Arms negotiation and control

Since 2001, the United States has endured a tumultuous period, one dominated by the 9/11 attacks and all that has followed: the war on terrorism, the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns, looming confrontations with known or suspected proliferators of weapons of mass destruction, and episodic explosions of mass violence in chronically unstable regions.

This book surveys the broad terrain covered by the concept of 'the security dilemma' and points out landmarks along the route proceeding from proliferation to economic interests, showing that the arms trade is built into development of both industrial technology and political competition.

A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for International Security and Cooperation publicationWhat role should nuclear weapons play in today's world?

Great power competition has returned after a generation of absence, and the U.

In an era when knowledge can travel with astonishing speed, the need for analysis of intellectual property (IP) law-and its focus on patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and issues of copyright-has never been greater.

We are dropping cyber bombs.

In December 1993, Secretary of Defense Les Aspin announced the Counterproliferation Initiative, a response to President Clinton's assertion that if we do not stem the proliferation of the world's deadliest weapons, no democracy can feel secure.

President Obama has just three years left in office to define his legacy in world affairs.

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Concise yet comprehensive, Building Your IR Theory Toolbox provides undergraduate students with the theoretical framework for understanding events in world politics.

One of the few up-to-date works on the whole of the arms trade, this book puts the global trade in weapons in the context of history and includes recent controversial deals, as well as case studies on Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Darfur.

In October, 1962, the Cuban missile crisis brought human civilization to the brink of destruction.

Former Pentagon insider Van Jackson explores how Trump and Kim reached - and avoided - the precipice of nuclear war.

More than half a century after the advent of the nuclear age, is the world approaching a tipping point that will unleash an epidemic of nuclear proliferation?

The Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with the country now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military strikes against its nuclear facilities and a disastrous Middle East war.

The Encyclopaedia of Arms Race, Arms Control and Disarmament, in twelve volumes, is a pioneering effort to bring together authoritative information on the theme.

North Korea has posed a threat to stability in Northeast Asia for decades.

In every decade of the nuclear era, one or two states have developed nuclear weapons despite the international community's opposition to proliferation.

Project Atom is a forward-looking, "e;blue-sky"e; review of U.

Russia is a post-communist country struggling to adapt to the modern world economically and politically.

Once dismissed as ineffectual, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has in the past twenty years emerged as a powerful international organization.

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A unique overview of the United States current nuclear command, control, and communications system and its modernization for the digital ageConcerns about the security of nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) systems are not new, but they are becoming more urgent.

The book examines Bernard Brodie's strategic and philosophical response to the nuclear age, embedding his work within the classical theories of Carl von Clausewitz.

Since 2001, the United States has endured a tumultuous period, one dominated by the 9/11 attacks and all that has followed: the war on terrorism, the Afghan and Iraqi campaigns, looming confrontations with known or suspected proliferators of weapons of mass destruction, and episodic explosions of mass violence in chronically unstable regions.

Harold Stassen (1907--2001) garnered accolades as the thirty-one-year-old "e;boy wonder"e; governor of Minnesota and quickly assumed a national role as aide to Admiral William Halsey Jr.

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Leading scholars analyse key dilemmas in the application of sanctions and inducements on states that violate international non-proliferation commitments.

Although there is often opposition to individual wars, most people continue to believe that the arms industry is necessary in some form: to safeguard our security, provide jobs and stimulate the economy.

In this volume, scientists write on the desirability and feasibility of eliminating nuclear weapons, including reflections 50 years after the destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by atomic bombs.

With the 2005 Review Conference of the nuclear non-proliferation treaty in the background, this book provides a fully detailed but accessible and accurate introduction to the technical aspects of nuclear energy and nuclear weapons for the specialist and non-specialist alike.

Highlights emerging trends and concerns regarding armed violence and small arms proliferation as well as related policies and programming.

Sanctions have enormous consequences.

An updated edition of ABC-CLIO's classic reference book on nuclear arms programs and proliferation in nations around the world.

The implementation of disarmament requirements imposed by the Security Council after the Second Gulf War established a strong and unequal power relationship between the United Nations and Iraq.

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.

An eye-opening account of the perils of Americas techno-spy empireEver since the earliest days of the Cold War, American intelligence agencies have launched spies in the sky, implanted spies in the ether, burrowed spies underground, sunk spies in the ocean, and even tried to control spies minds by chemical means.

The Encyclopaedia of Arms Race, Arms Control and Disarmament, in twelve volumes, is a pioneering effort to bring together authoritative information on the theme.

In an era when knowledge can travel with astonishing speed, the need for analysis of intellectual property (IP) law-and its focus on patents, trade secrets, trademarks, and issues of copyright-has never been greater.

In this revised edition of the highly praised Engaging India, Strobe Talbott updates his bestselling diplomatic account of America's parallel negotiations with India and Pakistan over nuclear proliferation in the late 1990s.

The technology controlling United States nuclear weapons predates the Internet.

Space has been militarized for over four decades.

This book examines China's participation in the United Nations (UN).

In the twenty-five years after 1989, the world enjoyed the deepest peace in history.

A decade before being proclaimed part of the "e;axis of evil,"e; North Korea raised alarms in Washington, Seoul, and Tokyo as the pace of its clandestine nuclear weapons program mounted.