Arms Control category: 475 books
South Asia's Cold War
Nuclear Weapons and Conflict in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008
This book is a ground-breaking analysis of the India-Pakistan nuclear confrontation as a form of ‘cold war’ – that is, a hostile relationship between nuclear rivals.
Drawing on nuclear rivalries between similar pairs (United States-Soviet Union, United States-China, Soviet Union-China,...
Precision Strike Warfare and International Intervention
Strategic, Ethico-Legal and Decisional Implications
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
This book explores whether the new capabilities made possible by precision-strike technologies are reshaping approaches to international intervention.
Since the end of the Cold War, US technological superiority has led to a more proactive and, some would argue, high risk approach to international...
Chinese Anti-Ship Ballistic Missile (ASBM) Development
Drivers, Trajectories, and Strategic Implications
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
China’s anti-ship ballistic missile (ASBM), the DF-21D, has reached the equivalent of Initial Operational Capability. Although it probably has been deployed in small numbers, additional challenges and tests remain. This study examines the ASBM’s capability and history, showing how the DF-21D meets...
The Edge
Is the Military Dominance of the West Coming to an End?
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2015
The size of western armed forces, their stocks of weaponry and their readiness for combat are declining. Meanwhile, growing nationalism is hampering international cooperation and fuelling conflict everywhere. The west's will - as well as its capability - to shape the world is ebbing away.
Beset...
by James Ballou
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
Global economic meltdown. Widespread natural disaster. Disease pandemic. It doesn't matter the cause. In the coming Dark Age, the delicate supply infrastructures of modern society will collapse, and you will no longer have access to groceries, gasoline . . . or guns.
The time to assemble your...
by Harsh V. Pant, Yogesh Joshi
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2018
India has come a long way from being a nuclear pariah to a de facto member of the nuclear club. The transition in its nuclear identity has been accompanied by its transformation into a major economic power and underlines a pragmatic turn in its foreign-policy thinking. This book provides a historical...
The Soviet Biological Weapons Program
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2012
This is the first attempt to understand the full scope of the USSR’s offensive biological weapons research, from inception in the 1920s. Gorbachev tried to end the program, but the U.S. and U.K. never obtained clear evidence that he succeeded, raising the question whether the means for waging biological warfare could be present in Russia today.
Unending Crisis
National Security Policy After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012
In Unending Crisis, Thomas Graham Jr. examines the second Bush administration's misguided management of foreign policy, the legacy of which has been seven major--and almost irresolvable--national security crises involving North Korea, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, the Arab-Israeli conflict in...
United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice
Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2016
In United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics, Zachary D. Kaufman explores the U.S. government's support for, or opposition to, certain transitional justice institutions. By first presenting an overview of possible responses to atrocities (such as war...
Atrocity, Deviance, and Submarine Warfare
Norms and Practices during the World Wars
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2013
In the early 20th century, the diesel-electric submarine made possible a new type of unrestricted naval warfare. Such brutal practices as targeting passenger, cargo, and hospital ships not only violated previous international agreements; they were targeted explicitly at civilians. A deviant form of...
The Ethics of Nuclear Weapons Dissemination
Moral Dilemmas of Aspiration, Avoidance and Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2015
This book examines the moral dilemmas of nuclear dissemination, and the justifications of both nuclear pursuit and avoidance by contemporary states.
Applying Constructivist methodologies and moral theory, the author analyses a core set of moral dilemmas that ensnare decision-makers amongst...
Santa giusta umanitaria
La guerra nella civiltà occidentale
Language: Italian
Release Date: November 29, 2015
Plurimillenaria, spesso appassionata, talora sofferta ma sempre rigorosa, è la riflessione sulla guerra: poderosi (e ponderosi) sistemi speculativi sono stati innalzati per giustificare sotto il profilo giuridico e politico il ricorso alle armi. Ai nostri giorni i tentativi di afferrare concettualmente...
Cold peace
UN Security council: World government Vs. Powerfull dominion
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 16, 2018
Since its formation the UN Council has been the main "actor" for the maintenance of international security. This essay focuses on the study of the Council and the comparison of the main liberal assumptions with those of the realistic theory. The various liberal authors confronting the international...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Excessive military spending reduces the available financial reserves for health, education, and other human needs. For poor countries, it increases poverty, unemployment, and destitution. It also strengthens dictatorial tendencies in politics and acts against democratic values. If we want to achieve...