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Book SynopsisNorth Korea remains a puzzle to Americans. How did this country—one of the most isolated in the world and in the policy cross hairs of every U.S. administration during the past 30 years—progress from zero nuclear weapons in 2001 to a threatening arsenal of perhaps 50 such weapons in 2021? Hinge Points brings readers literally inside the North Korean nuclear program, joining Siegfried Hecker to see what he saw and hear what he heard in his visits to North Korea from 2004 to 2010. Hecker goes beyond the technical details—described in plain English from his on-the-ground experience at the North's nuclear center at Yongbyon—to put the nuclear program exactly where it belongs, in the context of decades of fateful foreign policy decisions in Pyongyang and Washington. Describing these decisions as "hinge points," he traces the consequences of opportunities missed by both sides. The result has been that successive U.S. administrations have been unable to prevent the North, with the weakest of hands, from becoming one of only three countries in the world that might target the United States with nuclear weapons. Hecker's unique ability to marry the technical with the diplomatic is well informed by his interactions with North Korean and U.S. officials over many years, while his years of working with Russian, Chinese, Indian, and Pakistani nuclear officials have given him an unmatched breadth of experience from which to view and interpret the thinking and perspective of the North Koreans. Trade Review"Hinge Points is a must-read for any serious practitioner of foreign relations. Siegfried Hecker lays out a riveting narrative derived from his "man in the ring" experiences over several decades. His deep insights are highly relevant to the challenges deriving from a nuclear-capable North Korea playing out in real-time."—Vincent K. Brooks, General, U.S. Army (Retired)"With dramatic visits to North Korea's long-closed nuclear facilities, and a full cast of top nuclear scientists and diplomats, Hinge Points offers a remarkable account of how North Korea became a nuclear power. Only Siegfried Hecker could have written this sobering tale of why and how the US—with worrying consequences—continues to get North Korea wrong."—Mike Chinoy, USC US-China Institute"Written by a scientist who has actually walked around North Korea's nuclear complex, Hinge Points is a piercing analysis of the decades-long failure to curb Pyongyang's nuclear ambitions. With unparalleled mastery of both technical details and diplomatic complexities, Siegfried Hecker lays bare the history in a way that opens a future path to progress."—John Delury, Yonsei University"With Hinge Points, Siegfried Hecker offers unique insights into North Korea' dangerous nuclear program. And no-one is better qualified to do so. Hecker has visited the North and talked with their nuclear experts many times—and has held their plutonium in his (gloved) hand."—William J. Perry 19th U.S. Secretary of Defense"Hinge Points is an excellent book full of fascinating people and science and first-rate analysis from a man who has seen North Korea firsthand and knows better than most the dangers of a nuclear stand-off. The book lays bare Washington's missed opportunities to create a more stable and prosperous Korean Peninsula, as well as the difficult questions facing policymakers in the White House, Pyongyang and beyond."—David Tizzard, NK News"As the former head of Los Alamos National Laboratory, Hecker had unique opportunities to visit North Korean nuclear facilities between 2004 and 2010 and played a role in the negotiations intended to stop North Korea from becoming a credible nuclear power. Here, he describes the failure of that diplomatic effort."—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs"Unlike other physical scientists who have turned their hands to policy, Hecker understands the complexities without trying to reduce them to simple solutions. His frustration at the lack of progress with North Korea is palpable and a refreshing contrast to the tired cynicism of experts in Washington who believe that Pyongyang is a hopeless case yet refuse to adopt different approaches. One can only hope Hecker has another chance to visit North Korea to brighten the prospects for diplomacy."—Sharon Squassoni, Arms Control Today"Hecker dives into the technical detail and, with the mastery of a medieval alchemist, transforms it into the gold of plain English."—Glyn Ford, Asian Affairs"Hinge Points provides a trenchant critique of the failed attempts of the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations to denuclearize North Korea.... Highly recommended."—M. E. Carranza, CHOICE"Hecker is correct to suggest that the Korean question is the most urgent unsolved long-term crisis in global politics. Hinge Points serves as a very useful overview of the problem. Anyone concerned with international politics needs to read this study drawing the general public's attention to the potential tinderbox of war that is East Asia."—James Flowers, H-Sci-Med-TechTable of Contents1. Introduction 2. Nuclear Background 3. The state of play prior to January 2004 trip. 4. Would you like to see our product? The improbable visit to North Korea. 5. Disastrous consequences of Bolton's hammer. 6. 2005: Back to North Korea. Vice Minister Kim Gye Gwan – "No LWR, no deal." Bob Joseph – "No LWR till pigs fly." 7. Kim Jong Il - Buying time. 8. "Tell America, it worked and North Korean people are filled with pride." 9. Back to the negotiating table. 10. 2007 and 2008 visits. Back to Yongbyon to confirm disablement. 11. 2008 – Almost there, but it all falls apart. 12. 2009: You don't know how bad it will get." 13. 2009 and 2010: Clenching the fist instead of reaching for Obama's outstretched hand. 14. 2010 visit – "Tomorrow, you will have a bigger surprise." 15. November 2010 to April 2012 – Leap Day Deal goes up in smoke along with DPRK rocket. 16. Does the U.S. blow the Leap Day Deal up over one stupid rocket launch? 17. From Strategic Patience to Benign Neglect. 18. The "Fire and Fury" of 2017. 19. From the Olympics to Singapore. 20. The train wreck in Hanoi. 21. Summary and closing observations.

