Coordinating global and regional efforts to combat WMD terrorism / edited by Natalino Ronzitti.
Contributors: Ronzitti, Natalino.; Istituto affari internazionali.
Series: English series / Istituto Affari Internazionali -- 15
Publisher: Istituto Affari Internazionali
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rome, Italy
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
Subjects: Terrorism -- Prevention -- International cooperation -- Congresses; Nuclear arms control -- International cooperation -- Congresses; Weapons of mass destruction -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses
Description: WMD terrorism has become a real threat. Even the probability of terrorist organizations using fissile material to build a crude nuclear device is realistic. This publication looks at national and international efforts aimed at curbing WMD terrorism. It examines the different policies worked out by the international community: unilateral and multilateral initiatives, coalitions of the willing and the role of international organizations, both universal, such as the United Nations and the IAEA, and regional, such as NATO and the EU.  Unilateralism and ad hoc coalitions are seen as a means for complementing multilateralism and the work done by international organizations. Numerous policies have been devised and several actions carried out. This notwithstanding, international terrorism is still a threat, and a consensual policy remains difficult to achieve because of the North-South division on defining international terrorism, the main cause for the abortive attempt to draft a global convention. This publication is a follow-up to the conference on  "Coordinating Global and Regional Efforts to Combat WMD Terrorism", held in Rome on October 24, 2008. It is not a mere collection of papers, but provides thorough insight into the WMD terrorism phenomenon and can help to define further lines of action.
Notes: March 2009.

"This publication brings together the results of the conference on "Coordinating Global and Regional Efforts to Combat WMD Terrorism", held at Palazzo Rondinini, Rome, on October 24, 2008. The Conference was part of a programme supported by the Italian Foreign Ministry's Directorate General for Multilateral Political Affairs and Human Rights aimed at promoting the international debate and increasing public awareness of the main challenges to disarmament and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction"--P. 2.

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