Rethinking general and complete disarmament in the twenty-first century
By: UNODA, United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs
Series: UNODA occasional papers -- No. 28; UNODA occasional papers -- no. 28.
Publisher: United Nations
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York, N.Y.]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 94
ISBN-13: 9789211423143; 9789210584555
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Disarmament; Nuclear disarmament; Nuclear weapons; Conventional Warfare; Arms race; Nuclear weapons,
Description: "This publication's authors, who include some of the world's leading scholars, diplomats and activists on the topic, examine historic, strategic, humanitarian and economic aspects of general and complete disarmament to elaborate and elevate the case for prohibiting conventional weapons systems as well as nuclear weapons. The featured articles were originally presented at the seminar held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on 21 October 2015 entitled 'Comprehensive Approaches for Disarmament in the Twenty-first Century: Rethinking General and Complete Disarmament'. It was organized by the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and sponsored by the Permanent Mission of Costa Rica."--
Notes: "October 2016."

"United Nations publication sales no. E.16.IX.8"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Also available on the World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Foreword  -- Kim Won-soo; title: Preface --; title: Setting the doomsday clock back from midnight with general and complete disarmament  -- Kennette Benedict; title: Acknowledgements -- -- Part 1.; title: Historical and contextual overview --; title: Time for a discursive rehabilitation: A brief history of general and complete disarmament  -- Matthew Bolton; title: Legal aspects of general and complete disarmament  -- John Burroughs; title: Reconciling national security and general and complete disarmament  -- Marc Finaud -- Part 2.; title: Overcoming contemporary challenges to general and complete disarmament --; title: Creating disarmament synergies: The general and complete disarmament multiplier  -- Randy Rydell; title: Hard and soft linkages between nuclear and conventional disarmament  -- Paul Meyer; title: General and complete disarmament and defence policies  -- Alyson J. K. Bailes; title: Sustainable Development Goals: The need for peacebuilding and measures of disarmament  -- Richard Jolly; title: A circle that can't be squared: Broad-spectrum arms racing and nuclear disarmament  -- Jacqueline Cabasso and Andrew Lichterman -- Part 3.; title: The way forward --; title: Upholding the United Nations Charter and general and complete disarmament: The Costa Rican perspective  -- Maritza Chan; title: General and complete disarmament: The way forward -- Dan Plesch and Kevin Miletic.