Arms Control

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633918276Author Ilayda AydinFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Westphalia PressPublisher Westphalia PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 127mm...

Pioneering antinuclear activist Helen Caldicott assembles the world's leading nuclear scientists and thought leaders to assess the political and scientific dimensions of the threat of nuclear war today. Chapters include the size and distribution of the...

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This book analyzes Myanmar's contemporary political history, arguing that Myanmar's so-called "democratization" has always been a calculated regime transition, planned by the military, with every intention that the military to remain the key permanent...

This timely and fast-paced book by celebrated Iranian-born journalist Amir Taheri examines the history of the Khomeinist movement in Iran to show how it is genetically programmed for war. It will also show how Khomeinsim can be defeated, enabling Iran to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910814567Author Alasdair McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 266Imprint E-International RelationsPublisher E-International RelationsWeight(grams)...

Policymakers worry that "ungoverned spaces" pose dangers to security and development. Why do such spaces exist beyond the authority of the state? Earlier scholarship-which addressed this question with a list of domestic failures-overlooked the crucial...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973714753Author Michel ChossudovskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Global Research, Centre for Research on GlobalizationPublisher Global Research,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888903198Author Anders CorrFormat PaperbackPage Count 300Imprint Optimum Publishing InternationalPublisher Optimum Publishing InternationalWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780820332352Author Maria Rost RubleeFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Georgia PressPublisher University of Georgia PressWeight(grams) 444g

Over the last seven decades, some states successfully leveraged the threat of acquiring atomic weapons to compel concessions from superpowers. For many others, however, this coercive gambit failed to work. When does nuclear latency--the technical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262543316Author Mark WolvertonFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

Moral theologians, defense analysts, conflict scholars, and nuclear experts imagine a world free from nuclear weapons At a 2017 Vatican conference, Pope Francis condemned nuclear weapons. This volume, issued after the 60th anniversary of the Cuban...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807050057Author Philip C. WinslowFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon PressWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620456491Author Norman PolmarFormat PaperbackPage Count 412Imprint WileyPublisher WileyWeight(grams) 576g

The debate over national security and arms control has focused primarily on weapons-more or fewer weapons, different kinds of weapons. Hawks tend to see the immediate cause of war as one-sided weakness that tempts an aggressive adversary. For Doves, the...

The increased military employment of remotely operated aerial vehicles, also known as drones, has raised a wide variety of important ethical questions, concerns, and challenges. Many of these have not yet received the serious scholarly examination such...

Do Americans care what foreigners think about the United States? This book makes the case that they should. In these pages, Jorge Castaneda writes from his unique vantage point as a former Foreign Minister of Mexico who has lived, studied, and worked in...

The United States maintains defense ties with as many as 60 countries, which not only enables its armed forces to maintain command globally and to project its force widely, but also enables its government to exert leverage over allies' foreign policies...

Taking Aim at The Arms Trade: NGOs, Global Civil Society and the World Military Order takes a critical look at the ways in which NGOs portray the arms trade as a problem of international politics and the strategies they use to effect change. NGOs have...

The Western liberal democratic world order, which seemingly triumphed following the collapse of communism, is looking increasingly fragile as populists and nationalists take power in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, as the momentum of...

Explores theory for bringing the rules of war into alignment with increasingly digital and limited means of warfareBook InformationISBN 9781474444224Author Jai GalliottFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Edinburgh University PressPublisher Edinburgh...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards are one of the most important forces in the Middle East today. As the appointed defender of Iran's revolution, the Guards have evolved into a pillar of the Islamic Republic and the spearhead of its influence. Their sway has...