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The books
was produced with a financial assistance of the Dutch government
and distributed to the representatives of all member governments
attending the reviews conference of the Conference on Security
and Co-operation in Helsinki in March-July 1992. The book
received several very positive reviews in scientific journals
in different countries.
The book
is organised in seven parts and contains 26 chapters, the
Mosbach Memorandum and a bibliography compiled by Wim K. Meijer
(Amsterdam). After a brief preface and acknowledgements by
the editors Hans Günter Brauch (Mosbach, Germany), Henny
J. van der Graaf, John Grin (Amsterdam, Netherlands) and Wim
A. Smit (Enschede, Netherlands) part I on Political and Technical
Aspects contains four chapters by John Grin and Hans Günter
Brauch on "Introduction: controlling the development
and spread of destabilizing technologies -perspectives and
challenges for arms control and disarmament in the 1990s",
by Hans Günter Brauch on "Compensation for declining
defense investment expenditures in the Untied States: increasing
military R&D and arms exports", by Jonathan Dean
(Hamburg) on "Constraining technological weapons innovation
in the post-Cold War environment", and by Wolfgang Liebert
(Darmstadt) and Götz Neuneck (Hamburg) on "Civil-military
ambivalence of science and the problem of qualitative arms
control: an example of laser isotope separation".
Part II
on Controlling Military R&D contains six chapters by John
Pike and Eric Stambler (Washington, D.C.) on "Constraints
on the R&D and transfer of ballistic missile defence technology",
by Hartwig Spitzer (Hamburg) on "Constraints on the technology
contributing to militarization of space: the case of observation
satellites, GPS and communication systems - technical consideration",
by Pal Dunay (Budapest, Hungary) on: "Constraints on
the spread of technology contributing to militatization of
space: are they feasible, desirable and negotiable? The case
of observation satellites, GPS and communication systems",
by Erhard Geißler (Berlin) on: "Molecular biotechnology
and the third review of the Biological Weapons Convention",
by Ralf Trapp (then Geneva, now The Hague) on "International
constraints for chemical research and development: the prospected
Chemical Weapons Convention", by Annette Schaper (Frankfurt),
Wolfgang Liebert (Darmstadt), Wim A. Smit (Enschede), Boelie
Elzen (Nijmegen) on: "New technological development and
the non-proliferation regime. Re-directing and constraining
R&D: the case of laser fusion, laser isotope separation
and the use of highly enriched uranium".
Part III
on the Effectiveness of Current Control Regimes for Dual-use
Technologies includes three chapters by David Fischer (UK)
on: "The effectiveness and shortcomings of the NPT control
regime: IAEA, EURATOM and the 'London Suppliers' Club",
by Julian P. Perry Robinson (Brighton, UK) on: "The Australian
Group: a description and assessment" and by Robert Shuey
(Washington, D.C.) on "Assessment of the Missile Technology
Control Regime".
Part IV
focusing on the Assessment of National Implementation of the
Three Control Regimes has six chapters with contributions
by Harald Müller (Frankfurt on Main) on: "Technical,
procedural and legal lessons drawn from selected failures
in the implementation of the NPT regime in European nuclear
and non-nuclear countries", by Kyle B. Olson (Washington,
D.C.) on: "Industry and the implementation of chemical
and biological weapons control", by Michael Bothe (Frankfurt),
Raija Hanski (Finland), Thomas Kurzidem (Frankfurt) and Natalino
Ronzitti (Rome) on: "National Implementation of the Australia
Group export constraints and the national preparation for
the implementation of the CWC. The cases of Germany, Italy,
and Finland", by Jürgen Scheffran (Darmstadt), and
Aaron Karp (then Stockholm) on: "The national implementation
of the Missiles Technology Control Regime: The US and German
experience", and by Wolfgang Hantke (Bonn) on: "Stricter
controls on arms exports for dual-use goods: a case study
for drafting and enacting statutory regulations".
Part V
includes four chapters that deal with the International Conventional
Arms Export Regime with contributions by Paul Rusman (Leiden,
Netherlands) on: "A conventional arms transfer regime
in the European Community", by Paul Eavis (Bristol, UK)
and Owen Greene (Bradford, UK) on: "Regulating arms exports:
a programme for the European Community", by Michael Brzoska
(Hamburg, now at BICC in Bonn) on: "Assessing proposals
for a conventional arms export control regime" and by:
John Pike and Christopher Bolkcom (Washington, D.C.) on: "Prospects
for an international control regime for attack aircraft".
Part VI
offers in three chapters Southern Perspectives on vertical
and Horizontal Proliferation by Ravinder Pal Singh (then New
Delhi, now SIPRI, Stockholm) on: "Prospects of a conventional
arms export control regime: a Perspective from the South",
by K. Subrahmanyam (New Delhi, India) on: "Policy proposals
for controlling the horizontal proliferation of dual-use technologies
without undercutting the North-South technology transfer -
A personal perspective from India" and by Felix C. Calderon
(then in Geneva, Peru): "The control of dual-use technology
transfer".
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Language: English; Areas: military technology,
biological, chemical, nuclear weapons, missile defence, arms
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