquisitions and military spending by regional governments.

This book provides a comprehensive description of the global basing networks of the major powers, including their types, their locations and the politics and economics of their acquisition. The crucial link between arms transfers and the politics of basing is emphasized.

Aims to explain the network of international relations in Europe that have come about as a result of the events of late 1989. The book includes several important documents of the time as well as papers delivered by German politicians at Potsdam in February 1990.

This study focuses on the questions of when and how military intervention in conflicts can achieve humanitarian benefits. It uses the standard that an intervention should do more good than harm to evaluate the successes and failures.

This book is a comparative study of the disintegration of Yugoslavia and the USSR - as multinational, federal communist states - and the reaction to these parallel collapses of European and US foreign policy.

A detailed assessment of the conditions for security relations between Washington and Moscow in the post-Cold War era, focusing on the scope for the future co-operative management of common security.

This book results from a research programme jointly financed by SIPRI and the United Nations Environment Programme, and examines the way in which certain resource limitations, such as water, oil, fisheries, can lead to conflict.

This study presents different views on nuclear disarmament and arms control. It offers a brief history of nuclear non-proliferation policy and the nuclear test ban issue.

The Nobel Symposium on A Future Arms Control Agenda was organized by SIPRI to consider how arms control can contribute to creating a cooperative security system based on the peaceful resolution of disputes and the gradual demilitarization of international relations. This work includes proceedings of the symposium with comprehensive discussions.

in this book, experts describe how the framework for producing arms in Western Europe has altered in recent years, and how various actors-firms, governments, and unions-are adapting to the new situation.

The value of major conventional weapons imported by Third World countries between 1971 and 1985 was quadruple that for the previous two decades. This book gives a comprehensive overview of this trade during the period 1971-1985.

These essays examine links between the threats to humankind of military devastation and environmental exhaustion, focusing on the ways in which cultural norms concerning the environment have inhibited the preparations for, and conduct of war, and suggesting how such norms could be developed.

This text examines the proliferation of nuclear weapons and is intended for scholars and students concerned with strategic studies, peace studies and international relations, as well as consultants, journalists and policy-makers specializing in these areas.

Analyses the reasons for and the broad implications of the post-cold war reforms of arms and dual-use export controls within the European Union. This study conceptualizes the arms export policy process as a policy system, involving the interaction of three basic elements - the policy environment, policy stakeholders and public policies.

How feasible and how vital is the achievement of a meaningful test limitation treaty? This book presents a wide range of expert opinion.

Naval arms control has become increasingly prominent in recent years, but is usually studied from the perspective of Soviet-American relations. This book examines the subject from a European perspective.

This study explores the evolution of Indian defence policy since 1947. The author examines the domestic dynamics of the issue, concluding that India's defence policy is designed more as one aspect of the quest for great power status than as an attempt to acquire security at an affordable price.

Trevor Findlay reveals the history of the use of force by UN peacekeepers from Sinai in the 1950s to Haiti in the 1990s and examines proposals for future conduct of UN operations, including the formulation of UN peacekeeping doctrine and the establishment of a UN rapid reaction force.

Bringing together a variety of experts in business, government, and international organizations, this is a major new evaluation of the growing interdependence of the private and public sectors in tackling present-day security challenges.

Considers in particular whether arms procurement can become more responsive to the broader objectives of security and public accountability. This volume also includes case studies similar to the ones covered in the first volume that examined in detail the processes that lie behind arms procurement decisions in six arms-recipient countries.

This text looks at the arms procurement decision-making processes in China, India, Israel, Japan, South Korea and Thailand. It examines whether or not national arms procurement processes can become more responsive to the broader objectives of security and public accountability.