Instructor Class Description

Time Schedule:

• Autumn Quarter 2008

Christopher D Jones
SIS 425
Seattle Campus

International Law and Arms Control

Surveys the political, legal, and technological history of 20th-century arms control agreements with emphasis on the treaties which ended the Cold War. Examines current issues of law, politics, military strategy, and technology in regard to weapons of mass destruction and related topics in international security. Offered: Sp.

Class description

SIS 425/SIS 525 will study the co- evolution of international legal agreements on armaments, mainly WMD and national security strategies during the Cold War and up to the present. The course will also study case histories of the relationship between international arms control regimes and 1) the development of technologies of inspection and verification; 2) militiary alliance systems; 3) related international regimes concerning energy and environmental issues.

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