Arms Control category: 475 books
Arms Control in the 21st Century
Between Coercion and Cooperation
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
This volume evaluates the impact of coercive arms control efforts to curb the spread of weapons of mass destruction in the twenty-first century.
A new paradigm in arms control is gradually replacing the idea that mutually agreed restrictions on armaments can improve international security....
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by Robert E. Williams Jr., Paul R. Viotti
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
Arms Control: History, Theory, and Policy features in-depth, expert analysis and information on the full spectrum of issues relating to this critical topic. The first major reference on arms control in over a decade, the two-volume set covers historical context, contemporary challenges, and emerging...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2013
While much attention is always given to issues of strategic and nuclear arms control, the conventional arms control agenda remains something of a stepchild. Nonetheless, in regards to European security, conventional arms control issues are of the utmost significance. Indeed, since Russia suspended...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2013
This paper offers a concise summary of many of the difficult issues presented in addressing this category of weapons within nuclear policy and posture, and particularly within the arms control arena. Its four direct findings are worthy of full consideration and debate as we rethink the place and role...
Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control
Interests, Conflicts, and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
This volume comprehensively covers a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological,and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines. Arms control policies of all of...
by Byron Goines
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
All current and future gun control advocates should have this box set in their book library as these two books can be utilized as effective training tools for Second Amendment debate with pro-gun facets of society.
BOOK ONE
In “Gun Control and The Second Amendment 2nd Edition Revised...
Humanization of Arms Control
Paving the Way for a World free of Nuclear Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Despite clear legal rules and political commitments, no significant progress has been made in nuclear disarmament for two decades. Moreover, not even the use of these weapons has been banned to date. New ideas and strategies are therefore necessary. The author explores an alternative approach to arms...
The Opportunity
Next Steps in Reducing Nuclear Arms
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. But, as Brookings scholars Steven Pifer and Michael O'Hanlon argue in The Opportunity, arms control can address some key security challenges facing Washington...
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The Post-Cold War Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2015
All four post-Cold War presidents have attempted to negotiate and ratify at least one major arms control agreement. However, their experiences with arms control treaty ratification have differed greatly from those of their Cold War predecessors. The main theme of this book is that domestic politics...
The Control Agenda
A History of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
The Control Agenda is a sweeping account of the history of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), their rise in the Nixon and Ford administrations, their downfall under President Carter, and their powerful legacies in the Reagan years and beyond.
Matthew Ambrose pays close attention to...
Dangerous Trade
Arms Exports, Human Rights, and International Reputation
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2015
The United Nations's groundbreaking Arms Trade Treaty (ATT), which went into effect in 2014, sets legally binding standards to regulate global arms exports and reflects the growing concerns toward the significant role that small and major conventional arms play in perpetuating human rights violations,...
US Strategic Arms Policy in the Cold War
Negotiation and Confrontation over SALT, 1969-1979
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2017
This book examines the negotiations between the USA and the USSR on the limitation of strategic arms during the Cold War, from 1969 to 1979.
The negotiations on the limitation of strategic arms, which were concluded in two agreements SALT I and SALT II (with only the first ratified), marked...
National Security and Arms Control in the Age of Biotechnology
The Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
This book accessibly and expertly details the history and implications of the BWC—the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention—a controversial arms control agreement drafted in the 1970’s meant to supplement the Geneva protocol for warfare from decades earlier. That treaty banned the use of biological...
India-Pakistan Nuclear Diplomacy
Constructivism and the Prospects for Nuclear Arms Control and Disarmament in South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Using a constructivist model, this study brings nuclear arms control and disarmament back into the debates on the future of Indo-Pakistani relations. Constructivism recognizes the independent impact of international norms, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Norm (NNPN), on India and Pakistan’s...