Arms Control category: 475 books
by J.A. Hobson
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
First published in 1915, Towards International Government considers the consequences of war for global diplomacy and the alliance system. Hobson argues that, to reduce armaments and the possibility of another world war, an organisational structure of international government must be put into place....
Maoism, Democracy and Globalisation
Cross-currents in Indian Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2014
Maoism, democracy and globalization are three distinct but inseparable currents marking Indian politics today. They are distinct in terms of their goals, direction, and modalities of forging social, political, economic and even cultural change, while mutually influencing each other in the emergent...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2018
The European Union has increasingly taken on a role as international security provider that extends beyond the geographical scope of its membership. This is clear from the wide range of military and civilian crisis management missions that the Union has undertaken, but also identifiable through its...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
There are important changes in regional and global demographics ahead of us. A profound rise in the number of citizens in the Indian Ocean Region in the next fifty years will have significant impacts on the state, on the nature and operation of markets and the neo-liberal framework they operate in,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2004
Following the end of the Cold War and in the context of globalization, this book examines the extent to which member states dominate decision making in international organizations and whether non-state actors, for example non-governmental organizations and multinational corporations, are influential....
by Wilfred Wan, Scott Jones, Sara Z. Kutchesfahani
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This book makes a case for a reorientation of the nuclear nonproliferation regime, posing an alternative conceptualization of nuclear order centered on the regional level. It draws on an array of theoretical tools from the literatures on regionalism, security governance, and international institutions,...
Countering the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction
NATO and EU Options in the Mediterranean and the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2007
As counter-profileration is expected to become the central element in the new national security policy of the US, such actions will constitute a central element of every major international conflict in the first decades of the 21st century. One of the most important geostrategic phenomena of the past decade has been the extraordinary diffusion of w
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Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
In every decade of the nuclear era, one or two states have developed nuclear weapons despite the international community's opposition to proliferation. In the coming years, the breakdown of security arrangements, especially in the Middle East and Northeast Asia, could drive additional countries to...
The End of Strategic Stability?
Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
During the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would compete for global influence but would be deterred from using nuclear weapons. In actuality, both sides understood strategic stability and deterrence quite differently....
Strategy in the Second Nuclear Age
Power, Ambition, and the Ultimate Weapon
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
A “second nuclear age” has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it has changed the familiar nuclear geometry of the Cold War. Increasing potency of nuclear arsenals in China, India, and Pakistan, the nuclear breakout in North...
Security at a Price
The International Politics of U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
This volume in the Weapons of Mass Destruction series makes the case that the United States’ expansive missile defence policy has eroded both its own security and that of its allies. These findings are based on an examination of the response of a number of key states to U.S. policy, including Russia,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Nuclear-armed adversaries India and Pakistan have fought three wars since their creation as sovereign states in 1947. They went to the brink of a fourth in 2001 following an attack on the Indian parliament, which the Indian government blamed on the Pakistan-backed Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed...
Stopping the Bomb
The Sources and Effectiveness of US Nonproliferation Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
Stopping the Bomb examines the historical development and effectiveness of American efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. Nicholas L. Miller offers here a novel theory that argues changes in American nonproliferation policy are the keys to understanding the nuclear landscape from the 1960s...
Learning from the Cold War
Rebuilding America's Strategic Vision in the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
An ingenious look at the Cold War?and how it can help America move forward
Adding a fresh perspective to the debate about America?s options in the ?war on terror,? this lucid retrospective by one of the most admired voices in the national security arena answers an important and largely ignored...