Bertsch / Potter Dangerous Weapons, Desperate States

Russia, Belarus, Kazakstan and Ukraine
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-136-05310-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 256 Seiten

With the collapse of the USSR, fifteen fledgling sates inherited a massive Soviet arsenal, unstable political systems, and desperate economies. A "sell everything" mentality threatens to result in the largest arms bazaar in human history, and this potential "fire sale" includes weapons of mass destruction. This book addresses the challenges the new independent states (NIS) of the former Soviet Union (FSU) face in controlling and monitoring their sensitive, military-related exports.Dangerous Weapons, Desperate States explores the various theoretical approaches that help explain the development of nonproliferation export control systems in the NIS. The contributors, coming from both the FSU states and the US, provide a broad range of perspectives on the problems posed by the threat of proliferation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bertsch, Gary K.

Potter, William C.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I. EXPORT CONTROLS, TRADE AND SECURITY
Gary K. Bertsch and William C. Potter--Introduction: The Challenge of NIS Export Control Development
Vyachaslau Paznyak and Anatoli Rozanov--NIS Security and Nonproliferation Export Controls

PART II. EXPORT CONTROL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEW INDEPENDENT STATES
Elina Kirichenko and William C. Potter--Nuclear Export Controls in Russia: The Players and the Process
Victor Zaborsky--Export Control Developments in Ukraine
Ural Latypov--The Belarusian Export Control System
Dastan Eleukenov and Keith D. Wolfe--Export Controls in the Republic of Kazakstan

PART III. PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF EXPORT CONTROL AND CURBING THE SPREAD OF WEAPONS
Maria Katsva and Derek Averre--Chemical and Biological Weapons Export Controls
Igor Khripunov--The Politics and Economics of Russia's Conventional Arms Transfers
Vladimir A. Orlov--Export Controls and Nuclear Smuggling in Russia
Alexander Pikayev--Russia and the Missile Technology Control Regime
Elina Kirichenko and Dimitriy Nikonov--Russia and the Wassenaar Arrangement: A New Multilateral Export Control Regime for Conventional Weapons and Dual-Use Items

PART IV. CONCLUSION
Gary K. Bertsch and William C. Potter--Conclusion

PART V. APPENDICES Office of International Affairs, National Research Council--Appendix I. Proliferation Concerns
Appendix II. Export Control Developments in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakstan

Über Autor(innen)

Gary Bertsch is the University Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Trade and Security at the University of Georgia. He is co-author of Arms on the Market: Reducing the Risk of Proliferation in the Former Soviet Union (Routledge, 1998), U.S. and Japanese Nonproliferation Export Controls (1996) and International Cooperation on Nonproliferation Export Controls (1994). William Potter is Professor and Director of the Center for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies and Director of the Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies.