Never has there been a greater need for this book, which provides a comprehensive analysis of the BW problem and options for addressing it by noted experts from around the world.
Michael Klare, director of the Five College Program in Peace and World Security Studies This extremely useful and authoritative volume provides a coherent account of the history of ... Read morebiological weapons programs and the attempts to control them.
Foreign Affairs
Wright argues, controversially, that powerful Western states, the U.S. in particular, are undermining the Biological Weapons Convention (BWC)—not the weaker non-Western states as commonly believed. Highly recommended.
CHOICE
A timely and important volume that challenges the narrow, conventional understandings of the threat of biological warfare as emanating solely from 'rogue states' and terrorists. Particularly innovative are Wright's analyses drawing connections between the biotechnology industry, economic development in the Third World, and the prospects for implementing a regime prohibiting biological warfare.
Matthew Evangelista, Cornell University, editor of Italy from Crisis to Crisis: Political Economy, Security, and Society in the 21st Century Show Less