The 10th Anniversary of the HCoC

Observatoire de la non-prolifération

Bulletin n°74

En 2013, on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the HCoC, the Center for Studies in International Security and Arms Control published a special issue of the Bulletin de l’Observatoire de la non-proliferation.

OCTOBER 2013

 

CONTENTS

  • Le code de conduite de La Haye : 10 ans de lutte contre la prolifération balistique, Camille Grand (directeur de la FRS)
  • Genèse du HCoC, Bruno Gruselle
  • HCoC et la prolifération balistique, Erik Marzolf
  • An interview with Ambassador CHO Hyun (Republic of Korea, 2012-13 HCoC Chair)
  • Legal features of the Hague Code of Conduct, Natalino Ronzitti
  • La problématique des lanceurs légers, Xavier Pasco & Stéphane Delory
  • HCoC et MTCR, Jérémie Hammedi
Issue Briefs

The HCoC and Strategic Risk Reduction

As a multilateral instrument, the HCoC holds a particular place in a global architecture of measures that attempts to reduce the destabilising nature of ballistic missiles. By promoting transparency about policies and launches, it aims to limit the risk of misunderstanding, misinterpretation, and worst-case assessments.

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The HCoC and China

China is currently the main ballistic missile possessor and spacefaring nation which remains outside the Hague Code of Conduct against Ballistic Missile Proliferation (HCoC). This can be explained by China’s traditional opacity regarding its deployment of strategic missiles, but also its exports of ballistic systems or technologies abroad. This absence is nonetheless problematic for a regime based on voluntary transparency and confidence-building which aims at universality.

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