Arms Control

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817948412Author Sidney D. DrellFormat HardbackPage Count 232Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 531g

The Nuclear Dilemma in a Changing World.The War That Must Never Be Fought explores how nuclear deterrence should be understood seventy years after the first nuclear tests. These essays, edited by George P. Shultz and James E. Goodby, challenge outdated...

The ways in which law has interacted with concrete interests to reshape Japan's foreign trade politics at the start of the twenty-first century can best be characterized as aggressive legalism. Central to this transformation have been the beneficiaries...

A Stanford University Press classic.Book InformationISBN 9780804724395Author Marc A. GenestFormat HardbackPage Count 204Imprint Stanford University PressPublisher Stanford University PressWeight(grams) 417g

This collection of studies is one of the most lucid and sober analyses of the dangers of nuclear war, which mankind is facing. Written by natural and social scientists, the book should be read both by statesmen and by the general public. Looking towards...

Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking closely at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East, Etel Solingen finds two distinct regional patterns. In East Asia, the norm since the late 1960s has...

For thirteen years, since his resignation from the chairmanship of the Atomic Energy Commission, Mr. Lilienthal has kept silent on the atom, turning his energies and talents to the field of international development. Now the first chairman of the AEC...

In the early 20th century, the diesel-electric submarine made possible a new type of unrestricted naval warfare. Such brutal practices as targeting passenger, cargo, and hospital ships not only violated previous international agreements; they were...

Rogue states pursue weapons of mass destruction, support terrorism, violate human rights, engage in acts of territorial aggression, and pose a threat to the international community. Recent debates and policy shifts regarding Iraq, North Korea, Syria,...

The adaptation of the 1990 CFE Treaty and the Vienna Document 1994 of the Negotiations on Confidence- and Security-Building Measures were both completed by the November 1999 OSCE Istanbul summit meeting. In the new century, Europe will continue to...

Since World War II, technological arms competition has increasingly militarized international political relations. The reversal of this by arms control and disarmament agreements is largely dependent on the provision of well researched information about...

Apocalypse Never illuminates why we must abolish nuclear weapons, how we can, and what the world will look like after we do. The twenty-first century has ushered in a world at the atomic edge. The pop culture days of Dr. Strangelove have been replaced by...

Few issues in international affairs and energy security animate thinkers more than the classic topic of hegemony, and the case of the Persian Gulf presents particularly fertile ground for considering this concept. Since the 1970s, the region has...

Jai Galliott explores the overarching phenomenon of how force short of war is being used in modern conflict, and how it impacts just war theory. He shows that we need to bring the rules of war into alignment with increasingly digital means of conducting...

Nuclear forensics is the science of determining the history of a sample of radioactive material through the study of the material's characteristics. While nuclear forensic analysis has normally been associated with investigations and prosecutions in the...

This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the evolution and development of arms control processes as an integral part of the Pakistan-India grand dialogue, which took place from 1988 to 2008 and it examines the larger political context and its impact...

Nuclear Weapons Counterproliferation: A New Grand Bargain proposes a new legal and institutional framework for counterproliferation of nuclear weapons. Its proposal is designed to remedy the widely acknowledged breakdown of the architecture of the...

First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorVarious authors who are experts in their fieldsBook InformationISBN 9780415498432Author VARIOUS AUTHORSFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint...

This book offers a novel approach to understanding the puzzle of nuclear proliferation by examining how leaders' beliefs and perceptions about the international system influence states' decisions to acquire nuclear weapons.Today, there is a persisting...

The history of Pakistan's nuclear program is the history of Pakistan. Fascinated with the new nuclear science, the young nation's leaders launched a nuclear energy program in 1956 and consciously interwove nuclear developments into the broader narrative...

This book offers an empirically rich study of Chinese nuclear weapons behaviour and the impact of this behaviour on global nuclear politics since 1949. China's behaviour as a nuclear weapons state is a major determinant of global and regional...

First published in 1997, this volume builds its discussion on a technological base along with policy implications, and constitutes a review of the current situation in international security created by the Cold War, and how the end of the Cold War is...

This book provides an overview of how the UK tried to maintain and modernize its strategic and tactical nuclear weapons during 1974-82, whilst also pursuing a comprehensive nuclear test ban treaty. The core question addressed in the book is how a test...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190265687Author David KilcullenFormat HardbackPage Count 336Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 163mm * 33mm

In Unending Crisis, Thomas Graham Jr. examines the second Bush administration's misguided management of foreign policy, the legacy of which has been seven major--and almost irresolvable--national security crises involving North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan,...

Soon after nuclear weapons devastated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Bernard Brodie and several colleagues wrote The Absolute Weapon, which predicted that the atomic bomb would revolutionize international politics. In TheAbsolute Weapon...

First published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor and Francis, an informa company.About the AuthorVarious authors who are experts in their fieldsBook InformationISBN 9781138458789Author VARIOUS AUTHORSFormat HardbackPage Count 254Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817949211Author George P. ShultzFormat HardbackPage Count 538Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635578485Author Ioan GrilloFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 420g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817948429Author Sidney D. DrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780817944728Author Sidney D. DrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Publisher Hoover Institution Press,U.S.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783838216041Author Raluca RaduFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint ibidem-Verlag, Jessica Haunschild u Christian SchonPublisher ibidem-Verlag, Jessica...

This book asks why, in the wake of the Cold War, Japan suddenly reversed years of steadfast opposition to security cooperation with its neighbors. Long isolated and opposed to multilateral agreements, Japan proposed East Asia's first multilateral...

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...