Key Issues

Arms Control - Non-Proliferation

 

Literature

Alcaro, R. Europe and Iran's Nuclear Crisis. Lead Groups and EU Foreign Policy-MakingPalgrave Macmillan, 2018.

Alcaro, R., Peterson, J., & Greco, E. (Eds.). The West and the Global Power Shift: Transatlantic Relations and Global Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.

Blavoukos, S., Bourantonis, D., Portela, C. (Eds.), The EU and the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Strategies, Policies, Actions, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.

Quille, G., The EU and non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, in Biscop, S. & R. Whitman (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of European Security, Routledge, 2013.

Lindstrom, G. (Ed.), Enforcing non-proliferation: The European Union and the 2006 BTWC Review ConferenceEUISS Chaillot Paper, No. 93, 2006.

Schmitt, B. (Ed.), Effective non-proliferation: The European Union and the 2005 NPT Review ConferenceEUISS Chaillot Paper, No. 77, 2005.

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EU Links

EEAS - Non-proliferation, disarmament and export control

Information on the EU's objectives and instruments for tackling arms proliferation.

EU Strategy against proliferation of weapons of mass destruction

The EU's strategy to combat WMD proliferation is based on an effective multilateralist response, using international organisations such as the IAEA and existing treaties such as the NPT.

EU Strategy to combat illicit accumulation and trafficking of SALW and their ammunition

Strategy adopted by the December 2005 European Council, aiming to curb the spread of small and light weapons (SALW).

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Other Links

Groupe de recherche et d'information sur la paix et la sécurité

Le Groupe de recherche et d'information sur la paix et la sécurité (GRIP) is a Brussels-based think-tanks producing reports and analyses of contemporary issues of arms control, proliferation and terrorism.

International Atomic Energy Agency

Homepage of the IAEA, providing information and documents relating to the agency's work in promoting the safe development of nuclear energy and security.

Missile Technology Control Regime

Informal and voluntary association of countries sharing the goals of non-proliferation of unmanned delivery systems capable of delivering weapons of mass destruction, and seeking to coordinate national export licensing efforts aimed at preventing their proliferation.