Arms Control category: 475 books
Action for Disarmament
10 Things You Can Do!
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This publication speaks to young people by encouraging them to engage in an active and thoughtful way in this important issue for all of humankind. It is full of practical ideas including starting a discussion group, hosting a film screening, or creating an event where students and their friends can...
Emerging Transnational (In)security Governance
A Statist-Transnationalist Approach
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2010
This book presents a selection of edited essays written by leading international scholars engaging with practicing intelligence, military, and police officers and responding to their first-hand international security cooperation experiences. The resulting chapters provide original theoretical perspectives...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
In order to sustain the current international system organized around American-led alliances, the United States may need to be able to confront challenges posed by revisionist powers armed with nuclear weapons. Immature or transitional nuclear powers are likely to pose especially pressing problems...
Libya and Nuclear Proliferation
Stepping Back from the Brink
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
This Adelphi Paper examines the motives behind Libya‘s pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability, from Gadhafi‘s rise to power in 1969 through to the end of 2003. It also assesses the proliferation pathways that the regime followed during this period, including early dependence on Soviet technology...
Tactical Nuclear Weapons and Euro-Atlantic Security
The future of NATO
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
This book offers a comprehensive examination of the important security issue of tactical nuclear weapons in Europe.
Nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament have returned to the top of the international political agenda. The issue assumes particular importance in regard to NATO, given that...
European Security and Defence Policy
An Implementation Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2008
Security and defence is the area in which the EU has advanced most in recent years. A principal element of this process is the proliferating number of military and civilian crisis management missions in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia. Clearly, Europe has come a long way since the disappointments...
Shaping U.S. Military Forces for the Asia-Pacific
Lessons from Conflict Management in Past Great Power Eras
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2014
The first twenty years of post-Cold War US defense and diplomatic policies toward Asia have looked a good deal like the previous 50, namely: continued deterrence based upon overwhelming, offensive military predominance. In East Asia, all powers harbor common and divergent interests based on fragmented...
Cluster Munitions and International Law
Disarmament With a Human Face?
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book offers a comprehensive argument for why pre-existing international law on cluster munitions was inadequate to deal with the full scope of humanitarian consequences associated with their use. The book undertakes an interdisciplinary legal analysis of restraints and prohibitions on the use...
Iran's Nuclear Diplomacy
Power politics and conflict resolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This book examines the dynamics of relations and the substance of the negotiations between the international community and Iran over the latter's nuclear programme***.***
Iran’s nuclear programme and the alleged threat to international peace and security remains one of the most important...
War With Iran
Political, Military, and Economic Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
War With Iran: Political, Military and Economic Consequences provides readers both a history of Iran’s relationship with the West and an expert’s estimation of what the political, human and financial costs of full-scale war with Iran might be. Authors Geoffrey Kemp and John Allen Gay of the Center...
China's Approach Towards Territorial Disputes: Lessons and Prospects
Lessons and Prospects
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016
China’s territorial disputes have been a matter of debate since the 1950s. While China has amicably resolved boundary disputes with 12 out of 14 neighbouring countries, it is yet to resolve its boundary disputes with India and Bhutan as also its two martime disputes in the South China Sea and East...
A New Trusteeship?
The International Administration of War-torn Territories
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
This paper analyses and assesses the effectiveness of international administrations of war-torn territories and discusses the key issues - strategic, political, and economic - that arise in the context of these experiences. It reflects on the policy implications of these experiences and recommends reforms or new approaches to international administration.
by Jeannie Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
With the accession of Cambodia in April 1999, the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) finally achieved its founding vision: the incorporation of all ten South-east Asian states. However, ASEAN-10 faces an unprecedented series of challenges, stemming from the organization's rapid enlargement...
Chinese Space Policy
A Study in Domestic and International Politics
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2006
This volume explains the beginnings and expansion of China's space program, analyzing how China is now able to hold such ambitions and how the interaction between technology, politics and economics has influenced the Chinese space program.
It opens by tracing out the earlier development of...