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Verification Yearbook

Verification Yearbook 2004
Edited by Trevor Findlay
VERTIC, London, 2003, 263pp, ISBN 1-899548-39-4 ISSN 1477-3759
(£25/$40)

The Verification Yearbook 2004 continues VERTIC’s wide-ranging annual coverage of verification developments and trends in arms control and
disarmament, the environment and other fields. With a preface by Rogelio Pfirter, Director General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the Yearbook contains 11 chapters analyzing the topics below.


Preface
Rogelio Pfirter
Introduction: the state of play of verification
Trevor Findlay
Effective CTBT verification: the evidence accumulates
David Hafemeister
Improving CWC implementation: the OPCW Action Plan
Lisa Tabassi and Scott Spence
The lessons of UNSCOM and UNMOVIC
Trevor Findlay
Verifying Libya’s nuclear disarmament
Jack Boureston and Yana Feldman

Iran and nuclear safeguards: establishing the facts and seeking compliance
Wyn Q. Bowen
Small arms: monitoring the UN action programme
Helen Hughes
Monitoring greenhouse gases
Larry MacFaul
International systems for monitoring and verifying fisheries agreements
Judith Swan
Intelligence, verification and Iraq’s WMD
Brian Jones
Monitoring human rights treaties
Patricia Watt


Verification Yearbook 2003
Edited by Trevor Findlay
Commissioning co-editor Kenneth Boutin
VERTIC, London, 2003, 263pp, ISBN 1-899548-37-8 ISSN 1477-3759
(£25/$40)
The Verification Yearbook 2003—the only publication devoted exclusively to verification and compliancecontinues VERTIC's internationally recognised series of independent, authoritative analysis of verification trends and developments in arms control and disarmament, the environment, and other issue areas. It also covers technologies and modalities

The Preface is by Wolfgang Hoffmann, Executive Secretary, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Organzation (CTBTO). The introducation by VERTIC Executive Director Trevor Findlay examines the current state of multilateral verification, while the other 13 chapters, written by leading practitioners and scholars, analyse the topics that are listed below.

Preface
Wolfgang Hoffmann
Introduction: multilateral verification in flux
Trevor Findlay
Integrated nuclear safeguards: genesis and evolution
Jill N. Cooley
UNMOVIC in Iraq: opportunity lost
Trevor Findlay and Ben Mines
North Korea: the challenge of verifying a moving target
Kenneth Boutin
Back to basics: verification and the Biological Weapons Convention
Jez Littlewood
Reviewing the Chemical Weapons Convention: gently does it
Robert J. Mathews
The radiological threat: verification at the source
Klaas van der Meer
CTBT radionuclide verification and the British Laboratory
Christine Comley and Owen Price
National implementing laws for arms control and disarmament treaties
Angela Woodward
‘Demonstrable progress’ on climate change: prospects and possibilities

Molly Anderson
Monitoring and verification of geological and ocean carbon dioxide disposal
Jason Anderson
Monitoring the Montreal Protocol
Duncan Brack
US nonproliferation assistance: verification and transparency
Michael Jasinski
Monitoring UN sanctions in Africa: the role of panels of experts

Alex Vines

 

Yearbook Sale
Previous Yearbooks (2000, 2001 and 2002) are now for sale. Collect all three for the price of one: £30 for the set. To order the Yearbooks below contact Jane Awford.

Verification Yearbook

Verification Yearbook 2002
Edited by Trevor Findlay and Oliver Meier
VERTIC, London, 2002, 227pp, ISBN 1-899548-32-7 (£30/$US45)

The Verification Yearbook 2002 provides independent, authoritative and concise analysis of Verification developments over the past year, as well as assessing future trends in monitoring, verification and compliance. It covers developments in arms control and disarmament verification, environmental monitoring and election observation, as well as verification modalities and technologies. With a foreword by Joke Waller-Hunter the Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat in Bonn, Germany, the chapters are by VERTIC researchers and leading analysts, academics and practitioners.

