Arms Control category: 475 books
Strategic Cyber Deterrence
The Active Cyber Defense Option
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
According to the FBI, about 4000 ransomware attacks happen every day. In the United States alone, victims lost $209 million to ransomware in the first quarter of 2016. Even worse is the threat to critical infrastructure, as seen by the malware infections at electrical distribution companies in Ukraine...
Nuclear Terrorism
Countering the Threat
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This volume aims to improve understanding of nuclear security and the prevention of nuclear terrorism.
Nuclear terrorism is perceived as one of the most immediate and extreme threats to global security today. While the international community has made important progress in securing fissile...
Terrorist Organizations and Weapons of Mass Destruction
U.S. Threats, Responses, and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Weapons of Mass Destruction are diverse and pose unique challenges to governments attempting to keep them out of the wrong hands and preparing to respond to an attack. This text analyzes Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) weapons and terrorist groups with a known interest in them....
Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction
Assessing the U.S. Government's Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
The Cold War phrase “weapons of mass destruction” continues to be used despite significant changes in international political cultures, military concepts of operation, and technology advances. Today, the term “weapons of mass destruction” (WMD) is used to address many things, from grams of...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 25, 2003
This book examines the development of peace research and explores its present challenges, focusing on the contribution made by the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute. The authors investigate how peace research relates to security studies and international relations, providing a comprehensive study of conceptual innovations and a discussion of secu
Before Intelligence Failed
British Secret Intelligence on Chemical and Biological Weapons in the Soviet Union, South Africa and Libya
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
In the wake of the 2003 Iraq War, the term 'intelligence failure' became synonymous with the Blair Government and how it had used intelligence to construct a case for war. This book examines British secret intelligence over the thirty years preceding its very public failings. From the Soviet Union...
Iran and Nuclear Weapons
Protracted Conflict and Proliferation
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2009
This book investigates what is driving Iran's nuclear weapons programme in a less-hostile regional environment, using a theory of protracted conflicts to explicate proliferation.
Iran’s nuclear weapons program has alarmed the international community since the 1990s, but has come to the forefront...
Superpower Rivalry and Conflict
The Long Shadow of the Cold War on the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2009
Variously described by historians and thinkers as the ‘most terrible century in Western history’, ‘a century of massacres and wars’ and the ‘most violent century in human history’, the 20th century – and in particular the period between the First World War and the collapse of the USSR...
The Future of Just War
New Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is...
by Martin C. Libicki
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2013
Deterrence is possible only when others have at least a good idea of possible U.S. military reprisals, but cyberattack capabilities resist such demonstration. This report explores ways they can be and under what circumstances, then goes on to examine the difficulties and the drawbacks. Such "brandishing"...
Selling Reagan's Foreign Policy
Going Public vs. Executive Bargaining
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
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 each is related in one way or another to...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The relationship of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty with India has been an interesting subject in the field of security studies. The nuclearisation of India and its subsequent rise are further forcing the world to redefine its relationship with the treaty. However, the international response...
Contemporary West Asia: Perspectives on Change and Continuity
Perspectives on Change and Continuity
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the complexities of change and continuity in West Asia, its society, religion and politics. An overview of the region’s political, social and economic characteristics brought into sharper relief with the on-going turmoil in the region constitutes the...
by D. John Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2008
This pioneering text brings together for the first time the global institutions on the front line of the campaign against hunger and poverty.
The institutions examined in this book – the Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD),...