ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT

My focus on the issue of arms control and disarmament concerned mainly the institutionalised and negotiated arms control at the multilateral level within the United Nations system. Although this type of control mechanism, especially at the bilateral level between the US and Russia fell into a state of crisis in the mid 1990s. Despite this impasse in traditional arms control, unilateral disarmament continued to take place and even reached peak levels in the mid -1990s. Global disarmament has included arms decommissioning, force demobilisation, cuts in defence production, military base closure and redevelopment and reduced military expenditures. My work at the Bonn International Center for Coversion, especially with the annual Conversion Survey, was intended to contribute to arms control and disarmament.

Publications



Europe's New Bellicism: Rearmament in a Frenzy, full text, in Toda Global Outlook, 21 March 2025.

Von Korea lernen (Korea ceasefire as model for Ukraine), full text, in IPG Journal, March 2025.

Mit Russland ins Gespräch kommen full text, 08 February 2025.

When is Enough, Enough? The Security Dilemma in Europe, full text, in Toda Report 209, February.

Wann ist genug, genug? Ein Vergleich der militärischen Potenziale der Nato und Russlands (When is enough enough? Comparing the military potentials of Nato and Russia) full text, Greenpeace, October 2024.

Boots on the Ground full text, in Global Outlook, Toda Peace Institute, March 2024.

Will Kim Jong Un Risk a War? full text, in Vision on Humanity, March 2024.

Nord- und Südkorea: Riskiert Kim Jong-un einen Krieg? full text, in Telepolis, February 2024.

Ten Take-aways on Russia's War and Five Ideas for the Future of Ukraine and Beyond full text, in Policy Brief 183, Toda Peace Institute, January 2024.

Alles auf Sieg. full text, in IPG Journal, März 2023.

Chicken-Game full text, in Global Outlook, Toda Peace Institute, March 2023.

Hochgerüstet in die Sackgasse. Gibt es einen Ausweg aus der politischen, ökonomischen und militärischen Eskalation? full text, in IPG Journal, Januar 2023.
English version: Security is more than defense with weapons. full text, in IPS Journal, January 2023..

Security Disorder: Is There a Way Out? full text, in Global Outlook, Toda Peace Institute, December 2022.

Realitätscheck full text, in IPG Journal, November 2022.

Should the Outcast be recognized? full text, in Global Outlook, Toda Peace Institute, November 2022.

Ritt auf der Bombe (North Korea's Nuclear Bomb) full text, in IPG Journal, September 2022.

Possible Deployment of North Korea's Nuclear Weapons: "Automatically and Immediately" full text, in Global Outlook, Toda Peace Institute, September 2022.

The Ukraine conflict between escalation and options for negotiations full text, in Visions of Humanity, September 2022.(co-authored with Tobias Debiel).

Mit Russland reden (We need to talk to Russia) full text, in Der Freitag, 1 September 2022.

Trend zur Eskalation (Tendency for Escalation) full text, in IPG Journal, July 2022.

Caring about Nuclear Sharing: A Set-Back for Nuclear Arms Control full text, in Global Outlook, Toda Peace Institute July 2022.

Eskalation, Deeskalation und - vielleicht irgendwann - ein Ende des Krieges? full text, in: Zeitschrift für sozialistische Politik, Ausgabe 2, 249, S. 42-48, 2022.

Escalation, De-escalation and Perhaps-Eventually-an End to the War? full text, in Policy Brief 128, Toda Peace Institute, April 2022.

Panikpolitik (politics in panic) full text, in IPG Journal, March 2022.

Escalation and De-escalation in the Ukraine War full text, in Global Outlook, Toda Peace Institute, March 2022.
republished in Pearls and Irritations: full text

Eskalation und Deeskalation im Ukraine-Krieg (Escalation and De-escalation in the Ukraine War) full text, in Development and Peace Blog, Institute for Development and Peace, University of Essen/Duisburg, March 2022.

Putin's War in Ukraine: How to get out of the Catch-22 Situation?full text, in Global Outlook, Toda Peace Institute March 2022.

Ukraine-Konflikt: Entspannungspolitik oder Gegenmaßnahmen? Eskalieren hilft nicht (Ukraine conflict: Détente oder counter-measures? Escalation is not helpful) full text, in Frankfurter Rundschau 11 February 2022.

Putin und Biden: Wer blinzelt zuerst? full text, in Telepolis, Janary 4, 2022.

Putin and Biden: Who will blink first? full text, in Global Outlook, Toda Peace Institute, January 2022.

Setting new priorities: The EU shifts from civil peace and development projects to military policies. in: Ramesh Thakur (ed.) (2021), The Nuclear Ban Treaty, Rutledge, 157 - 159, publisher.

