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Guive Mirfendereski will explore the legal framework of the current U.S. foreign policy vis à vis issues of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and spread of hazardous technologies.
Guive Mirfendereski, the author of A Diplomatic History of the Caspian Sea: Treaties, Diaries, and Other Stories (Palgrave, 2001), is a diplomatic historian and professorial lecturer in international law and relations.
Iraq's alleged pursuit of weapons of mass destruction and the recent news about North Korea's decision to reopen a plutonium processing plant once more remind individuals of the realities of the emerging new New World Order.
While the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency provide the institutional framework for curbing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the World is embarking on a new era of crisis management. The spread of enabling technologies, by international transaction or domestic sourcing, and the phenomenon of "terrorism without frontiers" are challenging the traditional underpinnings of the international legal order as well as America's own constitutional values.
In the search to create new frameworks to deal with hazardous technologies, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, environmental challenges and terrorism the World may be better served to look to the past for direction.
Born in Tehran, Iran, Dr. Mirfendereski's early childhood was spent in Holland, India and Turkey, and his adolescence in Iran, the Soviet Union, and Switzerland. After graduation from Georgetown University with a degree in Government, he received his M.A., M.A.L.D. and Ph.D. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. His law degree is from Boston College Law School. He is the corporate counsel for a multinational biotechnology company headquartered in Watertown, Massachusetts.
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