Course description

Addresses the political, strategic, legal and humanitarian issues directing arms control and disarmament processes. The course examines conventional weapons (such as landmines, small arms and light weapons) and weapons of mass destruction (nuclear, biological and chemical weapons). Drawing on strategic analyses as well as on the range of international treaties, the course examines traditional and current ways of viewing these weapons, and looks especially at how the international community has sought to constrain or eliminate these.

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