Under what conditions are adversarial conventional arms control agreements (CAC) in Europe successful or unsuccessful? This study aims to identify the conjunctural causes of conventional arms control success in Europe from the end of World War One to the present based on a dataset of 22 cases. It applies a qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) to assess arms control success and failure resulting from four conditions: great power rivalry, national limitations, demilitarisation and delegation. Few studies have attempted to determine if CAC agreements in Europe have been successful and determine possible explanations for their outcome. This study’s results suggest that national limitations between great power rivals and the absence of delegation with great power rivalry are more likely to result in agreement failure. Delegation may be important for agreement success when great powers or buffer zones are involved. These findings offer insights for future CAC agreements in Europe.

William Lippert

Central European Journal of International and Security Studies

The Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (CEJISS) was founded by Mitchell Belfer (Editor in Chief), David Erkomaishvili (Deputy Editor in Chief), Nigorakhon Turakhanova (Head of the Academic Centre) and Petr Kucera, in December 2006, as an autonomous wing of the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Metropolitan University Prague. The initial goal was to develop, and project globally, a uniquely Central European take on unfolding international and security issues. This entailed an initial “out-reach” programme to attract scholars from throughout the four Central European states – the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and the Slovak Republic – to participate in the journal as authors and members of the Editorial and (then) Advisory Boards. By the time of the first issue however, it became clear that CEJISS was also capable of acting as a platform for non-Central European scholars to present their academic research to a more regionalised audience. From issue 1:1 in June 2007 until the present, CEJISS has become, quite literally, a two-way street—it helps Central European scholars enter international academia and international scholars enter Central Europe.

The Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (CEJISS) was founded in December 2006 by Editor in Chief Mitchell Belfer, Deputy Editor in Chief David Erkomaishvili, Head of the Academic Centre Nigorakhon Turakhanova, and Petr Kucera, as an autonomous branch of the Department of International Relations and European Studies at Metropolitan University Prague. The initial goal was to develop and globally project a uniquely Central European perspective on unfolding international and security issues. This included an initial outreach program to attract scholars from the four Central European states—the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and the Slovak Republic—to participate in the journal as authors and members of the Editorial and then Advisory Boards. However, by the time of the first issue, it became clear that CEJISS was also capable of acting as a platform for non-Central European scholars to present their academic research to a more regional audience. Since its first issue in June 2007, CEJISS has literally become a two-way street—it helps Central European scholars enter international academia while also allowing international scholars to enter Central Europe.

《Central European Journal of International and Security Studies》（CEJISS）由主编Mitchell Belfer、副主编David Erkomaishvili、学术中心负责人Nigorakhon Turakhanova和Petr Kucera于2006年12月创办，作为布拉格城市大学国际关系与欧洲研究系的一个独立分支。期刊的初衷是发展并全球传播一种独特的中欧视角，以应对国际和安全问题。这一目标包括一个初步的“外联”计划，旨在吸引来自捷克、匈牙利、波兰和斯洛伐克四个中欧国家的学者参与期刊的撰写和编辑工作。然而，在第一期出版之前，CEJISS已经证明自己能够为非中欧学者提供一个展示其学术研究的平台，向更具区域性的受众介绍他们的研究。从2007年6月的第一期开始，CEJISS逐渐发展成为一个双向交流的平台，帮助中欧学者进入国际学术界，同时也让国际学者能够进入中欧。

Conventional Arms Control Agreements in Europe: Conditions of Success and Failure

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