CONTENTS

PREFACE

ACRONYMS

PART I. ANALYSES, FORECASTS, DISCUSSIONS

1. INTERNATIONAL SECURITY AFTER THE CAUCASIAN CRISIS
Alexei ARBATOV

2. THE STANDOFF OVER IRAN’S NUCLEAR PROGRAM
Alexandre KALIADINE

• Requirements of the U.N. Security Council
• Understanding the Iranian challenge
• Ways to resolve the impasse
• Conclusions

3. THE RUSSIAN-CHINESE INITIATIVE ON THE PREVENTION OF THE PLACEMENT OF WEAPONS IN OUTER SPACE
Gennady ZHUKOV

• The looming threat of weapons in outer space
• Legal aspects of the initiative
• International response

4. NAVAL ARMS CONTROL AND COUNTERING TERRORISM AT SEA
Boris MAKEEV

• The prospect of international regulation of naval armaments
• The role of international cooperation in combating terrorism at sea

5. THE MILITARY AND HUMANITARIAN ASPECTS OF CLUSTER MUNITIONS
Vladimir BELOUS

• What are cluster munitions?
• On the way to constraining cluster munitions
• From Russia’s standpoint

PART II. EXPERT INSIGHTS

6. RUSSIA’S MILITARY-TECHNICAL COOPERATION WITH FOREIGN STATES: PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS
Natalia KALININA

• A system of military-technical cooperation in the making
• MTC at the current stage
• Russia’s position in the global arms market
• International transparency in arms transfers
• Arms trade and international security

7. DEFENSE OUTLAYS IN THE FEDERAL BUDGET FOR 2009–2011 (SYNOPSIS OF FEDERAL LAW no. FZ 204)
Natalya ROMASHKINA

• Expenditures on ‘National Defense’
• Sections of the Chapter ‘National Defense’
• Funding defense expenditures from other chapters of the Federal Budget

ANNEX. KEY DOCUMENTS OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION ON NATIONAL SECURITY, DEFENSE AND ARMS CONTROL (JANUARY – DECEMBER 2008)
Tamara FARNASOVA

1. Legislative acts
2. Normative acts

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