International Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation.

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- CHAPTER ONE. International Cooperation on Nonproliferation: The Growth and Diversity of Cooperative Efforts -- CHAPTER TWO. The Multilateral Export Control Regimes: Informality Begets Collaboration -- CHAPTER THREE. Nuclear Nonproliferation via Coercion and Consensus: The Success and Limits of the RERTR Program (1978-2004) -- CHAPTER FOUR. Implementing Nonproliferation Programs: The Cooperative Threat Reduction Process in the Former Soviet Union -- CHAPTER FIVE. The G8 Global Partnership: A Glass Half Full -- CHAPTER SIX. The Proliferation Security Initiative: The Achievements and Limits of an Informal Approach to Cooperation -- CHAPTER SEVEN. UN Security Council Resolution 1540: Origins, Status, and Future Prospects -- CHAPTER EIGHT. Formal and Informal Mechanisms for Countering Nuclear Terrorism: The ICSANT and the GICNT -- CHAPTER NINE. The Nuclear Security Summit Experiment: Has It Been a Catalyst for Action? -- CHAPTER TEN. Cooperating Regionally, Denuclearizing Globally: Multilateral Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone Initiatives -- CHAPTER ELEVEN. Bilateral Cooperation on Nonproliferation: The Role of an Epistemic Community in Argentina and Brazil's Creation of a Joint Safeguards Arrangement -- CHAPTER TWELVE. Understanding the "Proliferation" of Nuclear Cooperation: An Alternative Theoretical Framework and Its Implications for Regional Efforts -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN. European and P5 Responses to Iran's Nuclear Program -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN. Conclusions -- Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)-including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons-rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however, states have created a number of other mechanisms for organizing international cooperation to promote nonproliferation. Examples range from regional efforts to various worldwide export-control regimes and nuclear security summit meetings initiated by U.S. president Barack Obama. Many of these additional nonproliferation arrangements are less formal and have fewer members than the global treaties. International Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation calls attention to the emergence of international cooperation beyond the core global nonproliferation treaties. The contributors examine why these other cooperative nonproliferation mechanisms have emerged, assess their effectiveness, and ask how well the different pieces of the global nonproliferation regime complex fit together. Collectively, the essayists show that states have added new forms of international cooperation to combat WMD proliferation for multiple reasons, including the need to address new problems and the entrepreneurial activities of key state leaders. Despite the complications created by the existence of so many different cooperative arrangements, this collection shows the world is witnessing a process of building cooperation that is leading to greater levels of activity in support of norms against WMD and terrorism. Contributors: Emma Belcher, Wyn Q. Bowen, Gavin Cameron, Francesca Giovannini, Michael Hamel-Green, Alan Heyes, Scott A. Jones, Togzhan Kassenova, Jeffrey W. Knopf, Alan J. Kuperman, Sara Z. Kutchesfahani, Tanya Ogilvie-White, David Santoro, Elizabeth Turpen.

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