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The changing global order and ongoing regional conflicts, with the global powers taking sides, have jeopardised the progress made towards disarmament in the past. Comment.

  • UPSC 2024
  • 10 marks
  • Changing International Political Order

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Disarmament means reducing or abolishing weapons; arms control, in Hedley Bull's The Control of the Arms Race (1961), means restraint agreed between adversaries who keep their arsenals. Both advanced from the Partial Test Ban Treaty (1963) to New START (2010). The statement is broadly right, but the wars are accelerants of a structural decline.

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