Arms Control Without Negotiation: From the Cold War to the New World Order
  • 1993/281 pages

Arms Control Without Negotiation:

From the Cold War to the New World Order

Bennett Ramberg, editor
Hardcover: $48.00
ISBN: 978-1-55587-376-9
Beginning with Mikhail Gorbachev's December 1988 announcement that Moscow intended to unilaterally reduce its conventional armed forces, the spotlight on arms control has turned away from negotiated treaties toward unilateral reductions, and there have been a number of reciprocal reductions not subject to negotiation.

While these initiatives appear novel, this book demonstrates that they are only the tip of a unilateral arms control iceberg. The authors argue that arms control without negotiation—broadly defined to include unilateral reductions to induce reciprocation, as well as unilateral military research, development, procurement, reconfiguration, and nondeployment—is as important as treaties, if not more so.

The authors discuss the utility of unilateral measures in inducing reciprocation, review the links between defense planning and unilateral arms control, address the domestic politics of arms-control issues, and consider implications for the future.

Bennett Ramberg is senior research associate at UCLA's Center for International Relations. His numerous publications include Global Nuclear Energy Risks: The Search for Preventive Medicine and Energy and Security in the Industrializing World (coedited with Raju Thomas).