GS232 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: World Disarmament Conference, Nuclear Proliferation, Arms Control
Document Summary
Promoting international stability to reduce risk of war. Create destructiveness of war should it happen. Remove force as a way of settling conflicts. Verification measures in place to guarantee compliance. Part of increasing internationalization f control of use of violence. Attempts to ban crossbows in europe in the middle ages; gun powder in. Post wwi: disarmament approaches to fix the problems that led to wwi, 1932-4 geneva disarmament conference to control offensive weapons. Disarmament efforts have been less common historically, but record efforts took off after wwi. Lofty efforts in post wwi period to create collective security and stop war: league of nations collective security provisions, 1928 kellogg-briand pact outlawed war as an instrument of state policy. Trident nuclear submarines with intercontinental ballistic missiles. Goals of arms control in cold war and post-cold war era. Cold war arms control reinforced sovereignty and state control.
