What is it about?
This article analyzes the virtual collapse of the global arms control regime and what needs to be done to reinvigorate negotiations on new arms control agreements. This requires the utilization of the best available research on the negotiation process in order to maximize the likelihood that successful agreements can be negotiated with key parties in a timely fashion.
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Why is it important?
The collapse of the arms control regime, and the addition of new weapons and new states developing major weapons systems (e.g., China, Iranand North Korea) make the negotiation of new agreements essential in order to head off and limit the rapidly developing arms race that now threatens global security.
Perspectives
This article is based on 50 years of my research in negotiation theory, interviews with arms control negotiators from many countries, and extensive documentary research on arms control in many global settings; from that experience I seek to derive advice about how to improve the process of negotiating new agreements on arms control and disarmament to head off what I believe to be the gravest existential threat, perhaps even greater than the challenging threat of climate change, to the security and even survival of our planet.
P. Terrence Hopmann
Johns Hopkins University
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This page is a summary of: Negotiations on Arms Control: Is There a Future?, International Negotiation, February 2020, Brill,
DOI: 10.1163/15718069-23031164.
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