The Rule of Law: Undermined and Under Attack. Questioning the State Monopoly on the Legitimate Use of Physical Force full text Toda Policy Brief 105, March. 2021.

The European Union's Security and Defence Policy: Struggling to Find its Role in the Big Power Game full text Toda Policy Brief 88, Sept. 2020.

The G20's Responsibility for Arms Control. full text Vision of Humanity, Feb. 2020.

Die Umkehr der Lemminge (Disarming the G20). full text Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, Dec. 2019.

Das Geschäft mit der Rüstung. Warum Europa aufhören sollte, Waffen in den Mittleren und Nahen Osten zu liefern (Arms Business. Why Europe shop stop supplying arms to the Near and Middle East). full text German, full text English Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft, May 2019.

Prospects for Denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula: Lessons from the Past for a Nuclear-Free Future, Today Peace Institute, full text, Policy Brief No. 31, February 2019.

Report of the FES Reflection Group of the Monopoly on the Use of Force 2.0?, Providing Security in Times of Uncertainty. Opting for a Mosaic Security System full text Berlin, June.

Den Rüstungswettlauf durchbrechen! Um die Aufrüstungsspirale zu stoppen, muss die G20 handeln.(Stopping the Arms Race! The G20 needs to act.) full text, in Internationale Politik und Gesellschaft.

Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung und Nonproliferation. Unilaterale Machtpolitik oder UN-konsensorientierter Multilateralismus (Arms Control, Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Unilateral Power Politics or UN consensus-oriented multilateralism). In: Helmut Breitmeier, Michèle Roth and Dieter Senghaas (eds.), Sektorale Weltordnungspolitik. Nomos: Baden-Baden 2009, pp. 31 - 50. publisher

Die Europäische Union als globaler sicherheitspolitischer Akteur: eine Politik mit problematischen Folgen (The European Union as a global security actor: a policy with problematic consequences). In: Hans J. Gießmann und Götz Neuneck (eds.), Streitkräfte zähmen, Sicherheit schaffen, Frieden gewinnen. Nomos: Baden-Baden 2008, pp. 147 - 158. publisher

Small Arms & Light Weapons, Non-Paper for the International Peace Institute, IPI Task Forces on Strengthening Multilateral Security Capacity, May 2008 full text

Europäische Rüstungspolitik - gibt's die? (European Arms Policy - does it exist?). In: Wissenschaft und Frieden, vol. 25, no. 4, 2007, 6 - 9. full text

Abrüstung und Rüstungskontrolle. Voraussetzung oder Folge von Deeskalation? (Disarmament and arms control as condition and consequence of de-escalation). in: Wissenschaft und Frieden, no. 2, 2005, 15 -18. full text

Bonn International Center for Conversion. Conversion Survey (annual). Global Disarmament, Demilitarization and Demobilization, Nomos, Baden-Baden, 1999 - 2004. Co-author. conversionsurvey 2003 conversionsurvey 2002

Bonn International Center for Conversion. Conversion Survey (annual). Global Disarmament, Demilitarization and Demobilization. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996 – 1998. Co-author. conversionsurvey

“Noch über 16.000 Atomsprengköpfe einsatzbereit” (Over 16,000 war heads deployed). in: PM Magazin, October 2003. abstract

Reinvigorating Multilateral Arms Control. Briefing Paper 24, 2001, Brussels: International Security Information Service. (with Michael Brzoska). full text.

Die Zeichen weisen wieder auf Aufrüstung. Sicherheitspplitische Spielräume jenseits der Supermächte. (Signs for an arms race). in: Frankfurter Rundschau, 15 June 2001. full text

Practical Disarmament. BICC Brief no. 16, 2000. Bonn: Bonn International Center for Conversion (Editor).full text

Disarmament and Conflict Prevention in Development Cooperation. BICC Report no. 14, 2000, Bonn: Bonn International Center for Conversion. (Editor). summary

An Evaluation of the Second Year of Reporlting the United Nations Register of Conventional Arms. in: The Nonoproliferation Review, Fal 1994, 99 - 111 (with Edward J. Laurance and Christina K. Woodward.full text

Western Europe facing security and peace. A Europeanist perspective. in: Bulletin of Peace Proposals, vol. 17, no. 1, 1986, 1 11. Sage Archive Security Dialogue

Disarmament as a chance for human development. Is there a peace dividend? Occasional Paper, no. 5, 1993. Human Development Report Office; New York/N.Y.: United Nations Development Programme. full text

East-West trade as a source of tension. in: Journal of Peace Research, vol. 19, no. 4, 1982, 301-322.
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