Table of Contents

Declaration Acknowledgements Abstract List of Tables List of Figures Acronyms and Abbreviations

Chapter One: Introduction

Chapter Two: The Standing Consultative Commission

• Introduction
• Origins/Traces
• Composition
• Functions
• Privacy and ...
• Procedures

• a) US Procedures
• b) Soviet Procedures

• Political Functions

• Introduction - The SCC, Discourse and 'signalling'
• Strategic Background: From 'Gap' to 'Parity'

• a) Bombers and Radars
• b) ICBMs
• c) ABMs, MRVs and MIRVs
• d) Domestic political forces

• Verification Standards
• Agreements and their Verifiable Elements
• a) SALT I Provisions
• b) SALT II Provisions
• Compliance Challenges and the SCC
  • US Charges of soviet Noncompliance
  • Soviet Charges of US Noncompliance
• Compliance Challenge and Identity
• Image I: The Legal View
• Image II: The SCC View
• The Importance of Being Fuzzy: The Politics of Treaty Language Verification Technologies, Compliance and Power
• Disciplinary Power and Verification Technologies

• Hierarchical Observation
• International Norms/ Normailising Judgement
• Examination

• DŽtente and Deterrence: The Vance/Brzezinski Divide
• Carter: Perceptions, Assumptions and the Reader's Construction of Political Identity

• Introduction
• Seeds of Conservatism
• The Advent of the Committee on the Present Danger
• CPD and Warnke
• Emergence of the Second Cold War
• Pacta Sunt Servanda
• Rebus Sic Stantibus
• ÔWindow of VulnerabilityÕ
• SCC Activity 1980-1985
• Military Significance
• Grey Area Disputes
• Krasnoyarsk: Collusion of Discourses
• Thule and Fylingdales Moor Radars
• The Formation of Enunciative Modalities
• Disciplining Space: LPARs and Boundarymaking Practice
• The Individual/State Analogue

Chapter Five: Post Scriptum : After the Soviet Union:

• The SCC and the JCIC

Chapter Six: Conclusion

Footnotes

Appendices

Bibliography

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