1st Edition

Repairing the Regime Preventing the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction

Edited By Joseph Cirincione Copyright 2000

    The proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD) poses the single greatest threat to the national security of the United States. As Secretary of State Madeleine Albright has noted, The greatest threat to our society at the moment are the weapons of mass destruction. Those are the weapons that know no boundaries. Yet efforts to stem the spread of these weapons suffered serious setbacks during the past year. Every week brought news of Iranian and North Korean missile tests; of the possible terrorist use of deadly biological and chemical agents; and, most dramatically, of nuclear tests in the deserts and mountains of South Asia. There has never been a better time for a new, comprehensive review of the troubled state of the international non-proliferation regime along with credible solutions for today's most pressing proliferation problems. Repairing the Regime, is just such a book. In early 1999, 450 experts from 17 nations attended the Carnegie International Non-Proliferation Conference in Washington DC, the most important annual gathering in the non-proliferation field. This collection reflects their passionate debates on the key issues, trends, and dilemmas facing all of us today. It provides strong arguments for both marshaling international resources to repair and sustain the global non-proliferation regime and for dealing concretely with the particular security concerns of the nations and regions most affected by contemporary threats. Repairing the Regime looks at a multitude of strategies for strengthening controls on WMD and increasing security around the world.

    1: Global Assessment; 1: Historical Overview and Introduction; 2: The State of the Regime 1; 3: Post-Cold War Nuclear Challenges; 4: Proliferation Challenges 1; 2: Russia; 5: The Crisis in Russia's Nuclear Cities; 6: Deadlock in the Strategic Reductions Process: A Russian Perspective; 7: A Detailed Analysis of the Urgently Needed New Steps to Control Warheads and Fissile Material 1; 3: Asia; 8: China's Perspective on Non-Proliferation; 9: Nuclear Relations in South Asia 1; 10: The Economic Impacts of the Glenn Amendment: Lessons from India and Pakistan; 4: The Middle East; 11: Inspecting Iraq; 12: Iran - Russia Missile Cooperation; 13: Middle East Arms Control and Regional Security Dilemmas; 5: Internationallaw and Agreements; 14: Can the Missile Technology Control Regime Be Repaired?; 15: Chemical and Biological Weapons; 16: A Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty and the Future of Nuclear Arms Control 1; 17: Next Steps in Strategic Reductions; 18: Constructing a New Agenda

    Biography

    Joseph Cirincione is Director of the Non-Proliferation Project at the Carnegie Endowment for Peace, and has written for the Boston Globe, The Washington Quarterly, The New York Times, Current History, and Foreign Policy.

    "Editor Joseph Cirincione presents a comprehensive collection of essays on the current state of global nonproliferation efforts, bringing together an impressively diverse range of viewpoints from experts around the world... Comined with the highly useful empirical data provided in the appendices and tables, the informed perspectives of the contributers make the book a worthy read." -- Journal of International Law and Politics
    "An important book with contributions by the world's leading authorities on proliferation and arms control. Packed with creative analysis and usable policy recommendations, Repairing the Regime will be of interest to scholars and practitioners alike." -- Jessica Stern, Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University and author of The Ultimate Terrorists
    "Repairing the Regime is an invaluable resource and timely contribution to the range of troubling proliferation issues and strategies for addressing them offering a rich representation of official and well-informed NGO analyses at a time when the entire regime is at a crossroads." -- Robert Manning, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
    "...the effort here is comprehensive and valiant." -- The Key reporter-Phi Beta Kappa
    "Rice provides enjoyable reading and interesting information in compact form." -- Peter C. Nadig, Department of Ancient History, RWTH-Aachen, Germany