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Book SynopsisThe possibility of a nuclear war that could destroy civilization has influenced the course of international affairs since 1945, suspended like a sword of Damocles above the heads of the world's leaders. The fact that we have escaped a third world war involving strategic nuclear weapons—indeed, that no atomic weapon of limited power has yet been used under battlefield conditions—seems nothing short of a miracle. Revisiting debates on the effectiveness and ethics of nuclear deterrence, Jean-Pierre Dupuy is led to reformulate some of the most difficult questions in philosophy. He develops a counterintuitive but powerful theory of apocalyptic prophecy: once a major catastrophe appears to be possible, one must assume that it will in fact occur. Dupuy shows that the contradictions and paradoxes riddling discussions of deterrence arise from the tension between two opposite conceptions of time: one in which the future depends on decisions and strategy, and another in which every occurring event is one that could not have failed to occur. Considering the immense destructive power of nuclear warheads and the almost unimaginable ruin they are bound to cause, Dupuy reaches a provocative conclusion: whether they bring about good or evil does not depend on the present or future intentions of those who are in a position to use them. The mere possession of nuclear weapons is a moral abomination.Trade Review"A stimulating read, essential for understanding the remaining options afforded to our civilization, now that we live with the irreversibility of the nuclear bomb."—Diane Delaurens, Nonfiction"We all live under the shadow of a forthcoming catastrophe: pandemic, ecological disaster, nuclear war. Our reactions to such threats are often irrational, and Dupuy provides a superbly readable rational analysis of all these irrationalities: why the logic of nuclear MAD (mutually assured destruction) is really mad, why nuclear threats are never just rhetoric but can trigger an actual catastrophe, why sometimes to be taken seriously one has to act as if one is mad, why the only rational strategy is to accept that things can at any moment go wrong. Dupuy is our best theorist of catastrophes and his new book is a book for all of us—in a well-organized state, it would be massively printed and freely distributed to all families. So it is vulgar and trivial to say that this is an excellent book—it is rather a book that we all need like ordinary daily bread."—Slavoj Žižek, author of Surplus-Enjoyment"This is a provocative exploration of the paradoxes of nuclear deterrence. If we are to postpone nuclear catastrophe indefinitely, Dupuy argues, we must understand that nuclear war is not merely possible but bound to occur."—David Holloway, author of Stalin and the Bomb"Dupuy provides an extremely important service by bringing much-needed attention to the existential risk that society largely ignored prior to the war in Ukraine and, even now, does not take seriously enough. Highly recommended."—Martin E. Hellman, winner of the Turing Award"Dupuy, one of the most incisive thinkers of our times, allows us to rethink history while it is in the making. This book is mandatory reading for anyone who seeks to understand our present."—Frank Ruda, coauthor of Reading Hegel"Most of us navigate our private joys and woes without thinking about collective nuclear annihilation. This is not because the threat has vanished. It is because it is unthinkable. In this compelling work of rational doomsaying, Dupuy models how to think the unthinkable. The result is a challenging and urgent book."—Alison McQueen, author of Political Realism in Apocalyptic TimesTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. One Minute from Apocalypse and Why (Almost) No One Gives a Damn 2. MAD: The Birth of a Structure 3. The Pure Theory of MAD 4. Metaphysical MAD Appendix

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Book SynopsisThe postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets. Death Dust explores the largely unknown history of the development of radiological weapons (RW)—weapons designed to disperse radioactive material without a nuclear detonation—through a series of comparative case studies across the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Iraq, and Egypt. The authors illuminate the historical drivers of and impediments to radiological weapons innovation. They also examine how new, dire geopolitical events—such as the war in Ukraine—could encourage other states to pursue RW and analyze the impact of the spread of such weapons on nuclear deterrence and the nonproliferation regime. Death Dust presents practical, necessary steps to reduce the likelihood of a resurgence of interest in and pursuit of radiological weapons by state actors.Trade Review"In this meticulously researched history of states pursuing the dirty bomb, the authors show how countries like the US, Russia, and the UK concluded that it is a weapon of mass disruption, not mass destruction, and not worth pursuing. They present excellent suggestions how to keep it that way. A great read."