Arms Control

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815716853Author Ivo H. DaalderFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & Littlefield

The biannual, peer-reviewed Journal of Romanian Studies, jointly developed by The Society for Romanian Studies and ibidem Press, examines critical issues in Romanian studies, linking work in that field to wider theoretical debates and issues of current...

This volume features a selection of the best scholarship on international law as it is relevant to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The essays consider the nonproliferation legal regime as a normative system and offer a more discrete...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815704539Author Bates GillFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 399gDimensions(mm) 228mm...

This book explores whether the new capabilities made possible by precision-strike technologies are reshaping approaches to international intervention. Since the end of the Cold War, US technological superiority has led to a more proactive and, some would...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781921867644Author Billy GriffithsFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

The Strategic Survey is a journal of records that includes all relevant names and titles, chronologies and dates. But it is also much more: the hard facts are embossed in considered and nuanced analysis over 300 pages of text. The Strategic Survey opens...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815793878Author Joel S. WitFormat PaperbackPage Count 508Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 726gDimensions(mm)...

This volume examines the conditions necessary for a stable nuclear-weapons-free world and the implications for nuclear disarmament policy.The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is a road map to nuclear zero, but it is a rudimentary one and it says...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815713111Author Ashton B. CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 470Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm)...

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy...

This book examines President Reagan's and his administration's efforts to mobilize public and congressional support for seven of the president's controversial foreign policy initiatives. Each chapter deals with a distinct foreign policy issue, but they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815713654Author George BunnFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm)...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804712224Author Coit D. BlackerFormat PaperbackPage Count 516Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University Press

India and Pakistan have been in a state of persistent conflict that goes back to the very creation of these states after decolonization. This conflict has resulted in several wars and continuing armed clashes. After both states became nuclear powers, one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838213491Author Margaret BeissingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag,...

Iraq is rapidly descending into all-out civil war. Unfortunately, the United States probably will not be able to just walk away from the chaos. Even setting aside the humanitarian nightmare that will ensue, a full-scale civil war would likely consume...

In 1960, President Kennedy warned of a dangerous future, rife with nuclear-armed states and a widespread penchant for conflict by the end of the century. Thankfully, his prediction failed to pass; in fact, roughly three times as many countries have since...

One of the 'inventors' of the nuclear bomb, Sir Joseph Rotblat very soon turned away from weapons research to make a prolonged and principled stand against the dangers of nuclear proliferation. A physicist of great brilliance, he metamorphosed into a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780815739616Author Charles GlaserFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Brookings InstitutionPublisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams) 449gDimensions(mm)...

Controversy over the Iranian nuclear policy has been mounting in both legal and political circles since the early 2000s. Most recently, the IAEA, tasked with verifying compliance of Member States with the NPT, has been expressing concern that Iran's...

The postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets. Death Dust explores the largely unknown...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501154195Author Guy LawsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Pocket BooksPublisher Pocket BooksWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 168mm * 104mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439183076Author Catherine CollinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 19mm

Applying strategic theory to outer space and drawing out the implications for international relations Offers a definitive and original vision of space warfare that theorises often-overlooked aspects of contemporary space activities based in the...

The nail-biting story of when the hardhats of downtown Manhattan beat scores of hippies bloody in May 1970, four days after Kent State, and how the nation reacted. In May 1970, four days after Kent State, construction workers chased students through...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789492916532Author Rebel Press MediaFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Lighthouse PressPublisher Lighthouse PressWeight(grams) 82gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948647625Author Ted Galen CarpenterFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Cato InstitutePublisher Cato InstituteWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

This unique volume examines the opportunities for, and initiates work in, interdisciplinary research between the fields of international law and international relations; disciplines that have engaged little with one another since the Second World War...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781594039720Author Claudia RosettFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Encounter Books,USAPublisher Encounter Books,USA

It is estimated that today some 2.7% of world GDP ($1.5 trillion) is spent on arms. In 2014 Lockheed Martin, the US defence contractor, had revenues of $45 billion the equivalent of the GDP of Tunisia. This book explores the business behind these...

The definitive guide to the history of nuclear arms control by a wise eavesdropper and masterful storyteller, Michael Krepon. The greatest unacknowledged diplomatic achievement of the Cold War was the absence of mushroom clouds. Deterrence alone was too...

Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality. As researchers such as Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and Richard...

The Global Arms Trade is written by a team of security experts drawn from around the world, analysing a phenomenon which has continued to flourish despite the end of the Cold War and the preoccupation with global terrorism after 11 September 2001. It...

This book explores why anti-militarists resist, considers the politics of different tactics and examines the tensions and debates within the movement. It argues that anti-militarists can help us understand militarism in new and useful ways, and that that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948647618Author Ted Galen CarpenterFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Cato InstitutePublisher Cato InstituteWeight(grams) 290g

The contributors to this book explore approaches to building a framework for nuclear governance in the Asia-Pacific - encompassing nuclear safety, security, and safeguards/non-proliferation. Nuclear governance collaboration offers an avenue for states in...

The Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated current affairs and geopolitics for over a decade. Yet there is little real understanding of Iran's nuclear programme, in particular its history, which is now over fifty years old. This ground-breaking book argues...

The Nuclear Club reveals how a coalition of powerful and developing states embraced global governance in hopes of a bright and peaceful tomorrow. While fears of nuclear war were ever-present, it was the perceived threat to their preeminence that drove...