Arms Control category: 475 books
by Claudia Rosett
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
The United Nations is failing abysmally, and dangerously, in its mission. Founded in 1945 as a vehicle to avert war and promote human dignity and freedom, the U.N. has instead become a self-serving and ever-expanding haven of privilege for the world’s worst regimes, rife with bigotry, fraud, abuse,...
by Benjamin Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2010
Northern Ireland is currently enjoying a period of relative peace and stability unprecedented for much of the past half century. Such stability is the product of a variety of factors that has created conditions whereby Northern Ireland now runs its own political institutions for the first time since...
The DMZ
Dividing the Two Koreas
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Four kilometers wide and stretching 250 km from the East Sea to the West Sea, the Korean Demilitarized Zone divides the Korean Peninsula roughly in half, with the Republic of Korea to the south and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the north. Born of the fratricidal Korean War, it is perhaps...
by Bernice Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
How can fresh conflict between China and Taiwan be avoided? This paper argues that unless the key players - Taiwan, China and the US - accept the existence of a new and increasingly democratic Taiwan, the conflict across the Taiwan Straits will remain one of the most contentious and dangerous in East Asia.
by Robert D. Blackwill, Elliott Abrams, Robert M. Danin
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Iran: The Nuclear Challenge maps the objectives, tools, and strategies for dealing with one of the most vexing issues facing the United States and global community today. The book brings together leading expertsCFRs Elliott Abrams, Robert D. Blackwill, Robert M. Danin, Richard A. Falkenrath, Matthew...
Fallout
Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
Many Baby Boomers still recall crouching under their grade-school desks in frequent bomb drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis—a clear representation of how terrified the United States was of nuclear war. Thus far, we have succeeded in preventing such catastrophe, and this is partly due to the...
Binary Bullets
The Ethics of Cyberwarfare
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2016
Philosophical and ethical discussions of warfare are often tied to emerging technologies and techniques. Today we are presented with what many believe is a radical shift in the nature of war-the realization of conflict in the cyber-realm, the so-called "fifth domain" of warfare. Does an aggressive...
The al-Qaeda Franchise
The Expansion of al-Qaeda and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The al-Qaeda Franchise asks why al-Qaeda adopted a branching-out strategy, introducing seven franchises spread over the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. After all, transnational terrorist organizations can expand through other organizational strategies. Forming franchises was not an inevitable...
Conflict and Peace Building in Divided Societies
Responses to Ethnic Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2007
This groundbreaking book provides an integrated account of ethnic, nationality and sectarian conflicts in the contemporary world including the role of collective myths, the mass media and the ethnification of identities as contributors to ethnic conflicts and wars. In addition to many examples from...
Modern Warfare, Intelligence and Deterrence
The technologies that are transforming them
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
The Panzerfaust-3, a German shoulder-fired heat-seeking antitank missile, can punch through a metre of solid steel-far more than any armoured vehicle could carry. The MPR-500, an Israeli precision bomb, can hammer through several storeys of a building and explode on a chosen floor.
These and myriad...
Harold Stassen
Eisenhower, the Cold War, and the Pursuit of Nuclear Disarmament
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Harold Stassen (1907--2001) garnered accolades as the thirty-one-year-old "boy wonder" governor of Minnesota and quickly assumed a national role as aide to Admiral William Halsey Jr. during World War II. When Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected in 1952, Stassen was named director of the Mutual...
by Massimo Franco
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: September 29, 2016
Da più di due secoli i destini di Stati Uniti e Vaticano si incrociano, contribuendo a plasmare la storia, la cultura e l’identità dell’intero Occidente. Da tempo lo Stato più potente del mondo e quello più piccolo e disarmato sono percepiti come le uniche due realtà dell’Ovest ad avere...
Chilcot Report
Executive Summary
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Ordered in 2009 by the then Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, the Chilcot Report is the official verdict on Britain's conduct before, during and after the Iraq war in 2003.
Named after its chairman Sir John Chilcot, a retired civil servant, the committee - formally the Iraq Inquiry - reported its...
Iran's Nuclear Future
Critical U.S. Policy Choices
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
As Iran's nuclear program evolves, U.S. decisionmakers will confront a series of critical policy choices involving complex considerations and policy trade-offs. These policy choices could involve dissuading Iran from developing nuclear weapons; deterring Iran from using its nuclear weapons, if it...