—Siegfried S. Hecker, author of Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program"Sherlock Holmes solved a mystery by focusing on what didn't happen: a dog that didn't bark. The authors of this rigorously researched volume similarly explain why a widely expected event didn't happen—why several countries developed and tested radiological weapons but never deployed or used them, even though they are relatively cheap, easy to make, and assumed to have devastating effects. Their meticulous and highly readable analysis not only sheds light on a long-dormant mystery of the nuclear age, it also provides valuable insights into whether and under what circumstances states may again pursue radiological weapons and offers practical recommendations for mitigating the dangers of their possible future development. With evidence that interest in radiation dispersal as a weapon of war may be returning—for example, Russia's Poseidon "super torpedo"—Death Dust is especially timely and should be read by nuclear policymakers as well as members of the general public concerned about the nuclear threat."—Robert Einhorn, Brookings Institution, former Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation"This exceptional account of the development of radiological weapons—'death dust'—is powerful and comprehensive. The authors reveal the history of such weapons programs around the world. Their analysis of Russian threats to use radiological weapons in Ukraine is a reminder that this danger lives on."—Rose Gottemoeller, Stanford University, former Under Secretary for Arms Control and International SecurityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The United States 2. The Soviet Union 3. The United Kingdom 4. Egypt 5. Iraq Conclusion: Patterns across Cases and Prospects for the Future

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Book SynopsisThe postwar period saw increased interest in the idea of relatively easy-to-manufacture but devastatingly lethal radiological munitions whose use would not discriminate between civilian and military targets. Death Dust explores the largely unknown history of the development of radiological weapons (RW)—weapons designed to disperse radioactive material without a nuclear detonation—through a series of comparative case studies across the United States, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, Iraq, and Egypt. The authors illuminate the historical drivers of and impediments to radiological weapons innovation. They also examine how new, dire geopolitical events—such as the war in Ukraine—could encourage other states to pursue RW and analyze the impact of the spread of such weapons on nuclear deterrence and the nonproliferation regime. Death Dust presents practical, necessary steps to reduce the likelihood of a resurgence of interest in and pursuit of radiological weapons by state actors.Trade Review"In this meticulously researched history of states pursuing the dirty bomb, the authors show how countries like the US, Russia, and the UK concluded that it is a weapon of mass disruption, not mass destruction, and not worth pursuing. They present excellent suggestions how to keep it that way. A great read."—Siegfried S. Hecker, author of Hinge Points: An Inside Look at North Korea's Nuclear Program"Sherlock Holmes solved a mystery by focusing on what didn't happen: a dog that didn't bark. The authors of this rigorously researched volume similarly explain why a widely expected event didn't happen—why several countries developed and tested radiological weapons but never deployed or used them, even though they are relatively cheap, easy to make, and assumed to have devastating effects. Their meticulous and highly readable analysis not only sheds light on a long-dormant mystery of the nuclear age, it also provides valuable insights into whether and under what circumstances states may again pursue radiological weapons and offers practical recommendations for mitigating the dangers of their possible future development. With evidence that interest in radiation dispersal as a weapon of war may be returning—for example, Russia's Poseidon "super torpedo"—Death Dust is especially timely and should be read by nuclear policymakers as well as members of the general public concerned about the nuclear threat."—Robert Einhorn, Brookings Institution, former Assistant Secretary of State for Nonproliferation"This exceptional account of the development of radiological weapons—'death dust'—is powerful and comprehensive. The authors reveal the history of such weapons programs around the world. Their analysis of Russian threats to use radiological weapons in Ukraine is a reminder that this danger lives on."—Rose Gottemoeller, Stanford University, former Under Secretary for Arms Control and International SecurityTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. The United States 2. The Soviet Union 3. The United Kingdom 4. Egypt 5. Iraq Conclusion: Patterns across Cases and Prospects for the Future

