Arms Control by Committee: Managing Negotiations with the RussiansStanford University Press, 1992 - 349 pages This book is essentially a series of case histories of U.S.-Soviet nuclear arms control negotiations, as seen from the American side. It describes the processes of governmental decisionmaking for arms control in Washington, D.C., and the techniques for joint U.S.-Soviet decisionmaking at the negotiating table. As general counsel of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and member of U.S. delegations to disarmament conferences for eight years, the author was in a unique position to assess the difficulties of fashioning an arms control treaty that could pass muster within the executive branch of the U.S. government, be approved by U.S. allies, be successfully negotiated with the Soviets, and then win the approval of the U.S. Senate. This process will be even more complex now that the United States will face at least four nuclear powers from the former U.S.S.R. The book has three purposes. The first is to add to the recorded history of the following negotiations: the Limited Test Ban Treaty of 1963, the Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968, the ABM Treaty of 1972 and its companion SALT Interim Agreements, and the 1987 INF Treaty. The author asks in each case, What did the president and his assistants do (or fail to do) to negotiate a successful agreement? The second purpose is to use the case book approach, common in law schools and business schools, as a teaching device for those who wish to learn how the American government made decisions about arms control negotiations, how U.S.-Soviet negotiators reached decisions, and what the results of the decisions have been. The book's third purpose is to generalize about what works and what does not work in the complex world of arms control negotiations, including information on the impact of negotiating committees and comparisons of the process for negotiating arms control treaties with that for achieving arms limits through action and reaction, without written agreement. The concluding chapter looks to the future: What changes will occur in the arms control process given the end of the Cold War and the disintegration of the Soviet Union? |
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... important to the success of the negotiations in a way that accounts written for historical purposes often do not . A third use of case histories is to generalize about what works and what does not . That is tricky business in arms ...
... importance to national and international security has been so great that many of those involved from the Department of ... important for the proposed agreement ; and the members of Congress most involved in reviewing defense budgets and ...
... important negotia- tions . They must provide strong leadership , particularly if there is bu- reaucratic opposition to their objectives . ” 5 Each of the case histories investigates the nature of presidential lead- ership of the ...
... important reason for going to the negotiating table . When agreement was the first priority , however , was such a position adopted without first exploring interests and alterna- tives with the Soviet Union ? If an exploration has taken ...
... important events leading up to the U.S. - Soviet negotiations chronicled here to put the negotia- tions in context.16 Assuming U.S. — negotiating partner relations have reached this point , usually some prenegotiation steps must be ...
Contents
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The Threshold Test Ban Treaty and Another | 49 |
The NPT Finally Brings Widespread International | 83 |
The ABM Treaty and an Opportunity | 106 |
SALT II Misses an Opportunity to Move | 132 |
The Decisionmaking | 168 |
The Negotiating Process | 200 |
Too Many Cooks? The Impact of the Negotiating | 214 |
Arms Control Without Agreements and | 235 |
Will the Process Change with the End | 255 |
Notes | 271 |
Sources | 315 |
Index | 335 |