Special Issue: Biotechnology and International Conflict

    ARTICLES

    International Relations Theory, Biotechnology, and War
    Alan M. Russell 3

    The Matrix of Biological Disarmament: Strategy, Law, and Technology
    Paul H. DeForest 21

    The Role of International Law in Preventing Military Misuse of the Biosciences and Biotechnology
    Winfried Lang 37

    Biological and Toxin Weapons: Arms Control, Stability, and Western Security
    Lynn M. Hansen 47

    Biological Warfare and the Third World
    Raymond A. Zilinskas 59

    Medical Benefits of the Biological Defense Research Program
    Charles F. Dasey 77

    The Need for a Defensive Biological Research Program
    Thomas R. Dashiell 85

    Verifying the Unverifiable: Lessons from the Biological Weapons Convention
    Marie Isabelle Chevrier 93

    COMMENTARIES

    Galloping Biotechnology: A New Global Malady?
    Dennis Pirages 106

    Biotechnology, International Law, and the National Interest
    Elizabeth Crump Hanson 109

    Comment on DeForest and Zilinskas
    Sheila R. Buckley 113

    Commentary on Articles by Charles F. Dasey and Thomas R. Dashiell on the Biological Defense Research Program (BDRP)
    Robert J. Rutman and Harry J. Disch 117

    Strengthening the Biological Weapons Convention: Comments on the Contributions of Marie Isabell Chevrier and Lynn Marvin Hansen
    Erhard Geissler 122

    FURTHER COMMENTARIES

    Transmutation by Cole
    Raymond A. Zilinskas 127

    Further Commentary on Fox's "In the Matter of 'Baby M'"
    Robert L. Bard and Lewis Kurlantzick 130

    From Ideological Critique to the Methods and Morals of Science
    Bart Voorzanger 135

    RECENT BOOKS, ARTICLES, AND PAPERS 142

    BOOK REVIEWS

    The Diplomacy of Biological Disarmament: Vicissitudes of a Treaty in Force (Nicholas A. Sims)
    Précis 149
    Francis A. Boyle 149
    Marie Isabelle Chevrier 151
    Richard Falk 152
    Robert Mikulak 154

    A Dictionary of Ethology (Klaus Immelmann and Colin Beer)
    Carol Barner-Barry 155

    Social Fabrics of the Mind (Michael R. A. Chance, ed.)
    Précis 156
    William E. Addison 157
    Edward J. Korber 159
    Linda Mealey 161
    Peter K. Smith 162

    Peacemaking among Primates (Frans de Waal)
    Précis 164
    Richard W. Byrne 164
    G. Mitchell 166
    James N. Schubert 167

    Evolutionary Politics (Glendon Schubert)
    Précis 168
    Walter Truett Anderson 169
    Richard Shelly Hartigan 170
    John Strate 172
    Tatu Vanhanen 174

    The Nature of Politics (Roger D. Masters)
    Précis 176
    Heiner Flohr 176
    Steven A. Peterson 179
    Elliott White 181

    LETTERS TO THE EDITOR 183

    NEWS 184

     

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