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Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Future of International Nonproliferation Policy
Av Nathan E. Busch, Daniel H. Joyner
Inbunden, 2009
1266 kr
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The spread of weapons of mass destruction poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security in modern times—the specter of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons looms over relations among many countries. The September 11 tragedy and other terrorist attacks have been painful …
From Superpower to Besieged Global Power
Restoring World Order after the Failure of the Bush Doctrine
Av Edward A. Kolodziej, Roger E. Kanet
Häftad, 2008
528 kr
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The essays in this volume argue that the Bush Doctrine, as outlined in the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, squandered enormous military and economic resources, diminished American power, and undermined America’s moral reputation as a defender of democratic values and …
Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Future of International Nonproliferation Policy
Av Nathan E. Busch, Daniel H. Joyner
Häftad, 2009
528 kr
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The spread of weapons of mass destruction poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security in modern times—the specter of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons looms over relations among many countries. The September 11 tragedy and other terrorist attacks have been painful …
Nonproliferation Norms
Why States Choose Nuclear Restraint
Häftad, 2009
496 kr
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Too often, our focus on the relative handful of countries with nuclear weapons keeps us from asking an important question: Why do so many more states not have such weapons? More important, what can we learn from these examples of nuclear restraint? Maria Rost Rublee argues that in addition to …
Understanding Life in the Borderlands
Boundaries in Depth and in Motion
Inbunden, 2010
1213 kr
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The past two decades have seen an intense, interdisciplinary interest in the border areas between states—inhabited territories located on the margins of a power center or between power centers. This timely and highly original collection of essays edited by noted scholar I. William Zartman is an …
Understanding Life in the Borderlands
Boundaries in Depth and in Motion
Häftad, 2010
463 kr
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The past two decades have seen an intense, interdisciplinary interest in the border areas between states—inhabited territories located on the margins of a power center or between power centers. This timely and highly original collection of essays edited by noted scholar I. William Zartman is an …
Women, Gender, and Terrorism
Av Laura Sjoberg, Caron E. Gentry
Inbunden, 2011
1180 kr
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In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women’s participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women’s relationship with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world.Throughout most of the twentieth …
Slaying the Nuclear Dragon
Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century
Av David Santoro, Tanya Ogilvie-White m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
1299 kr
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In recent decades the debate on nuclear weapons has focused overwhelmingly on proliferation and nonproliferation dynamics. In a series of Wall Street Journal articles, however, George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn called on governments to rid the world of nuclear weapons, …
Enduring Territorial Disputes
Strategies of Bargaining, Coercive Diplomacy, and Settlement
Inbunden, 2011
1261 kr
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Of all the issues in international relations, disputes over territory are the most salient and most likely to lead to armed conflict. Understanding their endurance is of paramount importance. Although many states have settled their disagreements over territory, seventy-one disputes involving nearly …
Conflict Dynamics
Civil Wars, Armed Actors, and Their Tactics
Av Alethia H. Cook, Marie Olson Lounsbery
Inbunden, 2017
1020 kr
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Conflict Dynamics presents case studies of six nation-states: Sierra Leone, the Republic of Congo, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Indonesia, and Peru. In the book, Alethia H. Cook and Marie Olson Lounsbery examine the evolving nature of violence in intrastate conflicts, as well as the governments and groups …
Wars of Disruption and Resilience
Cybered Conflict, Power, and National Security
Inbunden, 2011
1299 kr
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Increasingly, the power of a large, complex, wired nation like the United States rests on its ability to disrupt would-be cyber attacks and to be resilient against a successful attack or recurring campaign. Addressing the concerns of both theorists and those on the national security front lines, …
Containing Russia's Nuclear Firebirds
Harmony and Change at the International Science and Technology Center
Inbunden, 2013
1299 kr
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In Containing Russia’s Nuclear Firebirds, Glenn E. Schweitzer explores the life and legacy of the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow. He makes the case that the center’s unique programs can serve as models for promoting responsible science in many countries of the world.Never …
Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate
Memories of Empire in a New Global Context
Häftad, 2011
474 kr
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China's sense of today and its view of tomorrow are both rooted in the past—and we need to understand that connection, says China scholar Charles Horner. In Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, Horner offers a new interpretation of how China's changed view of its modern historical experience has …
Stuck
Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood
Av Marc Sommers
Inbunden, 2012
1261 kr
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Young people are transforming the global landscape. As the human population today is younger and more urban than ever before, prospects for achieving adulthood dwindle while urban migration soars. Devastated by genocide, hailed as a spectacular success, and critiqued for its human rights record, …
