Research Handbook on International Arms Control Law

PART I ARMS CONTROL LAW IN CONTEXT
1 Arms control law and international conflict and security law 2
Eric P.J. Myjer and Thilo Marauhn
2 International law and international relations in arms control: The case of nuclear weapons 21
Paul Rusman
3 Technology and arms control law 40
Jonathan Herbach

PART II FORUMS
4 The League of Nations period 56
Alexander Orakhelashvili
5 The United Nations as a forum for arms control 67
Eric P.J. Myjer and Thilo Marauhn
6 The UN Conference on Disarmament 77
Judith Thorn
7 The European Union and international arms control: Assessing legal competences and instruments 89
Ramses A. Wessel

PART III REGULATORY APPROACHES
8 Prevention and prohibitions as elements of arms control 105
Dieter Fleck
9 Strategic trade controls 120
Daniel H. Joyner
10 Command and control as a subject of arms control 130
Barry de Vries and Rafael Lima Asche
11 Informal efforts 142
Mirko Sossai

PART IV NUCLEAR WEAPONS
12 Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons 155
Tom Coppen
13 Nuclear test ban 170
Masahiko Asada
14 Limitation and reduction of nuclear arsenals 187
Piet de Klerk
15 Nuclear security 203
Jonathan Herbach
16 Regulatory regimes for missile defence systems and fissile material 215
Hennie Strydom
17 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 235
Harald Müller

PART V BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS
18 The 1925 Geneva Protocol 250
Michael Bothe
19 The Biological Weapons Convention 258
Una Jakob
20 The Chemical Weapons Convention 278
Ralf Trapp

PART VI CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS
21 The CCW – a vital potential role 298
William H. Boothby
22 The Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty 314
Wolfgang Richter
23 The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 347
Stuart Casey-Maslen
24 The ENMOD Convention 359
Silja Vöneky
25 The UN Arms Trade Treaty: A breakthrough or with some birth defects? 377
Zeray Yihdego