Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Black-Branch & Fleck: Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law: Volume II - Verification and Compliance

Jonathan L. Black-Branch (Royal Holloway Univ. of London - Law) & Dieter Fleck (formerly, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany) have published Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law: Volume II - Verification and Compliance (Asser Press 2015). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:
This second Volume in the book Series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law discusses the legal interpretation and implementation of verification and compliance with the Treaty of the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, 1968; the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, 1996; and the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy Community (EURATOM), 1957. It specifically examines the question, contested in recent academic writings, whether the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is competent to verify not only the correctness, but also the completeness of national declarations. Topical legal issues of verification and its technical and political limits as well as peaceful settlement of disputes and countermeasures are discussed in-depth.