Hardly anyone would deny that material interests can influence the course of arms control negotiations. But what happens when actors carry different notions of justice into such negotiations? Do such notions matter at all in a field of “hard security” such as biological weapons control?
Using the example of the biological weapons control regime, Una Becker-Jakob analyses in PRIF-Working paper No. 9 Notions of Justice in the Biological Weapons Control Regime to what extent different notions of justice come to bear in the negotiations within the regime and how they impact upon existing regime conflicts.