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  • Bridging the Gap:  Light and Major Conventional Weapons in Recent Conflicts 
    This paper, prepared by Natalie Goldring (with research assistance from Susannah Dyer, Joel Johnston, and Alexander Chloros) for the Annual Meeting of the International Studies Association, examines the roles of light and major conventional weapons in recent conflicts and stresses the importance of addressing the entire range used in such conflicts when formulating policy proposals. In HTML format. 18 March 1997
  • NATO Expansion:  Time to Reconsider 
    This special report, written by Tasos Kokkinides from BASIC and Martin Butcher from the Centre for European Security and Disarmament (CESD), argues that NATO should conduct a cost-benefit analysis of expansion and that alternatives to NATO Enlargement should be explored. 25 November 1996

    "For those interested in just how ruinous NATO membership will be for the new members, there is the special report NATO Expansion: Time to Reconsider." "The Last Empire," by Gore Vidal, Vanity Fair, November 1997, p.220.

  • Current Projects on Light Weapons 
    This guide contains descriptions of projects and contact information for more than 40 organizations and individuals working on light weapons issues. Project on Light Weapons Working Paper #1, February 1996 NOTE:  For current information, please go to IANSA's Web Site
  • Light Weapons Manufacture in the Public and Private Sectors: A View From Pakistan 
    This paper studies the management of light weapons manufacture in both the public and private sectors in Pakistan, and offers policy recommendations. Project on Light Weapons Working Paper #2, February 1996
  • Study on NATO Enlargement: Destabilizing Europe 
    This report analyses NATO's enlargement study concluding that it addresses neither the security risks nor the costs involved with NATO expansion. A joint publication of BASIC and the Centre for European Security and Disarmament. Not available on the web. Issues in European Security, #3; Report 95.2
  • Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty:  Now or Never 
    The eighth and final report in the series published by the Acronym Consortium. This report gives an overview of the 1995 session of negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, with particular emphasis on the state of negotiations towards a CTBT. The Acronym Consortium was comprised of BASIC, the Verification Technology Information Center, Dfax, and the International Security Information Service. October 1995.  Executive Summary - to order a copy contact BASIC.
  • Indefinite Extension of the Non-Proliferation Treaty:  Risks and Reckonings 
    The seventh in the series published by the Acronym Consortium, this report looks at the arguments, decisions and dynamics of the 1995 Proliferation Treaty Review and Extension Conference. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of the decisions and looks at some implications for the future. The Acronym Consortium was comprised of BASIC, the Verification Technology Information Center, Dfax, and the International Security Information Service. September 1995.  Executive Summary - to order a copy contact BASIC.
  • Proceedings of a Seminar on Nuclear Testing and the CTB & Implementing the Decisions of the 1995 NPT Review and Extension Conference:  A European Perspective! 
    Among the speakers were Pauline Green, MEP (Leader of the PSE); Therese Delpeche, Adjoint au Directeur des Relations Internationales du Commissariat aŕ l'Energie Atomique; Richard Ekwall, Minister, Swedish Representative to the Conference on Disarmament; Peter Goosen, South African Representative to the Conference on Disarmament; Thomas Graham, Special Representative to the U.S. President for Arms Control and Disarmament; and Bernhard Sitt, Ministečre de la Deéfense. September 1995, not available on the web.
  • Strengthening the Non-Proliferation Regime:  Ends and Beginnings 
    The sixth in a series published by the Acronym Consortium, this report reviews the First 1995 Session of Negotiations at the Conference on Disarmament. It analyzes the extension options and procedural debates over voting, and provides a full report and analysis of negotiations on a comprehensive test ban treaty fissile material cut-off at the CD during 1994 and the first months of 1995. The Acronym Consortium was comprised of BASIC, the Verification Technology Information Center, Dfax, and the International Security Information Service. April 1995. Executive Summary - to order a copy contact BASIC.
  • NATO, Peacekeeping and the United Nations 
    This report, compiled by an international team of researchers, analyzes internal documents from NATO and several member states, revealing contradictions between the peacekeeping doctrines of NATO, the United Nations and individual nations. Published jointly by BASIC and the Berlin Information-centre for Transatlantic Security (BITS). September 1994

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