International cooperation on WMD nonproliferation

Cover; Contents; Preface; List of Abbreviations; CHAPTER ONE. International Cooperation on Nonproliferation: The Growth and Diversity of Cooperative Efforts; CHAPTER TWO. The Multilateral Export Control Regimes: Informality Begets Collaboration; CHAPTER THREE. Nuclear Nonproliferation via Coercion and Consensus: The Success and Limits of the RERTR Program (1978-2004); CHAPTER FOUR. Implementing Nonproliferation Programs: The Cooperative Threat Reduction Process in the Former Soviet Union; CHAPTER FIVE. The G8 Global Partnership: A Glass Half Full.

International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)-including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons-rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however, states have created a number of other mechanisms for organizing international cooperation to promote nonproliferation. Examples range from regional efforts to various worldwide export-control regimes and nuclear security summit meetings initiated by U.S. president Barack Obama. Many of these ad