Security at Sea
Naval Forces and Arms Control
Published on 25. January 1990
Book
Hardback
320 pages
978-0-19-829130-5 (ISBN)
Description
Since the Second World War five navies are known to have acquired nuclear weapons, and naval forces and activities around the world have become increasingly important and dangerous. However, there has been no serious consideration of naval arms control for more than forty years. SIPRI gathered together a group of experts from eight nations to consider the problems of naval forces and the possibilities for arms control. This book is a product of that conference, and it presents for the first time a broad and detailed assessment of the dangers of the naval arms race, problems with arms control, possible approaches, confidence-building measures, and verification technologies.
Reviews / Votes
`As East and West move towards a state where the possibility of meaningful naval arms control talks can be undertaken, this book will be an important source for anyone involved in such discussions.'Navy International 'invaluable controbution to the discussion ... In Security at Sea, published under the auspices of SIPRI, he has assembled a most worthy collection of authors with an impressive degree of experience in the fields of both arms control and maritime strategy ... excellently produced ... hghly readable and very well illustrated.'
British Army Review, No.96, December 1990 'The tone is set by an excellent introductory paper by Fieldhouse himself, and the general quality of the pieces is high ... an excellent brief for students and policy-makers.'
Peter Nailor, Gresham College, Political Studies, Volume XXXVIII, No.4, Dec 1990
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
2 figures
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
663 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-829130-5 (9780198291305)
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Content
Part 1 Introduction, summary and conclusion, Richard Fieldhouse. Part 2 The case for naval arms control: naval arms control - history and observations, Jan Prawitz; US-Soviet naval competition - dangers and risks, Eugene J.Carroll; maritime change in developing countries - the implications for naval arms control, Derek Boothby. Part 3 Challenges of naval arms control: navies of the superpowers - the strategic background, Herve Coutau-Begarie; verification of nuclear weapons at sea, Herbert Lin; superpower naval arms control - practical considerations and possibilities, John Richard Hill. Part 4 Approaches to naval arms control: naval arms control and the new Convention on the Law of the Sea, Ove E.Bring; controlling superpower naval operations, William M.Arkin; naval nuclear arms control, Richard Fieldhouse; the seabed treaty and arms control, Jozef Goldblat. Part 5 Confidence-building measures: applying and extending the US-Soviet Incidents at Sea Agreement, Sean M.Lynn-Jones; a multilateral prevention of incidents at sea regime, Jan Prawitz; naval confidence-building measures - a CSCE perspective, Patrick Howard. Appendices:official Soviet and US views on naval forces and arms control, 1988; post-World War II arms control agreements relevant to naval forces.