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Book Review: New Chemical Weapons Convention: Implementation And Prospects, David A. Koplow
Book Review: New Chemical Weapons Convention: Implementation And Prospects, David A. Koplow
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Review of The New Chemical Weapons Convention: Implementation and Prospects by Michael Bothe, Natalino Ronzitti, and Allan Rosas (1998).
This book, a fine-grained, expert-level analysis of several of the most intricate legal and policy issues arising in connection with the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), also serves as a vivid symbol of the "coming of age" of arms control. For all their strategic significance and political innovation, earlier generations of arms control treaties--bilateral or multilateral, concerning nuclear, chemical, biological, or other weapons--could not plausibly have spawned this type of 600-page exegesis or inspired the painstaking, inch-by-inch explorations presented in its …