Dangerous Weapons, Desperate States: Russia, Belarus, Kazakstan and Ukraine

✍ Scribed by Gary K. Bertsch (editor), William C. Potter (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 284
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With the collapse of the USSR, fifteen fledgling sates inherited a massive Soviet arsenal, unstable political systems, and desperate economies. A "sell everything" mentality threatens to result in the largest arms bazaar in human history, and this potential "fire sale" includes weapons of mass destruction. This book addresses the challenges the new independent states (NIS) of the former Soviet Union (FSU) face in controlling and monitoring their sensitive, military-related exports.Dangerous Weapons, Desperate States explores the various theoretical approaches that help explain the development of nonproliferation export control systems in the NIS. The contributors, coming from both the FSU states and the US, provide a broad range of perspectives on the problems posed by the threat of proliferation.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Praise for DANGEROUS WEAPONS, DESPERATE STATES
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
ACRONYMS
PART I EXPORT CONTROLS, TRADE, AND SECURITY
1 INTRODUCTION: THE CHALLENGE OF NIS EXPORT CONTROL DEVELOPMENT
2 NIS SECURITY AND NONPROLIFERATION EXPORT CONTROLS
PART II EXPORT CONTROL DEVELOPMENT IN THE NEW INDEPENDENT STATES
3 NUCLEAR EXPORT CONTROLS IN RUSSIA: THE PLAYERS AND THE PROCESS
4 EXPORT CONTROL DEVELOPMENTS IN UKRAINE
5 THE BELARUSIAN EXPORT CONTROL SYSTEM
6 EXPORT CONTROLS IN THE REPUBLIC OF KAZAKSTAN
PART III PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS OF EXPORT CONTROL AND CURBING THE SPREAD OF WEAPONS
7 CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS EXPORT CONTROLS
8 THE POLITICS AND ECONOMICS OF RUSSIA'S CONVENTIONAL ARMS TRANSFERS
9 EXPORT CONTROLS AND NUCLEAR SMUGGLING IN RUSSIA
10 RUSSIA AND THE MISSILE TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME
11 RUSSIA AND THE WASSENAAR ARRANGEMENT: A NEW MULTILATERAL EXPORT CONTROL REGIME FOR CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS AND DUAL-USE ITEMS
PART IV CONCLUSION
12 CONCLUSION
PART V APPENDICES
APPENDIX 1 PROLIFERATION CONCERNS
APPENDIX 2 EXPORT CONTROL DEVELOPMENTS IN RUSSIA, UKRAINE, BELARUS, AND KAZAKSTAN
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX