Arms Control category: 475 books
The Four Flashpoints
How Asia Goes to War
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2018
A timely account of the four most troubled hotspots in the world’s most combustible region
Asia is at a dangerous moment. China is rising fast, and its regional ambitions are growing. Reckless North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un may be assembling more nuclear weapons, despite diplomatic efforts...
Challenged Hegemony
The United States, China, and Russia in the Persian Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2018
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 undergone tumultuous changes, with dramatic shifts in...
The Politics of Protection
Sites of Insecurity and Political Agency
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2006
This new book shows how from the end of the Cold War, the security agenda has been transformed and redefined, academically and politically.
It focuses on the theme of protection. It moves away from the dominant question of whom or what is threatening to the crucial questions of who is to be...
Demilitarization and International Law in Context
The Åland Islands
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
The demilitarisation and neutralisation of the Åland Islands is a confirmation of, and an exception to, the collective security system in present-day international affairs. Its core idea is that there is no need for military presence in the territory of the islands and that they are to be kept out...
Armed Groups
The 21st Century Threat
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
In this age of asymmetric warfare, battles are fought more and more against armed groups of opponents such as terrorists, insurgents, or transnational criminal organizations. This text is the first to categorize armed groups and analyze their characteristics in a systematic way to provide a thorough...
When Proliferation Causes Peace
The Psychology of Nuclear Crises
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Does state acquisition of nuclear weapons lead to stability and peace or instability and crises? This is one of the great debates in international relations scholarship. Michael D. Cohen argues that nuclear weapons acquisition often does dangerously embolden the acquiring state to undertake coercion...
Chinese Nuclear Proliferation
How Global Politics Is Transforming China's Weapons Buildup and Modernization
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
While the world’s attention is focused on the nuclearization of North Korea and Iran and the nuclear brinkmanship between India and Pakistan, China is believed to have doubled the size of its nuclear arsenal, making it “the forgotten nuclear power,” as described in Foreign Affairs. Susan Turner...
Indoktrination in der Schule
Wie Menschen zu gehorsamen Arbeitern erzogen werden
Language: German
Release Date: July 19, 2017
Mittlerweile weiß fast jeder aufgeklärte Mensch, dass man den Massenmedien nicht trauen kann.
Doch nicht nur die Nachrichten und die Tageszeitungen manipulieren uns. Die größte Indoktrination findet in den Schulen und Universitäten statt.
Die allgemeine Schulpflicht wurde nicht eingeführt, um...
by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
A preface notes the scope of the essay, points out how pacifism, warmongering go together to disarm the US. Points out that these are all Whore Babylon plots using various devious means: Communism, pacifism, religion, atheism, skepticism, political movements. Chapter 1 discusses 'Fail Safe', 'Dr....
Iran's Nuclear Program and International Law
From Confrontation to Accord
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This book provides an international legal analysis of the most important questions regarding Iran's nuclear program since 2002. Setting these legal questions in their historical and diplomatic context, this book aims to clarify how the relevant sources of international law - including primarily the...
The Drone Debate
A Primer on the U.S. Use of Unmanned Aircraft Outside Conventional Battlefields
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
The Drone Debate offers a thorough investigation of the where, why, how, and when of the U.S.’s use of UAVs. Beginning with a historical overview of the use of drones in warfare, it then addresses whether targeted killing operations are strategically wise, whether they are permissible under international...
Cross-Cultural Competence for a Twenty-First-Century Military
Culture, the Flipside of COIN
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Warfare in the 21st century is far different than warfare throughout the 19th and 20th centuries. Conventional warfare was about kinetic force and bending an adversary by might and strength. Skills valued were those related to mastery of weapons and placing ordnance on target. Courage and valor were...
Flugschreiber
Notizen aus der Außenpolitik in Krisenzeiten
Language: German
Release Date: December 2, 2016
Wir leben in turbulenten Zeiten. Internationale Krisen häufen sich, und sie rücken näher an Europa heran. An die Deutschen richten sich wachsende Erwartungen, zur Lösung internationaler Konflikte beizutragen, und sie nehmen sie ernst. Frank-Walter Steinmeier, einer der erfahrensten Außenpolitiker...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
While policy makers and scholars have long devoted considerable attention to strategies like deterrence, which threaten others with unacceptable consequences, such threat-based strategies are not always the best option. In some cases, a state may be better off seeking to give others a greater sense...