SIPRI Monographs Success and Failure in Arms Control Negotiations

In this book the author examines the reasons why negotiations to curb arms have had so little success over the last 40 years, and provides an up-to-date survey of the problems and prospects for arms control at a time of renewed hope that governments can agree to disarm. Governments have been negotiating about disarmament, or more limited forms of arms control, for forty years. Despite these negotiations, weapons of increasing deadliness and sophistication continue to be developed. Through the use of case studies of particular negotiations (Partial and Comprehensive Test Ban, SALT I and II, INF and START, and MBFR/CFE), the book explores both the reasons for success and the obstacles leading to failure, and assesses the importance of different types of explanation. Dr Carter not only analyses the reasons why negotiations fail, she also examines the conditions under which they are likely to succeed. The result is a balanced comprehensive treatment of the problems and prospects for arms control.