... of Concern, and Axes of Evil: Examining the Politics of Disarmament in a Changing Geopolitical Context Raymond Muhula The post–Cold War international system has witnessed the emergence of conflicts and greater challenges to global security. The growth...

... to struggle between traditional support for Israel and newfound support for Lebanese democracy. The international community should capitalize on Hezbollah's damaged public image following its 2006 war with Israel and pursue a multiparty disarmament effort, to include incentives for the major regional players...

... disarmament.23 Integration with global security initia- tives and developments could provide a reliable security guarantee allowing stability and sustainable growth in the region.24 Nuclear weapons free zones (NWFZs) have been attempted in Latin America and Africa. Uzbekistan proposed a similar zone...

..., Canada, and is affiliatedwith the Center for Peace and Disarmament at the Liu Institute for GlobalIssues, University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Small Arms and Regional Security in the Western Mediterranean: Refl ections on European Views...

...- istration to stiffen its attitude visvis the Albanians. By the end of 1909, the Ottoman authorities in Macedonia had abolished the Albanian political clubs, suppressed Albanian newspapers, and initiated disarmament of the Albanian tribes, except for those bordering on Montenegro. These measures...

... over from the Unified Task Force (UNITAF). This new mandate explicitly included disarmament and the establishment of a police force. The Bill Clin- ton administration enthusiastically embraced the resolution.12 The new UN mission was designed to help Somalis rebuild the country economically...

... the “responsibility to fix” of the twenty-first century. Copyright 2012 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2012 This essay was originally presented to the annual meeting of the Council on Christian Approaches to Defense and Disarmament, Fircroft College, Birmingham, England, 2–6 September 2011. Anthony C. E...

.... The General Assembly’s Resolution 57/337(2003) contains important recommen- dations in this regard, and we support these goals. Moreover, Greece fi rmly supports and participates in all disarmament and nonproliferation initiatives aiming at the development of a safer world, free of threats from all...

... work for women’s rights and nuclear disarmament. While her account does not always place her involvement in EGE and WMS activities in the larger context, does not clearly define the goals of these organizations for the less informed reader, and often fails to detail the role of the women’s...

... Commission One Year On,” Disarma- ment Diplomacy, no. 85 (Summer 2007): 26. 4. Sammy Salama and Heidi Weber, “The Emerging Arab Response to Iran’s Unabated Nuclear Program,” Monterey Institute for International Studies, Center for Nonproliferation Studies, 22 December 2006, www.nti.org/e_research/e3_83...

... to challenge the nexus between sanctions and disarmament . . . while I was in charge of disarmament. . . . This is not easy for me to say . . . [but] if sanc- tions worked for a while in bringing about compliance by Saddam . . . it has to be recognized today...

... disarmament in UNSC Resolution 1559, followed by Syria’s military retreat and the anti-Syrian triumph in Lebanese elections, compelled Hezbollah to join Prime Minister Sinyora’s government in May 2005. For the first time, the party contributed two minis- ters, aside from its influence over other Shiite...

... and announcing an inten- sification of its dialogue with the International Commission for the Disarma- ment of Northern Ireland.2 The fact that the IRA’s announcement was fea- tured by the website of the Basque provincial government in northern Spain was revealing, as the ETA is thought to have close links...

... the retreat of the Serbian armed forces while KFOR negotiated with KLA about what weapons the latter should surrender. That was not a negotiable issue to begin with. We all understood that the enabling UN resolution required total disarmament of the KLA and not its...

... is operational, this force can become the actual confidence-building enforcer of the EMMA. Arriving at such a threshold would ensure that elaborate confidence- building and crisis-prevention measures, which seek to advance regional disarmament as spelled out...

..., with international guarantees of the rights of all, and offers by the Cyprus government for total disarmament and an unbiased foreign policy were ignored. Moreover, since then-president Jimmy Carter appointed the late Clark Clifford as special envoy on Cyprus, fourteen other special envoys have followed to try...

... is concerned, the losses from current tension and poten- tial future conflict are enormous. Figures from the annual survey published by the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency reveal that the Turkish government annually spends roughly $6.6 billion on military...

... in the region out of security concerns. Less than three years later, Beijing dispatched once again a naval vessel to the Mediter- ranean Sea — this time to Syria, where the PLA Navy participated in interna- tional cooperation for disarmament. Based on the Framework for Elimination of Syrian Chemical...

... 2002. The authors are, respectively, the former director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and a former congressman and senior member of the House International Relations Committee. MQ 13.4-02 Veliotes 10/7/02 2:55 PM Page 13...

... by itself because it is written by an author who served as director of arms control and disarmament affairs in the Strategic Plans Division of the Joint Services Headquarters of Pakistan. In that capac- ity, he wrote not only his country’s comprehensive strategic policy review but the com- prehensive...