Chemical and Biological Weapons’ Disarmament

The Chapter aims at exploring the role of arms control and disarmament law in combating the use of chemical and biological weapons and in ensuring their destruction. It provides a detailed analysis of the 1972 Convention on the prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and the use of bacteriological (biological) and toxin weapons and on their destruction and the 1993 Convention on the prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and the use of chemical weapons and on their destruction, assessing their different compliance monitoring systems, identifying challenges to their implementation, and contextualizing them in a broader non-proliferation regime, where other multilateral and institutional initiatives take place.