Not Your Father’s Arms Control: Challenges for Stabilizing Military Confrontation in Europe Background The old arms control framework between Russia and the West does not work any more. The erosion of central arms control treaties has led to new tensions between NATO and Moscow. A new approach aimed at reducing tensions in Europe must take into account that central geopolitical coordinates have changed, and that new weapon technologies are rendering the old arms control paradigms obsolete. By Igor Istomin
WMDFZ conference idea: What isn’t working, why, and what might have a chance "At the heart of the problem is the existence of two competing logics for how arms control discussions in the Middle East should proceed: immediate focus on the elimination of Israel’s assumed nuclear weapons (Egypt’s view), or dealing first with the very problematic context of inter-state relations in the Middle East, creating essential channels of communication and dialogue, and establishing a basis of mutual confidence and trust (Israel’s view)." By Emily B. Landau
Strengthening legitimacy and political will for nuclear trade controls Besides threats to effectiveness, the multilateral export control system for nuclear weapons faces a separate challenge of political will and legitimacy. By Mark Hibbs
Assessing the Need to Regulate U.S. Conventional Prompt Global Strike Systems The United States intent to deploy a new Conventional Prompt Global Strike (CPGS). This short paper assesses the chief challenges the United States faces in allaying Russian concerns about about CPGS deployments. By Dennis M. Gormley
Weapons development and harmful arms proliferation Ben Coetzee reminds "that the proliferation of Small Arms and Light Weapons were left unchecked and unregulated until it reached a point where it is costing the world billions of dollars to mitigate the damage caused by these weapons." By Ben Coetzee
Pursuing an Improved Nuclear Order in Difficult Times The global system of nuclear security has many gaps and weaknesses. Des Browne points out why Russia is a key player and what needs to be concentrated on at the Nuclear Security Summit in the Netherlands in 2014. By Des Browne
The Future Of Arms Control Dossier: The Heinrich Böll Foundation in Berlin held an international expert conference on the “Future of Arms Control”, jointly organized with the German Institute for International and Security Affairs and the Institute for Peace Research and Security Studies (IFSH) at the University of Hamburg. We are now pleased to publish the conference proceedings.
Missiles and Related CSBMs/Reductions as Bridge-builders at the Helsinki Conference "In May 2010, the 189 members of the Review Conference to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons endorsed holding a Middle East Conference (MEC) in 2012 whose aim would be to create a zone in the Middle East 'free of nuclear weapons and all other weapons of destruction' (WMD)." By Bernd W. Kubbig
The evolution of arms control: A longer-term perspective "At its simplest, evolution in this field seems to be responsive to two sets of forces in the environment: the economics of fear and the economics of economics." By Alyson JK Bailes
Approaches to arms control with armed non-state actors Dealing with Non-stated armed groups (NSAGs) is a highly complex job. For that reason, this article tries to conceptualize the special arms issue and deliver internvetion points. By Marc Kösling
