Avoiding War in the Nuclear Age: Confidence-Building Measures for Crisis Stability

ISBN-13: 9780367008680 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 234 str.

John Borawski

Opis

Given the disappointing history of arms control negotiations and agreements, disconcerting trends in the balance of power, and emerging technologies that challenge conventional assumptions about deterrence, new ways to promote security through negotiations must be identified and utilized if arms control is ever to play an integral role in enhancing deterrence and reducing instabilities. Confidence-building measures (CBMs) may offer one way out of the contemporary arms control morass. Instead of focusing on limiting the number and types of weaponry, CBMs are designed to control how, when, where, and why military activities occur. By clarifying military intentions and regulating the operations of military forces in times of both crisis and calm, CBMs can help diminish the opportunities for war arising from surprise attack or from miscalculation, accident, or failure of communication. This volume assembles leading CBM experts from government and academia to assess the utility of CBMs in a wide variety of areas. It is intended to serve as a basic primer on the subject, as well as to contribute to the ongoing national debate over the role of arms control in strengthening national security by analyzing new and fruitful avenues toward that over-riding objective.

Spis treści

Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Overview -- The World of CBMs -- Foundations -- The Hotline -- The Accidents Measures Agreement -- Avoiding Incidents at Sea -- The Stockholm CDE Negotiations -- CBMs in the U.N. Setting -- Soviet Views of CBMs -- Futures -- Beyond the Hotline: Controlling a Nuclear Crisis -- CBMs for Stabilizing the Strategic Nuclear Competition -- Risk Reduction and Crisis Prevention -- An East-West Center for Military Cooperation -- The Limits of Confidence -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Appendix: A CBM Handbook