The United Nations and nuclear orders
This book examines actors, tools, and issues associated with the changing nature of the environment in which the United Nations operates; the ways in which it has responded and might respond to technological and political problems; and the questions and difficulties that arise for the world organiza...
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Tokyo ; New York :
United Nations University Press,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- The United Nations and nuclear orders : context, foundations, actors, tools, and future prospects / Jane Boulden, Ramesh Thakur, and Thomas G. Weiss
- pt. 1. Actors. The Security Council and nuclear disarmament / Ernie Regehr
- General Assembly majorities on the preferred nuclear order / M.J. Peterson
- The Secretary-General and the Secretariat / Randy Rydell
- pt. 2. Actual and potential tools. United Nations sanctions and nuclear weapons / George A. Lopez and David Cortright
- The use of force / Ian Johnstone
- Verification and compliance / Harald Müller
- Codification and legal issues / Lori Fisler Damrosch
- pt. 3. Looming threats, new challenges. Technology proliferation, globalization, and the role of the United Nations / Brian Finlay and Rita Grossman-Vermaas
- Dealing with extra-NPT actors and non-state actors / Waheguru Pal Singh Sidhu
- The international nuclear trade : harnessing peaceful use while preventing proliferation / Nicole C. Evans
- Nuclear proliferation and regional security orders : comparing North Korea and Iran / Amitav Acharya
- NPT regime change : has the good become the enemy of the best? / Ramesh Thakur.