Handshake with the dragon: Engaging China in the biological weapons convention
Thesis/Dissertation
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OSTI ID:673862
The 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BWC) currently lacks procedures for verifying compliance of signatories; this shortcoming, in combination with advances in biotechnology and a changing global security environment have resulted in the continued proliferation of biological and toxin weapons (BTW). Efforts to strengthen the BWC with an inspection protocol have been hampered by disagreement over intrusive inspection and the threat it poses to national security and industrial competitiveness. Debate within the United States, however, fails to consider the impact of US involvement in the inspection regime on the behavior of signatories such as China which are suspected to be violating the treaty. Michael Swaine`s model of Chinese government decision making is used to evaluate reactions to three US policies toward BWC inspections. Research suggests that responsibility for BWC verification overlaps institutional interests and that US participation in the protocol may have a positive effect in the Chinese cost-benefit calculation of accepting inspections. Findings suggest that one way of encouraging nations such as China in nonproliferation efforts may be to push forward and accept intrusive inspections, with an understanding of their limitations and costs.
- Research Organization:
- Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 673862
- Report Number(s):
- AD-A--350672/XAB
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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