Bajema’s analysis, “Evolving Threats, Evolving Policy,” an occasional paper of CIC, makes clear the necessity for updating the various multilateral instruments that govern the threat of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon (NBC) proliferation.
Multilateral instruments for governing the threat of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons are out-of-date and must be updated, according to a new policy paper from New York University’s Center on International Cooperation (CIC).
Natasha Bajema, a former policy analyst at the United Nations’ Department of Disarmament Affairs, writes that current multilateral agreements were created to face threats of the Cold War era. Bajema, previously a research associate at CIC, is a Ph.D. candidate at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.
Bajema’s analysis, “Evolving Threats, Evolving Policy,” an occasional paper of CIC, makes clear the necessity for updating the various multilateral instruments that govern the threat of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapon (NBC) proliferation. Bajema stresses the inability of the existing NBC regimes to address current threats and identifies movement toward more flexible responses through a charting of U.S. foreign policy attitudes and various NBC regime reform proposals. The author’s prescriptions for adjustment are aimed at achieving multilateral tools suited to a comprehensive strategy for tackling to the contemporary, multidimensional NBC threat.
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