Étiquette : armes chimiques

This article is the English version of Patricia M. Lewis, « La maîtrise des armements à l’épreuve des crises », published in Politique étrangère (Vol. 91, No. 2, 2026) which celebrates the journal’s 90th anniversary.

The events of recent years have opened a pause for reflection on the role that arms control has played in the wider effort of international, collective security over the last 80 years.

In the context of Russia’s brutal land-grab war against Ukraine since 2022 and yet another horrendous conflict in the Middle East, the shocking United States (US) pull-back from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the United Nations (UN), including the proposals of invading Greenland and Canada, has increased an already high sense of insecurity and fears of conflict escalation throughout the world.

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