Biological Warfare and Disarmament New

This book proposes fresh approaches and concrete proposals to overcome one of the most intractable security problems of the twenty-first century. Visit our website for sample chapters!

Susan Wright, a historian of science at the University of Michigan, is Research Scientist in the University's Institute for Research on Women and Gender.

Acknowledgments

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I. The Global Context

Introduction: In Search of a New Paradigm of Biological Disarmament

3

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Susan Wright

The Challenges of Biological Weaponry: A Twenty-First-Century Assessment

25

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Richard Falk

II. The Roles of Past and Present Superpowers

A Perilous Path to Security? Weighing U.S. ``Biodefense'' against Qualitative Proliferation

57

(20)

Laura Reed

Seth Shulman

Defense against Biological Weapons: Can Immunization and Secondary Prevention Succeed?

77

(26)

Victor W. Sidel

The Soviet Union's Offensive Program: The Implications for Contemporary Arms Control

103

(48)

Anthony Rimmington

III. Middle Eastern and Asian Perspectives

The Middle East: Integrated Regional Approaches to Arms Control and Disarmament

151

(30)

Laura Drake

Israel: Reconstructing a Black Box

181

(32)

Avner Cohen

China: Balancing Disarmament and Development

213

(26)

Zou Yunhua

India: Straddling East and West

239

(26)

P. R. Chari

Giri Deshingkar

IV. Disarming Iraq

The Coercive Disarmament of Iraq

265

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Amin Saikal

UNSCOM and the Iraqi Biological Weapons Program: Technical Success, Political Failure

285

(28)

Stephen Black

V. The Biological Weapons Convention

Geopolitical Origins

313

(30)

Susan Wright

The Compliance Protocol and the Three Depository Powers

343

(26)

Oliver Thranert

Secrecy in the Biotechnology Industry: Implications for the Biological Weapons Convention

369

(22)

Susan Wright

David A. Wallace

The Global Patent Regime: Implementing Article X

391

(22)

Biswajit Dhar

VI. Conclusion

Rethinking Biological Disarmament

413

(28)

Susan Wright

Richard Falk

Proposals for the Future: Strengthening Global Commitments to Biological Disarmament

441

(6)

Susan Wright

Index

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About the Contributors

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