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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