{"title":"Arms negotiation and control Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"leveraging-latency-how-the-weak-compel-the-strong-with-nuclear-technology-disruptive-technology-and-international-security-9780197669532","title":"Leveraging Latency How the Weak Compel the Strong","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis creative and well-researched book convincingly shows that relatively weak states can coerce stronger superpowers by threatening to build nuclear weapons. It teaches us that having the mere capacity to make nuclear weapons—known as 'nuclear latency'—can shape international relations. 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[T]his book will be of interest to those drawn to the anti-nuclear movement and those looking for an uncommon viewpoint on the event. * Publishers Weekly *\u003cbr\u003e“This book builds in intensity, from the first shocking page to the last sober reflection. The sensory material about the impact of the U.S. low-level flights over Cuba is perfect, brilliant. These are true war sounds. It’s great to have this dimension in the book. Reading this book in the age of Trump is truly horrifying: the IMAX version of the most dangerous moment in recorded history.” -- Edward T. 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This book encourages us to rid the world of nuclear weapons, and terrifies us with an unforgettable understanding of what happens if we don’t.” -- Phil Alden Robinson, director and screenwriter\u003cbr\u003e“The authors do two rare things for the reader: they entertain in this genuinely funny book about Armageddon (!), while they inform deeply. Blight and Lang gracefully weave a fabric of scholarship, literature, and memory to provide not merely the facts of this haunting episode, but the broader meaning of nuclear annihilation—which is what was at stake in 1962.  They draw on cultural artifacts—everything from Lord Byron to Cormac McCarthy—to brace and explore the meaning of the nuclear peril.  And that is a peril, they convincingly remind us, which remains with us today and demands new attention.  They challenge millennials to recognize the danger and act to abolish nuclear weapons.  Dark Beyond Darkness should be atop every citizen’s reading list.” -- John Tirman, executive director of the MIT Center for International Studies\u003cbr\u003e“This groundbreaking book addresses the challenge of understanding those in small countries—those who in 1962, and still today, have been on the dark edge of annihilation by nuclear or conventional means.” -- Rafael Hernandez, founder and editor of \u003ci\u003eTemas\u003ci\u003e magazine, published in Havana, Cuba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAuthors’ Note Prologue: Armageddon in Retrospect: On the Road with Papa \u0026amp; The Boy  Part One: Dark  Chapter 1: \tShit (Almost) Happened in October 1962: The Struggle to Avoid Armageddon Involves the Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting.  Chapter 2: \tThe Bullshit: Bad Guys Threaten; Good Guys Stand Firm; Good Guys Win; Bad Guys Lose; the Little Guy Doesn’t Matter; JFK’s Moxie Prevails.  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Liberalism, Constitutional Nationalism, and Minorities: The Making of Romanian Citizenship, c. 17501918; Sabrina P. Ramet. Interwar East Central Europe, 19181941: The Failure of Democracy-building, the Fate of Minorities; Dorina Roșca. Le grand tournant de la société moldave. 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Remarks by President Barack Obama at New START Treaty Signing Ceremony Appendix F. Ploughshares Fund Acknowledgments Notes Index","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400273338711,"sku":"9780231164047","price":48.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780231164047.jpg?v=1730470253"},{"product_id":"anticipating-a-nuclear-iran-9780231166225","title":"Anticipating a Nuclear Iran","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe strategic and political implications of an already-nuclear rogue power.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDavis and Pfaltzgraff have chosen to tackle a subject few others have: that Iran might actually succeed in its quest to get 'the bomb' and how it might behave as a result. 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This book, by contrast, analyzes an important continuity that, the author argues, will characterize international strategic affairs well into the new century: nuclear deterrence will remain at the core of the security policies of the world''s great powers and will continue to be an attractive option for many less powerful states worried about adversaries whose capabilities they cannot match.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe central role of nuclear deterrence persists despite the advent of a new international system in which serious military threats are no longer obvious, the use of force is judged irrelevant to resolving most international disputes, and states'' interests are increasingly defined in economic rather than military terms. 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Goldstein's insights . . . have great applicability for understanding post-Cold War security dynamics and similar patterns shaping the behavior of both \u003ci\u003enew nuclear states \u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ewould-be nulcear states\u003c\/i\u003e\" -- \u003ci\u003eInternational Politics\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book is welcome for the historical analyses of the smaller nuclear powers. . . .\"—\u003ci\u003eAmerican Political Science Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Goldstein's excellent book helps explain why three very different countries—Britain, France, and China—all sought an independent nuclear deterrent despite, and, perhaps, because of their security alliances with nuclear superpowers. This accessible and well-crafted work will be useful not only to diplomatic historians and international relations theorists, but also to policy analysts who are examining why certain relatively weak states are currently pursuing the nuclear option.\" -- Thomas Christensen * Massachusetts Institute of Technology *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDeterrence and Security in the 21st Century is a valuable and provocative contribution to the current debate about the future of nuclear deterrence.\"\u003c\/i\u003e -- Journal of Strategic Studies\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A decade after the end of the cold war, nuclear issues have come to the fore again, but the focus now is much less on superpowers and much more on middle or regional powers. In a subtle combination of theory and empirical cases, Professor Goldstein examines the trade offs confronting states considering the nuclear option. This book is essential reading for anyone studying deterrence theory or nuclear proliferation.\" -- Robert Powell, University of California * Berkeley *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1. Introduction; 2. Theoretical foundation; 3. China: strategic choices: 4. China: nuclear deterrent; 5. Britain; 6. France; 7. Nuclear weapons states in the post-Cold War world; 8. Legacy of the nuclear revolution for the twenty-first century.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405553934679,"sku":"9780804746861","price":25.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804746861.jpg?v=1730492810"},{"product_id":"over-the-horizon-proliferation-threats-9780804774000","title":"Over the Horizon Proliferation Threats","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Wirtz and Lavoy assembled top experts to consider which countries might go nuclear next. 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