Excessive military spendingreduces the available financial reserves for health,education, and other human needs. For poor countries, it increases poverty, unemployment, and destitution.It also strengthens dictatorial tendencies in politics and acts against democratic values. If we want to...

This volume presents a range of views on the current state of global nuclear disarmament from eminent scholars from India, Israel and France. Chapters present and analyse the relationships between India, Pakistan and the USA, Russia and the USA, the position of the EU and of Israel. The...

I State and Problems of Arms Control Today -- Arms Control and European Security: An Overview of START, INF, MBFR and CSCE/CDE -- German Views on Armaments Control Issues and Negotiation Approaches -- Strategic Arms Control and Military Security of Western Europe -- MBFR: Problems and Lessons --...

The causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation have received a great deal of academic attention. However, nuclear weapons are rarely discussed in isolation in policy circles. Instead, nuclear weapons are relevant as part of a category of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) that includes...