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External threats and state support for arms control

Journal of Peace Research, 2023
The successful closure of arms control negotiations today is conditional on the commitment of many more states than during the Cold War. The question of what determines states’ positions on arms control has therefore become increasingly relevant ...
Tobias Risse
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Mutually assured surveillance at risk: Anti-satellite weapons and cold war arms control

The Journal of Strategic Studies, 2022
In the early 1970s, Moscow and Washington had established a satellite verification regime to monitor arms control treaty compliance. Satellites had become a primary source of transparency and stability in superpower relations. Yet by the end of the 1970s,
A. Bateman
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Arms Control as Wedge Strategy: How Arms Limitation Deals Divide Alliances

International Security, 2021
Strategic arms control is in crisis. The United States and Russia have retreated from agreements that formed the framework for post–Cold War arms cuts and strategic stability, such as the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, the Treaty on Conventional Armed ...
T. Crawford, Khang X. Vu
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Arms Control

2018
Abstract Arms control attempts to manage the acquisition and use of weapons in international politics, with the goal of preventing the outbreak of war and limiting war’s brutality. Yet experts debate whether arms control can meet these goals in practice.
Jennifer L. Erickson
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Rethinking Nuclear Arms Control

The Washington quarterly, 2020
Where is nuclear arms control—negotiated restraints on the deadliest weapons of mass destruction—headed? This 50-year tool of US national security policy is currently under attack.
R. Gottemoeller
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The Strategies of ROK’s DEFENSE REFORM with Special Reference to the Peace Process and Arms Control

, 2020
Purpose: The purpose of this article is to analyze the constraints of defense reform of previous governments and to suggest alternatives in connection with future arms control and the peace process on the Korean Peninsula.
Lee， Sang Soo
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The Arms Trade and Arms Control

The Economic Journal, 1995
This paper constructs a dynamic model of the arms trade in which there are a small number of suppliers who care about the profits from the trade and the security consequences of the sale; and a large number of interacting buyers who are concerned about their security relative to regional rivals.
Levine, Paul, Smith, Ron
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Why Arms Control Is So Rare

American Political Science Review, 2019
Arming is puzzling for the same reason war is: it produces outcomes that could instead be realized through negotiation, without the costly diversion of resources arming entails.
A. Coe, Jane Vaynman
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The Institutional Design of Arms Control Agreements

Foreign Policy Analysis, 2016
The question of international cooperation on nuclear security presents states with a conundrum. While states are wary of the potential for cheating and opportunism that would favor more legalized agreements, highly legalized agreements also create the ...
S. Kreps
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Long-term implant of intramuscular sensors and nerve transfers for wireless control of robotic arms in above-elbow amputees

Science Robotics, 2019
The use of implantable myoelectric sensors showed substantial improvements in prosthetic function of above-elbow amputees. Targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) amplifies the electrical activity of nerves at the stump of amputees by redirecting them in ...
S. Salminger, A. Sturma, C. Hofer, Melissa Evangelista, Mike Perrin, Konstantin Bergmeister, Aidan D. Roche, T. Hasenoehrl, Hans Dietl, D. Farina, O. Aszmann   +10 more
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