The Politics of Weapons Inspections av Nathan E. Busch, Joseph F. Pilat

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<p>Given recent controversies over suspected WMD programs in proliferating countries, there is an increasingly urgent need for effective monitoring and verification regimes¿the international mechanisms, including on-site inspections, intended in part to clarify the status of WMD programs in suspected proliferators. Yet the strengths and limitations of these nonproliferation and arms control mechanisms remain unclear. How should these regimes best be implemented? What are the technological, political, and other limitations to these tools? What technologies and other innovations should be utilized to make these regimes most effective? How should recent developments, such as the 2015 Iran nuclear deal or Syria''s declared renunciation and actual use of its chemical weapons, influence their architecture?</p><p><I>The Politics of Weapons Inspections</I> examines the successes, failures, and lessons that can be learned from WMD monitoring and verification regimes in order to help determine h