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Fraying at the seams? Chemical and biological weapons on the margins

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posted on 2023-06-09, 01:58 authored by James Revill
The Chemical and biological weapons (CBW) regime, through the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and the and the 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention, appears to have established sound definitions for what constitutes a biological and chemical weapon which clearly delineate permitted from prohibited forms of violence. Moreover, for the large part of the history of these Conventions such definitions have served the international community well. However, at the peripheries of these agreements, qualitative and quantitative ambiguities over what constitute chemical and biological weapons remain. This paper looks at how such ambiguities could, over time, unravel shared understandings of what constitutes a chemical or biological weapon and, therefore, potentially begin to fray the CBW regime at the seams

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Pathways towards Security: what pathways are being realised in technology infrastructure; G1107; ESRC-ECONOMIC & SOCIAL RESEARCH COUNCIL; ES/K011324/1

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  • Published

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  • Accepted version

Presentation Type

  • paper

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ISA Conference

Event location

Atlanta, Georgia

Event type

conference

Event date

March 16th-19th, 2016

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  • SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit Publications

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Legacy Posted Date

2016-06-30

First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date

2016-06-30

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