
Restoring Restraint
Enforcing Accountability for Users of Chemical Weapons
Centre for Strategic & International Studies,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 27. July 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
68 pages
978-1-4422-8077-9 (ISBN)
Description
In 2012, a 20-year moratorium on state employment of chemical weapons use was broken. Since then, there have been more than 200 uses, against civilians, military targets, and political enemies. These attacks have broken norms against the use of weapons of mass destruction and create a gap in the nonproliferation fabric-despite the robust international architecture of laws, treaties, agreements, and norms designed to restrain the proliferation and use of these weapons. Accountability for these recent attacks has been limited or nonexistent, which threatens the credibility of the nonproliferation regime and only encourages further use. Leaders must find the political and moral strength to use a full spectrum of tools to reestablish this system of restraint. By understanding the system-built on taboos, norms, deterrence, and a lack of benefits-and corresponding accountability approaches-military, legal, political, diplomatic, economic, and educational-leaders can utilize a menu of potential actions for building more diverse, flexible, scalable, and implementable options to hold accountable users of chemical weapons.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Washington DC
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
5 Color Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 281 mm
Width: 214 mm
Thickness: 5 mm
Weight
195 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4422-8077-9 (9781442280779)
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Rebecca K.C. Hersman | William Pittinos
Restoring Restraint
Enforcing Accountability for Users of Chemical Weapons
E-Book
07/2018
1st Edition
Centre for Strategic & International Studies,U.S.
€45.99
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Rebecca K.C. Hersman | William Pittinos
Restoring Restraint
Enforcing Accountability for Users of Chemical Weapons
E-Book
07/2018
1st Edition
Centre for Strategic & International Studies,U.S.
€45.99
Available for download
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Rebecca K.C. Hersman is director of the Project on Nuclear Issues and senior adviser with the International Security Program at CSIS. William Pittinos is a research associate with the Project on Nuclear Issues at CSIS.