A Diplomacy of Hope: Canada and Disarmament, 1945-1988McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1992 - 663 pages Setting their study in a broad international context, the authors present their account of the negotiations under the following thematic headings: the Atomic Energy Commission of the United Nations; the Commission for Conventional Armaments; the Disarmament Commission; talks on the Arctic and the de-nuclearization of Central Europe during the late 1950s and the early 1960s; the Ten-Nation Committee on Disarmament; the Eighteen-Nation Committee on Disarmament; the treaty on the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons; the negotiations on chemical and biological weapons, banning nuclear tests, and the prevention of an arms race in outer space; mutual and balanced force reductions; the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe; and the Stockholm negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament in Europe. The authors refer to the major bilateral talks between the United States and the former Soviet Union wherever these negotiations have a bearing on the issues in which Canada was involved. The English edition of A Diplomacy of Hope, a work originally published in French, was prepared by Derek Ellington. |
Table des matières
The Bees and the Ants | 3 |
Canada Caught in the Squall 19451952 | 41 |
The Pilgrims Staff and the Blind Mans Cane | 86 |
Things Told and Things Untold | 150 |
The Burns Plan | 160 |
5 | 170 |
From Dread to Denial | 195 |
Canada and the NonProliferation Treaty | 229 |
Canada and the MBFR | 422 |
Canada and the Military | 466 |
Assessment from a | 488 |
A New Bid in Madrid | 497 |
The Work of the Atlantic Alliance in Preparation for | 503 |
The 25 CBMS Studied by NATO | 522 |
Conclusion | 564 |
Appendix A Primary Sources | 577 |
Nuclear Weapons | 259 |
NonProliferation Treaty | 276 |
In Search of the Grail | 314 |
The Elusive CTB Treaty | 351 |
Canada and Outer Space | 375 |
Texts and Documents submitted | 589 |
629 | |
Index | 637 |
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Diplomacy of Hope: Canada and Disarmament, 1945-1988 Albert Legault,Michel Fortmann Aperçu limité - 1992 |
Diplomacy of Hope: Canada and Disarmament, 1945-1988 Albert Legault,Michel Fortmann Aperçu limité - 1991 |
Expressions et termes fréquents
ABM Treaty agreement allies Americans April armaments arms control ASAT Atlantic Alliance Atomic Energy August British Cabinet Canada Canadian Delegation Canadian policy CBMS chemical weapons Chiefs of Staff Committee on Disarmament concerned Conference Conference on Disarmament conventional CSCE DEA file December Department of External Department of National détente discussions document draft treaty E.L.M. Burns Eighteen-Nation Committee Europe European External Affairs force reductions France French Geneva Geneva Protocol George Ignatieff Group Helsinki IAEA Ignatieff inspection issue Jules Léger July June manoeuvres March MBFR measures ment missiles National Defence NATO negotiations Non-Proliferation notification November nuclear explosions nuclear tests nuclear weapons nuclear-free zone Ottawa Outer Space participating peaceful phase political position problems prohibition resolution safeguards seismic September Session Soviet proposal Soviet Union Stockholm strategic Subcommittee superpowers Test Ban tion troops United Nations USSR verification Warsaw Pact West Western zone