Global Issues

The Failure of American Leadership

By: Malcolm Dando

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Hardcover | 3 August 2002 | Edition Number 1

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The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention entirely prohibits biological warfare, but it has no effective verification mechanism to ensure that the 140-plus States Parties are living up to their obligations. From 1995-2001 the States Parties attempted to negotiate a Protocol to the Convention to remedy this deficiency. On 25 July 2001 the United States entirely rejected the final text which would probably have been acceptable to most other states. The book investigates how this disaster came about, and the potential consequences of the failure of American leadership.

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List of Tables	p. vii
Preface	p. x
Introduction	p. xii
The Problem of Biological Warfare	p. 1
Developments in arms control before the BTWC	p. 2
Negotiation of the BTWC	p. 5
Verification possibilities	p. 15
Civil production	p. 19
The Chemical Weapons Convention and the Worldwide Chemical Industry	p. 23
The protracted negotiations	p. 26
Chemical weapons	p. 27
Production of chemical weapons agents	p. 29
The civil chemical industry	p. 32
Verification of the CWC	p. 33
The initial stages of implementation of the CWC	p. 40
Developing the BTWC, 1975-1995	p. 41
Enhanced consulation	p. 42
Confidence-Building Measures (CBMs)	p. 44
VEREX	p. 47
The objective of verification	p. 54
Genomics and the New Biotechnology	p. 62
The 'old' biotechnology	p. 63
Understanding the 'new' biotechnology	p. 65
The pharmaceutical industry	p. 67
The US pharmaceutical industry	p. 69
What is of concern?	p. 72
The Negotiation of the BTWC Protocol	p. 75
The structure of the negotiation process	p. 78
The strong conceptual differences	p. 94
Compliance Measures: Declarations and Visits	p. 99
The structure of Article III	p. 102
The associated annexes and appendices	p. 104
Follow-up after submission of declarations	p. 106
Summary	p. 112
The Debate on Visits	p. 113
The Ad Hoc Group beginnings	p. 116
Practical investigations	p. 121
Practice visits	p. 123
The process of erosion	p. 128
The Role of US Industry	p. 132
Alternative US viewpoints	p. 133
The pharmaceutical/biotechnology industry	p. 133
The Chairman's Text	p. 140
The composite Protocol text	p. 140
An assessment of the composite Protocol text	p. 163
The United States and the BTWC Protocol	p. 166
Fashioning US policy?	p. 167
The reception of the Chairman's text	p. 170
Renewed debate in the United States	p. 172
The 24th Session of the Ad Hoc Group in July 2001	p. 174
Futures?	p. 179
Epilogue	p. 181
The 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention	p. 185
Statement by the United States to the Ad Hoc Group	p. 189
References	p. 198
Index	p. 218
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