The Search for Stability in Russia and the Former Soviet Bloc
Studies in Disarmament and Conflicts:
THE DYNAMICS OF THE ARMS RACE
INTERNATIONAL TERRORISM AND WORLD SECURITY
ARMS CONTROL AND TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION
CONTEMPORARY TERROR: Studies in Sub-state Violence
THE HAZARDS OF THE INTERNATIONAL ENERGY CRISIS
THE ARMS RACE IN THE 1980s
SOUTH-EASTERN EUROPE AFTER TITO: A powder-keg for the 1980s?
REASSESSING ARMS CONTROL
THE ARMS RACE IN THE ERA OF STAR WARS
PERSPECTIVES ON THE ARMS RACE
THE ARMS RACE IN AN ERA OF NEGOTIATIONS
SPACE AND NUCLEAR WEAPONRY IN THE 1990s
CONTROLLING THE INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF WEAPONRY AND RELATED TECHNOLOGY
RISING TENSION IN EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
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Btu | British thermal unit |
CFE | Conventional Forces in Europe (Treaty) |
CIS | Commonwealth of Independent States |
CMEA | Council for Mutual Economic Assistance |
Comecon | Council for Mutual Economic Assistance |
CSCE | Conference for Security and Cooperation in Europe, now called the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
EU | European Union |
FSU | former Soviet Union |
GATT | General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade |
GDP | gross domestic product |
GDR | German Democratic Republic |
GNP | gross national product |
GWh | gigawatt-hour |
IFOR | Multinational Peace Implementation Force (Bosnia) |
IMF | International Monetary Fund |
INF | Intermediate Nuclear Forces |
JCG | Joint Consultative Group (of CFE) |
kWh | kilowatt-hour |
MIC | military-industrial complex |
Minatom | Ministry of Atomic Energy and Industry (Russia) |
NACC | North Atlantic Cooperation Council |
NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
OCCP | All-national Congress of the Chechen People |
OECD | Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development |
OSCE | Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe |
PFP | Partnership for Peace |
R&D | research and development |
START | Strategic Arms Reduction Talks |
Tcf | trillion cubic feet |
UN | United Nations |
WEU | Western European Union |
WMD | weapons of mass destruction |
WTO | Warsaw Treaty Organization |
Alexei Arbatov(Russian) is a Member of the Russian Duma and Deputy Chairman of its Defence Committee. He is also associated with the Institute of World Economy and International Relations, Moscow.
Georgi Arbatov(Russian) is Director Emeritus of the Institute for the USA and Canada, Moscow, as well as a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is author of The System: An Insiders Life in Soviet Politics.
Derek Braddon(British) is Research Director at the Research Unit in Economics, University of the West of England, Bristol.
David Carlton(British) (co-editor) is Lecturer in International Studies at the University of Warwick. He is author of Anthony Eden: A Biography and of Britain and the Suez Crisis. He is co-editor of 14 previous volumes in this series.
Herman De Fraye(Belgian) is Director of Protocol and External Relations for the Belgian Senate, Brussels.
Victor Gilinsky(US) is a former Commissioner of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
Paul Ingram(British) (co-editor) is a Researcher at the Oxford Research Group and an Oxford City Councillor. He is conducting postgraduate research in the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick.
Sergei Kapitza(Russian) is a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is also a member of the Council of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs.
Ruslan Khasbulatov(Russian) is a former Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, Moscow. He is now associated with the Plekhanov Institute, Moscow.
Sondra Z. Koff(US) is Professor of Political Science at the State University of New York at Binghampton.
Stephen P. Koff(US) is Professor of International Relations at Syracuse University, New York.
Alexander Nikitin(Russian) is Director of the Centre for Political and International Studies, Moscow. He previously served with the Soviet Permanent Mission to the United Nations in New York.
Andrus Park(Estonian), now deceased, was a member of the Division of Humanities and Social Studies in the Estonian Academy of Science, Tallinn.
Rita R. Rogers(US) is Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of California Medical School, Los Angeles.
Alexei Vasilyev(Russian) is Director of the Institute for African Studies, Moscow.
Lamberto Zannier(Italian) is Deputy Head of the Italian Delegation to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe. He was formerly Head of Department, Arms Control and Co-operative Security Section, Political Affairs Division at NATO, Brussels.
The International School on Disarmament and Research on Conflicts (ISODARCO) held Winter Courses in 1994, 1995 and 1996 to consider developments involving the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Many of the papers presented in 1994 and 1995 have already been published in