Preface
Joke Waller-Hunter
Introduction: verification in the news for all the wrong and right reasons
Trevor Findlay
Recent developments in nuclear weapons verification
Nikolai Sokov
CTBT verification: technical progress versus political stasis
Oliver Meier
The OPCW at five: balancing verification in evolving circumstances
Robert J. Mathews
Continued turbulence over BWC verification
Jenni Rissanen
The Trilateral Agreement: lessons for biological weapons verification
David C. Kelly
Verifying a missile accord with North Korea
Leon V. Sigal
A role for verification and monitoring in small arms control?
Kate Joseph and Taina Susiluoto
Verification under the Kyoto Protocol
Molly Anderson
Monitoring environmental treaties using earth observation
Josef Aschbacher
International election observation
Bill Gray and Therese Laanela
Infrasound as a tool for CTBT verification
Hein Haak and Läslo Evers
The Open Skies Treaty
Ernst Britting and Hartwig Spitzer
Verification and advanced co-operative security
Nancy Gallagher

Verification Yearbook 2001
Edited by Trevor Findlay and Oliver Meier
VERTIC, London, 2001, 227pp, ISBN 1-899548-32-7 (£20/$US35)

The Verification Yearbook 2001 provides concise and authoritative accounts of verification developments over the Year 2001 as well as in-depth analysis of verification issues and trends. The volume is divided into four parts, covering the verification of arms control and disarmament, environmental treaties and peace agreements, plus verification issues. With a foreword by Mohamed ElBaradei, Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency, the chapters are by VERTIC researchers and leading analysts, academics and practitioners.

Preface
Mohamed ElBaradei
Introduction: verification under challenge
Trevor Findlay
Verifying Nuclear Arms control and disarmament
Edward M. Ifft
Test ban verification
Trevor Findlay and Oliver Meier
Nuclear Safeguards
John Carlson
The Biological Weapons Convention
Marie Chevrier
Verifying the Ottawa Convention
Angela Woodward
The Kyoto Protocol
Molly Anderson, Trevor Findlay and Clare Tenner
Verification mechanisms in CITES
Rosalind Reeve
Peace operations and the military dimensions of verification
Trevor Findlay
Verification of the Dayton arms control agreements
Dieter Rothbacher
Nuclear warhead arms control research at AWE
Garry J. George and Martin Ley
Non-governmental monitoring of international agreements
Oliver Meier and Clare Tenner

Verification Yearbook 2000
Edited by Trevor Findlay
VERTIC, London, 2000, 282pp, ISBN 1-899548-21-1 (£20/$US35)

The Verification Yearbook 2000 is a special millennial edition designed to relaunch VERTIC's yearbook series after an absence of two years. It provides concise and authoritative accounts of verification developments in the final decades of the twentieth century, as well as foreshadowing issues and trends in the opening decades of the twenty-first. The volume is divided into four parts, covering the verification of arms control and disarmament, environmental treaties and peace agreements, plus verification and compliance tools and mechanisms generally. With a foreword by Richard Butler, former Executive Chairman of the UN Special Commission on Iraq, the chapters are by VERTIC researchers and leading analysts, academics and practitioners.

Preface
Richard Butler
Introduction: the salience and future of verification
Trevor Findlay
Nuclear test ban verification: work in progress
Oliver Meier
Nuclear safeguards: evolution and future
David Fischer
Verifying nuclear arms control and disarmament
Annette Schaper
Chemical disarmament: advent and performance of the OPCW
Robert J. Mathews
Verifying biological disarmament: towards a protocol and organisation
Nicholas Sims
Verification of conventional arms control
Pál Dunay
Verification under duress: the case of UNSCOM
Stephen Black
Multilateral environmental agreements: trends in verification
Clare Tenner
Verification and compliance systems in the climate change regime
Clare Tenner
Monitoring and verifying the military aspects of peace accords
Jane Boulden
Evolution of police monitoring in peace operations
J. Matthew Vaccaro
Remote monitoring from space: the resolution revolution
Bhupendra Jasani
The information revolution and verification
Andrew Rathmell
Compliance mechanisms for disarmament treaties
A. Walter Dorn and Douglas S. Scott
Intelligence in arms control and disarmament
Tim McCarthy
Societal verification: wave of the future?
Dieter Deiseroth
Peace operations worldwide, 1948-2000

Verification Yearbooks 1991-97
R. Guthrie (ed), Verification 1997: Arms Control, Peacekeeping and the Environment (£10/$US15)
J. B. Poole & R. Guthrie (eds), Verification 1996: Arms Control, Peacekeeping and the Environment (£10/$US15)
J. B. Poole & R. Guthrie (eds), Verification 1995: Arms Control, Peacekeeping and the Environment (Out of print)
J. B. Poole & R. Guthrie (eds), Verification 1994: Arms Control, Peacekeeping and the Environment (Out of print)
J. B. Poole & R. Guthrie (eds), Verification 1993: Peacekeeping, Arms Control and the Environment (£10/$US15)
J. B. Poole & R. Guthrie (eds), Verification Report 1992: Yearbook on Arms Control and Environmental Agreements (£10/$US15)
J. B. Poole (ed), Verification Report 1991: Yearbook on Arms Control and Environmental Agreements (£10/$US15)

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