Zones have also been proposed, so far without success, for the Middle East, South Asia and Northeast Asia. In this book, analysts from within the respective regions explore the reasons for success and failure in the establishment of the zone, and their utility and limitations as stepping stones to a nuclear-weapon-free world.

Notes on Contributors Abbreviations PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Stepping Stones to a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World; R.Thakur PART TWO: THE FOUR ESTABLISHED ZONES Latin America: the Treaty of Tlatelolco; M.Serrano The South Pacific: the Treaty of Rarotonga; M.Hamel-Green Southeast Asia: the Treaty of Bangkok; C.G.Hernandez Africa: the Treaty of Pelindaba; J.O.Ihonvbere PART THREE: FOUR PROSPECTIVE ZONES A Northeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone: A Korean Perspective; B.Koo A Northeast Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone: A Japanese Perspective; N.Sajima The Case for a South Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone; S.Yasmeen The Obstacles to a South Asian Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone; D.Banerjee The Case For a Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone in the Middle East; I.A.Karawan The Obstacles to a Middle East Nuclear-Weapon-Free-Zone in the Middle East; G.M.Steinberg A Nuclear-Weapon-Free Southern Hemisphere; T.O'Brien Index

DIPANKAR BANERJEE AVSM, formerly Deputy Director of the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. MICHAEL HAMEL-GREEN Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Community Studies at Victoria University of Technology in Melbourne CAROLINA G. HERNANDEZ Professor of International Relations at the University of the Philippines and President of the Institute for Strategic and Development Studies in Manila JULIUS O. IHONVBERE Program Officer in the Peace and Social Justice Program of the Ford Foundation in New York IBRAHIM A. KARAWAN Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City BON-KAK KOO Research Fellow at the Korea Institute for Defence Analyses (KIDA) TERENCE O'BRIEN Foundation Director of the Centre for Strategic Studies in Wellington NAOKO SAJIMA Research Professor at the National Institute for Defence Studies, Japan MONICA SERRANO Senior Lecturer at El Colegio de Mexico GERALD M. STEINBERG Professor of Political Studies and Director of Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Research at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies SAMINA YASMEEN Senior Lecturer in International Politics at the University of Western Australia

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