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Featured Acquisitions - Special Edition Rusk Center Non-Proliferation Conference

The Alexander Campbell King Law Library presents this special edition of a selective featured acquisitions list in support of the November 12, 2010 conference Fallout: The Future of Nuclear Security and Non-Proliferation, sponsored by the Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law and the Dean Rusk Center.

Cooperating for Peace and Security

Cooperating for Peace and Security: Evolving Institutions and Arrangements in a Context of Changing U.S. Security Policy, Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010
KZ5588 .C66 2010 Sohn
This title attempts to understand - more than fifteen years after the end of the Cold War, seven years after 9/11, and in the aftermath of the failure of the United Nations reform initiative - the relationship between US security interests and the factors that drove the evolution of multilateral security arrangements from 1989 to the present. The editors take as a starting point the argument that this evolution has occurred along two major lines and within three phases. Either existing mechanisms have been adapted to address emerging threats, or entirely new instruments have been created and these changes have largely taken place within the timeframes of 1989 to 9/11, 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, and from 2003 to the present. Chapters cover a range of topics - including the United Nations, US multilateral cooperation, NATO, nuclear non-proliferation, European and African security institutions, conflict mediation, counter-terrorism initiatives, international justice, and humanitarian cooperation - examining why certain changes have taken place and the factors that have driven them and evaluating whether they have led to a more effective international system and what this means for facing future challenges.
Verification in an Age of Insecurity Verification in an Age of Insecurity: The Future of Arms Control Compliance
KZ5675 .O54 2010 Sohn
This title takes the reader into some of the most urgent arms control issues facing the world community, including the nuclear activities of rogue states and threats from sophisticated non-state actors. In the book, national security expert Philip D. O'Neill, Jr. identifies and addresses issues from the resuscitated disarmament agenda, from the comprehensive test ban to fissile material and biological weapons. O'Neill examines the need for shifts in verification standards and policy suitable for our volatile era and beyond it. He surveys recent history to show how established verification procedures fail to produce the certainty necessary to meet today's threats. Verification in an Age of Insecurity goes beyond a discussion of rogue states like North Korea to offer suggestions on how best to bring compliance policy up to date with modern threats.
International Law and the Proliferationof Weapons of Mass Destruction International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
KZ5675 .J69 2009 Sohn
This book is both important and timely. In it, the author leads the reader meticulously through some of the most intricate and urgent problems of national security, addressing the historical origins of our contemporary security problems and the most dangerous and provocative present threats to stability. Intended principally for lawyers (and providing a comprehensive, thoroughly-documented analysis of the principal international and domestic legal sources and texts), the work also merits a broader audience, for it parses non-proliferation and counter-proliferation policy with striking clarity, offering fresh insights and proposing novel solutions. It deserves a place on any informed citizen's bookshelf.
Maritime Counterproliferation Maritime Counterproliferation Operations and the Rule of Law, Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, 2007 
KZ5675 .A45 2007 Sohn
In free societies and global market economies, terrorism has its choice of carriers. Although the public tends to focus on air transport, seagoing craft are especially vulnerable in terms of security. Allen (law, U. of Washington), who is also a master mariner and academic maritime journalist, examines the risks of terrorism associated with the sea, including transport of personnel and materiel such as weapons of mass destruction (WMDs). He describes how deadly cargoes are developed by undeterrable or irrational enemies, security policies and practices now in place such as the WMD nonproliferation regime, multilateral counter-proliferation initiatives, the role of information and intelligence, the conduct of maritime counter-terrorism security operations, applicable international laws, preserving the rule of law in interceptions and boarding, and the compensation of the innocent in terms of state responsibility and liability.

 
The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider's Perspective, Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Law and Politics/Stanford University Press, 2006
KZ5680.41996 .H36 2006 Basement
 Having served on several US arms control delegations over the past 30 years, Hansen (international relations, Stanford U.) here shares the highlights of the negotiation and implementation activities as he witnessed and participated in them. His goal is provide insight for students of international relations and for those charged with formulating and executing US nuclear counter-proliferation policies.

 
Non-Proliferation Export Controls Non-Proliferation Export Controls: Origins, Challenges, and Proposals for Strengthening, Aldershot, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006
KZ5675 .N66 2006 Sohn
This volume provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary examination of the Multinational Non-Proliferation Export Control system and its future role and structure.Key features; Provides a timely assessment at a critical time for the MECR system; Discusses current criticisms of the system; Examines the implications of any changes to the system for those engaged in the production of and trade in high tech. goods; Highlights the advantages and disadvantages of the soft-law approach. The book will be an illuminating and valuable resource for students, researchers and practitioners working in this exciting and complex area.
Nuclear Proliferation Dynamics Nuclear Proliferation Dynamics in Protracted Conflict Regions: A Comparative Study of South Asia and the Middle East, Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2002
JZ5665 .K48 2002 Sohn
Examining the nuclear weapons policies of India, Pakistan, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, and Syria, Khan (American U. in Cairo, Egypt) asks what proliferation incentives are decisive in regions of protracted conflict. She contends that the most salient factor is a "higher-than- normal" probability of war. She creates a proliferation hierarchy of war probability and suggests that two-power, dyadic regions are more likely to move towards proliferation, while multi-power regions contain largely muted proliferation.
Nonproliferation Sanctions Nonproliferation Sanctions, Santa Monica, Calif: RAND, 2001.
JZ5675 .S69 2001 Sohn
The danger of proliferation-of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) weapons and missiles for their delivery-is appreciated by almost everyone. Since the 1970s, some of the most important instruments for combating this danger have been U.S. sanctions. Contents iclude the sanctions process, history and lessons learned, problems with sanctions, alternatives, recommendations, and relevant texts of U.S. nonproliferation Sanctions laws and Related Documets.