What does the end of the Cold War mean for world peace? What kind of new world is being constructed out of the former East-West confrontation? The opportunities now exist to create a genuinely peaceful and just new world order. Paul Rogers and Malcolm Dando, widely respected defence analysts, show how this can be achieved.A Violent Peace begins by examining threats to global stability in the post Cold War era. It looks at the transformation of the nuclear arms race in the 1980s. Do the current arms control processes really curb the development and deployment of the new weapons or will the armaments momentum built up in the last four decades result in more pressure for proliferation throughout the world?Recent events have focussed on the spread of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons, ballistic missiles and area-impact munitions. As the East-West rivalries appear to diminish, will the industrialised countries of the North slip into a new pattern of confrontation, with the development of military force projection capabilities designed to 'keep the violent peace' in the Middle East and other parts of the Third World?Above all, in a world of finite resources and increased environmental limitations on economic growth, will conflict between the haves and the have-nots usher in a new world disorder just as the ending of the Cold War appeared to be offering a chance of international peace?The agenda set by the authors for coping with the challenges now facing the world community includes not only traditional security issues such as arms control but also the wider issues of poverty, the destruction of the environment and the North-South axis of conflict. The intense East-West confrontation over the past 40 years has dominated strategic thinking and excluded large sections of the world's population from consideration. It is now time to develop new thinking on international security to deal effectively with a changing but not necessarily a less dangerous world.

A Violent Peace: Global Security After the Cold War

History

Rogers, Paul

Dando, Malcolm

Military

Potomac Books Inc.

The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. From 1995-2001 the States Parties attempted to negotiate a Protocol to the Convention to remedy this deficiency. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states. The book investigates how this disaster came about, and the potential consequences of the failure of American leadership.

Preventing Biological Warfare: The Failure of American Leadership

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race responds to a growing concern that changes in the life sciences and the nature of warfare could lead to a resurgent interest in chemical and biological weapons (CBW) capabilities. By bringing together a wide range of historical material and current literature in the field of CBW arms control, the book reveals how these two disparate fields might be integrated to precipitate a biochemical arms race among major powers, rogue states, or even non-state actors. It seeks to raise awareness among policy practitioners, the academic community, and the media that such an arms race may be looming if developments are left unattended, and to provide policy options on how it―and it's devastating consequences―could be avoided. After identifying weaknesses in the international regime structures revolving around the Biological Weapons and Chemical Weapons Conventions, it provides policy proposals to deal with gaps and shortcomings in each prohibition regime individually, and then addresses the widening gap between them.

Preventing a Biochemical Arms Race

Kelle, Alexander

Nixdorff, Kathryn

Stanford Security Studies

During the last century, advances in the life sciences were used in the development of biological and chemical weapons in large-scale state offensive programmes, many of which targeted the nervous system. This study questions whether the development of novel biological and chemical neuroweapons can be prevented as neuroscience progresses.

Neuroscience and the Future of Chemical-Biological Weapons (Global Issues)

Reference

Covers the history of biological warfare, changes in the way biological agents are used, current attack scenarios, and how to prevent bioterrorism.

Bioterror and Biowarfare (World Issues Today)

Teen & Young Adult

Social Issues

Rosen Pub. Group

The New Biological Weapons: Threat, Proliferation, and Control

Politics & Social Sciences

Politics & Government

Lynne Rienner Pub

In an age where anthrax can be produced in a garage and multilateral agreements among nations seem ever harder to reach, the threat of biowarfare could rapidly spiral out of control. In this authoritative guide, international expert Malcolm Dando inspects the evidence rarely made available to the public, providing a comprehensive account of what biological weapons are and their prevalence throughout the world. From the history of biowarfare development programmes to the current state of weapons stockpiles, Dando takes care to include what he believes is necessary to reduce the availability and potency of biological agents in the future. Examining the backdrop of legislative wrangling and failed international agreements, this well-argued work interweaves politics and technology to reveal the reality behind this twenty-first century menace.

Bioterror and Biowarfare: A Beginner's Guide (Beginner's Guides)

Oneworld Publications

The discovery that Iraq had an offensive biological weapons programme prior to the 1991 Gulf War, and that the Soviet Union had continued its work on such weapons throughout the 1980s has provoked widespread public concern over these weapons of mass destruction. Official concern amongst Western states, for example, over the anthrax outbreak at Sverdlovsk, has been of long standing, and recent US statements have indicated that at least five and perhaps eight states have such weapons. It is also now known that during and after World War II, Britain, the US and Japan had major offensive biological weapons programmes. The problem of controlling the further proliferation of bioligical weapons is compounded by the weakness of the Biological Weapons Convention, and the revolution curently underway in biotechnology. This book attempts to provide the basis for an assessment of whether biological weapons, and the possibility of biological warfare, will be of increasing importance. The book reviews past biological weapons programmes and the implications of the growth of biotechnology. It outlines the origins and development of the Biological Weapons Convention, including the current attempts to determine if a verification system is possible. Finally, the problem of the control of biological weapons is set in the general context of the control of proliferation of advanced weaponry in the post-Cold War era. Malcolm Dando is the co-author (with Paul Rogers) of "A Violent Peace: Global Security after the Cold War".

Biological Warfare in the 21st Century: Biotechnology and the Proliferation of Biological Weapons

In today's chaotic post-Cold War world, industrialized powers face a dilemma. They wish to deploy military forces in peacekeeping operations without incurring or causing casualties. This has led to increasing interest, especially in the United States, in the possibility of employing new hi-tech non-lethal weapons. With the inevitable political pressures, it is to be expected that a growing number of non-lethal weapons will indeed be employed. But is it sensible for the industrialized world to introduce a new form of weaponry based on its present short-term technological advantages? This study argues that deployment of non-lethal weapons could raise many difficult questions. It concentrates on the threat that they may pose to hopes of securing effective international control over the proliferation of dangerous novel weaponry. Taking potential psychochemical weapons as a particular example, the book suggests that people might well end up with a new form of warfare, but not of the benign kind that advocates of non-leathal weaponry imagine. Malcolm Dando is the author of "Biological Warfare in the 21st Century".

A New Form of Warfare: The Rise of Non-Lethal Weapons

The Chemical and Biological Nonproliferation Regime after the Covid-19 Pandemic: Dealing with the Scientific Revolution in the Life Sciences

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

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