Verification of compliance has been and will continue to be an essential component of arms control and disarmament agreements. Following a brief historical survey of verification, this study examines in detail verification provisions in all major multilateral and bilateral disarmament agreements, in force and in the drafting stage, from the perspective of monitoring compliance by satellites. The feasibility of verification from space is examined from technical and legal points of view. Important differences are noted between bilateral and multilateral agreements in terms of verification requirements. The effectiveness of, as well as confidence in, the verification process, it is suggested, will be significantly enhanced if the monitoring is carried out by an organization in which all contracting states have a say in the planning and conduct of monitoring and participate in decision-making. This study analyzes various official and private recommendations for the establishment of such an organization, with special emphasis on the proposed International Satellite Monitoring Agency (ISMA) whose constitution, structure and functions are set out in a comprehensive report prepared by a United Nations group of experts. The ISMA could play, in the opinion of the author, an important auxiliary role in monitoring compliance with many existing disarmament agreements as well as with those currently in the drafting phase.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.41194 |
| Date | January 1992 |
| Creators | Ushioda, Setsuko |
| Contributors | Vlasic, Ivan A. (advisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Civil Law (Institute of Air and Space Law.) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 001319442, proquestno: NN87975, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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