This paper examined the reason why little progress had been made on arms control and disarmament in the Asian region in the post-Cold War era, different from other areas of the world and studied the effective measures to promote the arms conrol and disaramament to accomplish human security in this region. First, several nonproliferation efforts were evaluated which tried to address "nuclear black market" in Asia, among which positive evaluations were granted to INFCIRC/540-type nuclear safeguards measures made by the IAEA, Proliferation Security Iitiative (PSI) to seize the sensitive materials and equipments even on the high seas and in the air, and Container Security Initiative (CSI). Since nonproliferation has to be conducted along with diearmament efforts, measures to be addressed collectively were also studied and conluded that emphasis had to be placed upon to function long-stagnated nuclear-weapon-free zone treaties (NWFZ) as well as disarmament of small arms and light weapons (SALW). Research for this paper was conducted mostly using raw data and original documents from the UN-related organizations, arms control communities world-wide and various home pages of nonproliferation and export control organizaions.

The 21st century center of excellence program "Policy innovation initiative: human security research in Japan and Asia"