Counterproliferation and Hegemony Versus Cooperative Security
Session 5
May 21-22, 2003
Meeting Notes (pdf 74 KB)—Summarized by Michael Kraig, Ph.D.
Michael Kraig, The Stanley Foundation
Baker Spring, The Heritage Foundation
Steven Miller, Harvard University
Jo Husbands, National Academy of Sciences
What role, if any, is there for cooperative disarmament, arms control, and nonproliferation in guaranteeing global peace and security? What is the nature of future disarmament and nonproliferation efforts? Have existing agreements been irreparably damaged, or is it still possible to move forward within existing legal and institutional structures? More generally, was it the correct strategy to combine vertical disarmament of the P-5, horizontal nonproliferation efforts, and economic development concerns within each of the global treaty regimes—the Chemical Weapons Convention, Biological Weapons Convention, and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty? Or should disarmament and nonproliferation goals be separated, both politically and conceptually?