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How the UN beat Hitler and prepared the peace (2008)
Journal Article
Plesch, D. (2008). How the UN beat Hitler and prepared the peace. Global Society, 22(1), 137-158. https://doi.org/10.1080/13600820701740779

The United Nations was born in 1942, defeated the Axis Powers led by Germany, Italy and Japan and created today's UN system. This reality has been lost in modern scholarship. We are taught that the Allied countries, mainly America and Britain, with t... Read More about How the UN beat Hitler and prepared the peace.

Introducing the Concept of a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone (2008)
Journal Article
Plesch, D. (2008). Introducing the Concept of a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone. International Relations, 22(3), 323-329. https://doi.org/10.1177/0047117808094175

This Forum arises from a new research programme at the Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) centred on `Disarmament and Globalisation', of which the Middle East Weapons of Mass Des... Read More about Introducing the Concept of a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone.

Strategic Concept for the Regulation of Arms Possession and Proliferation (2008)
Report
Plesch, D. (2008). Strategic Concept for the Regulation of Arms Possession and Proliferation

In practice there is still a “piecemeal approach towards proliferation” and argued that a genuinely comprehensive and global approach to non-proliferation would involve the integration of policy “on nuclear and other WMD non- proliferation, arms cont... Read More about Strategic Concept for the Regulation of Arms Possession and Proliferation.