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Disarming Iraq
Author | : Hans Blix |
Publisher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2004-03-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0375423230 |
The war against Iraq divided opinion throughout the world and generated a maelstrom of spin and counterspin. The man at the eye of the storm, and arguably the only key player to emerge from it with his integrity intact, was Hans Blix, head of the UN weapons inspection team. This is Dr. Blix’s account of what really happened during the months leading up to the declaration of war in March 2003. In riveting descriptions of his meetings with Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and Kofi Annan, he conveys the frustrations, the tensions, the pressure and the drama as the clock ticked toward the fateful hour. In the process, he asks the vital questions about the war: Was it inevitable? Why couldn’t the U.S. and UK get the backing of the other member states of the UN Security Council? Did Iraq have weapons of mass destruction? What does the situation in Iraq teach us about the propriety and efficacy of policies of preemptive attack and unilateral action? Free of the agendas of politicians and ideologues, Blix is the plainspoken, measured voice of reason in the cacophony of debate about Iraq. His assessment of what happened is invaluable in trying to understand both what brought us to the present state of affairs and what we can learn as we try to move toward peace and security in the world after Iraq.
The Politics of Weapons Inspections
Author | : Nathan E. Busch |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2017-03-21 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1503601625 |
Given recent controversies over suspected WMD programs in proliferating countries, there is an increasingly urgent need for effective monitoring and verification regimes—the international mechanisms, including on-site inspections, intended in part to clarify the status of WMD programs in suspected proliferators. Yet the strengths and limitations of these nonproliferation and arms control mechanisms remain unclear. How should these regimes best be implemented? What are the technological, political, and other limitations to these tools? What technologies and other innovations should be utilized to make these regimes most effective? How should recent developments, such as the 2015 Iran nuclear deal or Syria's declared renunciation and actual use of its chemical weapons, influence their architecture? The Politics of Weapons Inspections examines the successes, failures, and lessons that can be learned from WMD monitoring and verification regimes in order to help determine how best to maintain and strengthen these regimes in the future. In addition to examining these regimes' technological, political, and legal contexts, Nathan E. Busch and Joseph F. Pilat reevaluate the track record of monitoring and verification in the historical cases of South Africa, Libya, and Iraq; assess the prospects of using these mechanisms in verifying arms control and disarmament; and apply the lessons learned from these cases to contemporary controversies over suspected or confirmed programs in North Korea, Iran, and Syria. Finally, they provide a forward-looking set of policy recommendations for the future.
The Search For Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction
Author | : Graham S. Pearson |
Publisher | : Palgrave Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781349521494 |
This authoritative account explores the facts that lie behind the Weapons of Mass Destruction programmes in Iraq. Graham Pearson shows how these programmes were gradually uncovered through the efforts of UN specialist exerts, then by UNSCOM and UNMOVIC and finally by the Iraq Survey Group. The book analyses why there was no stockpile of chemical or biological weapons to be found in Iraq. Finally, it examines the lessons for inspection, verification and non-proliferation in the chemical and biological weapons prohibition regimes.
Intelligence and National Security Policymaking on Iraq
Author | : James P. Pfiffner |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781603440677 |
"Drawing on the unusually extensive official documentation that has emerged through multiple inquiries on both sides of the Atlantic, as well as insider accounts of CIA deliberations, the contributors to this volume offer careful and insightful analyses of the national security decision-making process, the foreign policy roles of the President and Prime Minister, the roles of Congress and Parliament, the management and limits of intelligence, the shaping of public opinion, and the ethics of humanitarian military intervention. The book also discusses the dilemmas faced by Australia, a junior ally in the War on Terror, and their implications for Australian intelligence."--BOOK JACKET.
Encyclopedia of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security
Author | : K. Lee Lerner |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Espionage |
ISBN | : 9780787676865 |
Encyclopedia of espionage, intelligence and security (GVRL)
Germ Gambits
Author | : Amy Smithson |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2011-07-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0804775532 |
This book tells the tale of how international inspectors beat incredible odds to unveil Iraq's covert bioweapons program, draws lessons from this experience that should be applied to help arrest future bioweapons programs, places the Iraq bioweapons saga in the context of other manmade biological risks, and makes recommendations to reduce those perils.
Frontier Justice
Author | : Scott Ritter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781893956476 |
"Former U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter analyzes the overall strategy of the Bush presidency - national security through global domination - and the "Big Lie" he used to sell his brand of frontier justice to the world."--BOOK JACKET.
Combating Proliferation
Author | : Jason D. Ellis |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2007-02-23 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1421402637 |
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title The intelligence community's flawed assessment of Iraq's weapons systems—and the Bush administration's decision to go to war in part based on those assessments—illustrates the political and policy challenges of combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In this comprehensive assessment, defense policy specialists Jason Ellis and Geoffrey Kiefer find disturbing trends in both the collection and analysis of intelligence and in its use in the development and implementation of security policy. Analyzing a broad range of recent case studies—Pakistan's development of nuclear weapons, North Korea's defiance of U.N. watchdogs, Russia's transfer of nuclear and missile technology to Iran and China's to Pakistan, the Soviet biological warfare program, weapons inspections in Iraq, and others—the authors find that intelligence collection and analysis relating to WMD proliferation are becoming more difficult, that policy toward rogue states and regional allies requires difficult tradeoffs, and that using military action to fight nuclear proliferation presents intractable operational challenges. Ellis and Kiefer reveal that decisions to use—or overlook—intelligence are often made for starkly political reasons. They document the Bush administration's policy shift from nonproliferation, which emphasizes diplomatic tools such as sanctions and demarches, to counterproliferation, which at times employs interventionist and preemptive actions. They conclude with cogent recommendations for intelligence services and policy makers.