8. Further Reading
Listed below are some selected books and articles that may be of interest to those seeking
more detailed background and contextual information on the information and documents
included in this Briefing Book. Also useful are the BWC website of the UN Department for
Disarmament Affairs at www.unog.ch/bwc and the archive of BWC documents at
www.opbw.org Alongside the individual titles noted below, readers can also refer to the
periodic reports in the annual SIPRI Yearbook and Verification Yearbook. In addition, The CBW
Conventions Bulletin publishes reports of BWC meetings in its quarterly issues. A valuable
source of information and analysis is provided in the various papers published by the
Department of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford. Likewise much useful
information and analysis is published by the BioWeapons Prevention Project which is
responsible for the BioWeapons Report and the BioWeapons Monitor. These sources can be
found on the internet at the following addresses:
BioWeapons Prevention Project
www.bwpp.org
The CBW Conventions Bulletin
www.sussex.ac.uk/Units/spru/hsp/pdfbulletin.html
Department of Peace Studies
www.brad.ac.uk/acad/sbtwc/
SIPRI Yearbooks
www.sipri.org/contents/cbwarfare/Publications/Publications/cbw-yearbook.html
VERTIC Yearbooks
www.vertic.org/publications/verification yearbook.asp
The Geneva Protocol
Baxter, RR and Thomas Buergenthal. “Legal Aspects of the Geneva Protocol of 1925”,
American Journal of International Law, vol. 64 (1970)
France and Switzerland. The Biological and Chemical Weapons Threat Yesterday and Today,
Geneva 9-10 June, 2005. International Seminar Initiated by Switzerland and France on the Occasion
of the 80th Anniversary of the Signing of the Geneva Protocol Prohibiting the Use of Chemical and
Biological Weapons
McElroy, Rodney. “The Geneva Protocol of 1925”, in M. Krepon and D. Caldwell (eds.), The
Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification, (1991) pp. 125–66
Spiers, Edward. “Gas Disarmament in the 1920s: Hopes Confounded”, Journal of Strategic
Studies, vol. 29 no. 2 (2006), pp. 281-300
The Biological Weapons Convention
Borrie, John. “The Limits of Modest Progress: The Rise, Fall, and Return of Efforts to
Strengthen the Biological Weapons Convention”, Arms Control Today, vol. 36 no. 8 (October
2006)
BioWeapons Prevention Project. BioWeapons Report 2004 (Geneva: BWPP, 2004)
United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs, BWC Meetings Secretariat. “The Text
of the Convention and Additional Understandings”, September 2005
Dunworth, Treasa, Robert Mathews and Tim McCormack. “National implementation of the
Biological Weapons Convention”, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, vol. 11, no. 1 (2006) pp.
93-118
Millet, Piers. “The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention in context: from monolith to
keystone”, Disarmament Forum, no. 3 (2006), pp. 47-64
Sims, Nicholas. The Diplomacy of Biological Disarmament: Vicissitudes of a Treaty in Force, 197585 (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1988)
Sims, Nicholas. The Evolution of Biological Disarmament, SIPRI Chemical & Biological Warfare
Studies no. 19 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Woodward, Angela. Time to Lay Down the Law: National Laws to Enforce the BWC, (London:
VERTC, 2003)
The BWC Protocol
Kervers, Onno. “Strengthening compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention: the
Protocol negotiations”, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, vol. 7 no. 2 (2002) pp. 275-92
Kervers, Onno. “Strengthening compliance with the Biological Weapons Convention: the
Draft Protocol”, Journal of Conflict and Security Law, vol. 8 no. 1 (2003) pp. 161-200
Littlewood, Jez. The Biological Weapons Convention: A Failed Revolution (Aldershot: Ashgate,
2005)
Rissanen, Jenni. “Continued turbulence over BWC verification”, Verification Yearbook 2002
(London: VERTIC, 2002) pp. 75-92
Rissanen, Jenni. “Left in limbo: Review Conference suspended on edge of collapse.”
Disarmament Diplomacy, no. 62 (2002) pp. 18-32
Ward, Kenneth. “The BWC Protocol: Mandate for failure”, The Nonproliferation Review, vol. 11
no. 2 (2004) pp. 1-17
The Inter-Sessional Process
Lennane, Richard. “Blood, toil, tears and sweat: the Biological and Toxin Weapons
Convention since 2001”, Disarmament Forum, no. 3 (2006), pp. 5-16
Littlewood, Jez. “Substance hidden under a mountain of paper: the BWC Experts’ Meeting in
2003”, Disarmament Diplomacy, no. 73 (2003), pp. 63-6
Tucker, Jonathan. “Preventing the misuse of pathogens: the need for global biosecurity
standards”, Arms Control Today vol. 33 no. 5, (2003), pp. 3-10
Tucker, Jonathan. “The BWC New Process: a preliminary assessment”, The Nonproliferation
Review, vol. 11 no. 1 (2004) pp. 26-39
The Sixth Review Conference
United Nations Department for Disarmament Affairs, BWC Meetings Secretariat. Sixth
Review Conference of the States Parties to the Biological Weapons Convention: Backgrounder
Feakes, Daniel and Graham Pearson. “Achieving the outcomes of the Sixth Review
Conference”, Disarmament Forum, no. 3 (2006), pp. 37-46
Geneva Forum. Meeting the Challenges of Reviewing the Biological & Toxin Weapons Convention.
Hotel Victoria, Glion, Switzerland, 9-10 March 2006. Summary Report
Pearson, Graham, Nicholas Sims and Malcolm Dando. Strengthening the Biological and Toxin
Weapons Convention: Key Points for the Sixth Review Conference, (Bradford: Department of
Peace Studies, University of Bradford, 2006)
Sims, Nicholas. “Towards the BWC Review Conference: Diplomacy still in the Doldrums”,
Disarmament Diplomacy, no. 82 (2006) pp. 8-16
Sims, Nicholas. “Strengthening structures for the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention:
options for remedying the institutional deficit”, Disarmament Forum, no. 3 (2006), pp. 17-26