Disarmament: Kicking the can down the road

Published November 9, 2011

In multilateral diplomacy, as with other forms of international relations, states frequently are inclined to defer dealing with problems, rather than undertake the heavy lifting that is often required to resolve them.

This seems particularly to be the case in the field of multilateral arms control and disarmament—the subject matter of the United Nations General Assembly's First Committee, which...