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Disarming Syria: The Chemical Weapons Challenge

| November 21, 2013

International Security Program Seminar Series

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and the United Nations are undertaking an unprecedented operation in Syria: disarming a country of a particular type of weaponry in the midst of a civil war. Professor Findlay discussed the issue in the context of the overlapping legal, institutional, technical, and political demands being made of Syria and the prospects for success of the operation.

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For Academic Citation: Findlay, Trevor. “Disarming Syria: The Chemical Weapons Challenge.” Presentation, November 21, 2013. (presented at International Security Program Seminar, Cambridge, Mass).

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