ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT

My focus on the issue of arms control and disarmament concerned mainly the institutionalised and negotiated arms control at the multilateral level within the United Nations system. Although this type of control mechanism, especially at the bilateral level between the US and Russia fell into a state of crisis in the mid 1990s. Despite this impasse in traditional arms control, unilateral disarmament continued to take place and even reached peak levels in the mid -1990s. Global disarmament has included arms decommissioning, force demobilisation, cuts in defence production, military base closure and redevelopment and reduced military expenditures. My work at the Bonn International Center for Coversion, especially with the annual Conversion Survey, was intended to contribute to arms control and disarmament.

Publications

Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung und Nonproliferation. Unilaterale Machtpolitik oder UN-konsensorientierter Multilateralismus (Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Unilateral Power Politics or UN consensus-oriented multilateralism). In: Helmut Breitmeier, Michèle Roth and Dieter Senghaas (eds.), Sektorale Weltordnungspolitik. Nomos: Baden-Baden 2009, pp. 31 - 50. publisher

Die Europäische Union als globaler sicherheitspolitischer Akteur: eine Politik mit problematischen Folgen (The European Union as a global security actor: a policy with problematic consequences). In: Hans J. Gießmann und Götz Neuneck (eds.), Streitkräfte zähmen, Sicherheit schaffen, Frieden gewinnen. Nomos: Baden-Baden 2008, pp. 147 - 158. publisher

Small Arms & Light Weapons, Non-Paper for the International Peace Institute, IPI Task Forces on Strengthening Multilateral Security Capacity, May 2008 full text

Europäische Rüstungspolitik - gibt's die? (European Arms Policy - does it exist?). In: Wissenschaft und Frieden, vol. 25, no. 4, 2007, 6 - 9. full text

Abrüstung und Rüstungskontrolle. Voraussetzung oder Folge von Deeskalation? (Disarmament and arms control as condition and consequence of de-escalation). in: Wissenschaft und Frieden, no. 2, 2005, 15 -18. full text

Conversion Survey (annual). Global Disarmament, Demilitarization and Demobilization, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 1999 - 2004. Co-author. conversionsurvey

Bonn International Center for Conversion. Conversion Survey (annual). Global Disarmament, Demilitarization and Demobilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996 – 1998. Co-author. conversionsurvey

“Noch über 16.000 Atomsprengköpfe einsatzbereit” (Over 16,000 war heads deployed). in: PM Magazin, October 2003. abstract

Reinvigorating Multilateral Arms Control. Briefing Paper 24, 2001, Brussels: International Security Information Service. (with Michael Brzoska). full text.

Die Zeichen weisen wieder auf Aufrüstung. Sicherheitspplitische Spielräume jenseits der Supermächte. (Signs for an arms race). in: Frankfurter Rundschau, 15 June 2001. full text

Practical Disarmament. BICC Brief no. 16, 2000. Bonn: Bonn International Center for Conversion (Editor).full text

Disarmament and Conflict Prevention in Development Cooperation. BICC Report no. 14, 2000, Bonn: Bonn International Center for Conversion. (Editor). summary

An Evaluation of the Second Year of Reporlting the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms. in: The Nonoproliferation Review, Fal 1994, 99 - 111 (with Edward J. Laurance and Christina K. Woodward.full text

Western Europe facing security and peace. A Europeanist perspective. in: Bulletin of Peace Proposals, vol. 17, no. 1, 1986, 1 11. Sage Archive Security Dialogue

Disarmament as a chance for human development. Is there a peace dividend? Occasional Paper, no. 5, 1993. Human Development Report Office; New York/N.Y.: United Nations Development Programme. full text

East-West trade as a source of tension. in: Journal of Peace Research, vol. 19, no. 4, 1982, 301-322.
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