Stuck
Rwandan Youth and the Struggle for Adulthood
Av Marc Sommers
Häftad, 2012
595 kr
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Young people are transforming the global landscape. As the human population today is younger and more urban than ever before, prospects for achieving adulthood dwindle while urban migration soars. Devastated by genocide, hailed as a spectacular success, and critiqued for its human rights record, …
Enduring Territorial Disputes
Strategies of Bargaining, Coercive Diplomacy, and Settlement
Häftad, 2011
512 kr
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Of all the issues in international relations, disputes over territory are the most salient and most likely to lead to armed conflict. Understanding their endurance is of paramount importance. Although many states have settled their disagreements over territory, seventy-one disputes involving nearly …
Future of Just War
New Critical Essays
Av Caron E. Gentry, Amy E. Eckert
Inbunden, 2014
1180 kr
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Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is …
Women, Gender, and Terrorism
Av Laura Sjoberg, Caron E. Gentry
Häftad, 2011
430 kr
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In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women’s participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women’s relationship with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world.Throughout most of the twentieth …
Wars of Disruption and Resilience
Cybered Conflict, Power, and National Security
Häftad, 2011
527 kr
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Increasingly, the power of a large, complex, wired nation like the United States rests on its ability to disrupt would-be cyber attacks and to be resilient against a successful attack or recurring campaign. Addressing the concerns of both theorists and those on the national security front lines, …
Slaying the Nuclear Dragon
Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century
Av David Santoro, Tanya Ogilvie-White m. fl.
Häftad, 2012
527 kr
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In recent decades the debate on nuclear weapons has focused overwhelmingly on proliferation and nonproliferation dynamics. In a series of Wall Street Journal articles, however, George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn called on governments to rid the world of nuclear weapons, …
Unfinished Business
Why International Negotiations Fail
Inbunden, 2012
1278 kr
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Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their subject. With a few notable exceptions, analysts have paid little attention to negotiations ending in failure. The essays in Unfinished Business show that as much, if not more, can be learned from failed negotiations as from …
Unfinished Business
Why International Negotiations Fail
Häftad, 2012
512 kr
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Most studies of international negotiations take successful talks as their subject. With a few notable exceptions, analysts have paid little attention to negotiations ending in failure. The essays in Unfinished Business show that as much, if not more, can be learned from failed negotiations as from …
Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control
Interests, Conflicts, and Justice
Inbunden, 2013
1261 kr
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This volume comprehensively covers a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological,and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines. Arms control policies of all of …
Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control
Interests, Conflicts, and Justice
Häftad, 2013
625 kr
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This volume comprehensively covers a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological,and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines. Arms control policies of all of …
Containing Russia's Nuclear Firebirds
Harmony and Change at the International Science and Technology Center
Häftad, 2013
527 kr
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In Containing Russia’s Nuclear Firebirds, Glenn E. Schweitzer explores the life and legacy of the International Science and Technology Center in Moscow. He makes the case that the center’s unique programs can serve as models for promoting responsible science in many countries of the world.Never …
International Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation
Inbunden, 2016
1283 kr
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International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons—rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however, …
Future of Just War
New Critical Essays
Av Caron E. Gentry, Amy E. Eckert
Häftad, 2014
474 kr
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Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation—a method and means of pushing its thinking forward. Now the Just War tradition risks becoming marginalized. This concern may seem out of place as Just War literature is …
Oil Sparks in the Amazon
Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources
Inbunden, 2014
1343 kr
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For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, resulting in great economic booms and busts or violence as rebels fight ruling governments over their regions’ hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon, Patricia I. Vasquez writes …
Oil Sparks in the Amazon
Local Conflicts, Indigenous Populations, and Natural Resources
Häftad, 2014
444 kr
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For decades, studies of oil-related conflicts have focused on the effects of natural resource mismanagement, resulting in great economic booms and busts or violence as rebels fight ruling governments over their regions’ hydrocarbon resources. In Oil Sparks in the Amazon, Patricia I. Vasquez writes …
State Behavior and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
Inbunden, 2014
2352 kr
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This is the first book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime—even as they formally support it. Anchored by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the nuclear nonproliferation regime is the constellation of …
