Military Intervention as an Nonproliferation Strategy

This presentation described the evolution of the concept of preventive military intervention, reviewed a series of cases in which force was used in an attempt to prevent the acquisition of nuclear weapons, and identified key conditions associated with the effectiveness, or ineffectiveness of the strategy.

The conference was jointly organized by the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg (IFSH) , and the Department of International Relations at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (LMU); Funded by the Fritz-Thyssen-Stiftung and the German Foundation for Peace Research.