Arms Control and Security: The Changing Role of Conventional Arms Control in Europe

Arms Control and Security: The Changing Role of Conventional Arms Control in Europe
Author: Kevin Wright
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1351753835

This title was first published in 2000: The aim of this text is to explore conventional arms control in Europe. The early chapters provide a primarily historical perspective, looking at the context, foundations, main provisions and institutional structure of the main agreements. The later chapters explore the continuing and likely future roles of the OSCE and NATO in the arms control process. The final chapters examine more contemporary developments by looking at the Adapted CFE Treaty and Vienna Documents agreed at the OSCE Istanbul Summit in November 1998 and the challenges posed to existing arrangements by the changing and emergent security threats that potentially face Europe.

Prospects For Conventional Arms Control In Europe

Prospects For Conventional Arms Control In Europe
Author: Joachim Krause
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 115
Release: 2019-07-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000308383

This study is an attempt to examine the political, military and technical issues as well as the opportunities and pitfalls associated with conventional arms control in Europe, providing a short outline of the developments that have led to the renewed interest in conventional arms control since 1985.

Conventional Arms Control And The Security Of Europe

Conventional Arms Control And The Security Of Europe
Author: Uwe Nerlich
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2019-04-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 042971324X

This book is an outcome of the conference on 'Arms Control and Conventional Defense in Europe' held in West Berlin in 1987. The discussion in the conference led to several conclusions regarding the prospects for conventional arms control.

Defining Stability

Defining Stability
Author: Schuyler Foerster
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 178
Release: 2019-03-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0429714181

This book analyzes the military situation in Europe and the contending views about the military balance and important military variables there. It provides very useful insights into what has often been a confusing debate about the true state of the military situation.

A New Approach to Conventional Arms Control in Europe

A New Approach to Conventional Arms Control in Europe
Author: Samuel Charap
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781977404459

Over 30 years after the end of the Cold War, military tensions have returned to Europe. Both the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and Russia are boosting their deployments in close proximity to one another and in multiple domains. At the same time, a host of new or dramatically improved conventional capabilities have been fielded, introducing a significant level of uncertainty into the security environment. Meanwhile, political and military-to-military relations are at a post-Cold War low, with communication as the exception, not the norm, and the structure of interaction created by arms control and confidence and security-building measures almost entirely collapsed. Through a combination of interviews, workshops, and structured analysis on the causes of potential conflict, the authors of this report outline new conventional arms control (CAC) measures to lower the risk of conflict in Europe. Although it once served as a cornerstone of European security, the current regional CAC regime is outdated and largely irrelevant to today's challenges. Rather than starting with the existing agreements, the authors begin with an investigation of the catalysts of possible conflict and build arms control policy options on that basis. How might specific changes in behavior, posture, presence, technology, or capabilities-and varying perceptions thereof-drive conflict? What capabilities or combination of capabilities are destabilizing, and why? And what CAC measures could be used to address these risks? The authors use the answers to these questions to suggest a menu of options for a new CAC regime that could address the regional security challenges of the 21st century.

Arms Trade and Europe

Arms Trade and Europe
Author: Paul Cornish
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1995-03-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781855672857

Focusing on conventional weapons, rather than nuclear, biological and chemical ones, this book draws attention to important differences, within the EU, between the trade in finished weapons and the technology used to make them. It examines West European efforts since 1945 to manage both sides of conventional defence-related trade, and the political, industrial, technological and conceptual obstacles to effective mulitlateral co-ordination and regulation. The book argues that, in current European and international circumstances, recent EU initiatives have limited prospects and may prove to be counterproductive.>

Conventional Arms Control in Europe

Conventional Arms Control in Europe
Author: John Toogood
Publisher: Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security / Institut canadien pour la paix et la sécurité internationales
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1988
Genre: Arms control
ISBN:

This paper sets out recommended options for initial NATO positions and tactics in the upcoming negotiations. It reviews past negotiations on conventional forces in Europe, highlighting developments that have significance for the new undertakings. It also discusses the mandates of the Conventional Stability Talks and the Conference on Confidence and Security Building Measures and Disarmament in Europe. The author also addresses the military and political factors which NATO must take into account when developing negotiating positions. Finally, the paper draws conclusions from the earlier discussion in this paper and sets out recommended Western negotiating positions, both substantive and tactical.

Conventional Arms Control and East-West Security

Conventional Arms Control and East-West Security
Author: Institute for East-West Security Studies
Publisher: Oxford : Carendon Press ; Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Total Pages: 544
Release: 1989
Genre: History
ISBN:

This important and timely work, prepared by the leading researchers, planners, and policymakers from both Eastern and Western alliances, analyzes the major issues in the Vienna talks on conventional forces in Europe involving NATO and Warsaw Pact nations. It is likely to have a significant influence on the course of these negotiations and on emerging debate on conventional arms control. The contributors met in Moscow prior to the Vienna conference to review and compare their analyses and revised them thereafter for publication in this work.