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Book SynopsisSanctions have enormous consequences. Especially when imposed by a country with the economic influence of the United States, sanctions induce clear shockwaves in both the economy and political culture of the targeted state, and in the everyday lives of citizens. But do economic sanctions induce the behavioral changes intended? Do sanctions work in the way they should? To answer these questions, the authors of How Sanctions Work highlight Iran, the most sanctioned country in the world. Comprehensive sanctions are meant to induce uprisings or pressures to change the behavior of the ruling establishment, or to weaken its hold on power. But, after four decades, the case of Iran shows the opposite to be true: sanctions strengthened the Iranian state, impoverished its population, increased state repression, and escalated Iran's military posture toward the U.S. and its allies in the region. Instead of offering an 'alternative to war,' sanctions have become a cause of war. Consequently, How Sanctions Work reveals how necessary it is to understand how sanctions really work.Trade Review"There is no shortage of publications on the Iran sanctions, but it is rare to see such detailed, serious work on this topic by highly knowledgeable scholars. How Sanctions Work introduces a wealth of information and perspectives not generally found in the existing Western academic literature."—Joy Gordon, author of Invisible War: The United States and the Iraq Sanctions"A vital study of the most tragic case in the recent history of economic sanctions. Bajoghli, Nasr, Salehi-Isfahani, and Vaez powerfully demonstrate how large the gap between the severe material effects and the limited political efficacy of sanctions against Iran has grown."—Nicholas Mulder, author of The Economic Weapon: The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War"An indispensable book on sanctions' impacts in Iran, How Sanctions Work, opens a window into the fraught, little-understood, but ubiquitous and hugely consequential practice that seems to have supplanted diplomacy in current foreign policy and international relations. This volume shifts our understandings of what sanctions do—in Iran and beyond."—Arzoo Osanloo, author of Forgiveness Work: Mercy, Law, and Victims' Rights in Iran"For the analysts in Washington and Tehran newly evaluating sanctions and their effects, How Sanctions Work is a valuable resource. By centering the targeted country in the discussion of sanctions efficacy, Bajoghli, Nasr, Salehi-Isfahani, and Vaez demonstrate what a case study on sanctions should look like."—Esfandyar Batmanghelidj, Responsible StatecraftTable of ContentsIntroduction: The Invisible War 1. When Society Is Sanctioned 2. When Politics Is Sanctioned 3. When Iran Was Sanctioned 4. When an Economy Is Sanctioned 5. What Sanctions Cost the United States 6. What Sanctions Cost Iran—and the World Conclusion: Permanent Siege

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Book SynopsisThe definitive guide to the history of nuclear arms control by a wise eavesdropper and masterful storyteller, Michael Krepon. The greatest unacknowledged diplomatic achievement of the Cold War was the absence of mushroom clouds. Deterrence alone was too dangerous to succeed; it needed arms control to prevent nuclear warfare. So, U.S. and Soviet leaders ventured into the unknown to devise guardrails for nuclear arms control and to treat the Bomb differently than other weapons. Against the odds, they succeeded. Nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare for three quarters of a century. This book is the first in-depth history of how the nuclear peace was won by complementing deterrence with reassurance, and then jeopardized by discarding arms control after the Cold War ended. Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace tells a remarkable story of high-wire acts of diplomacy, close calls, dogged persistence, and extraordinary success. Michael Krepon brings to life the pitched battles between arms controllers and advocates of nuclear deterrence, the ironic twists and unexpected outcomes from Truman to Trump. What began with a ban on atmospheric testing and a nonproliferation treaty reached its apogee with treaties that mandated deep cuts and corralled "loose nukes" after the Soviet Union imploded. After the Cold War ended, much of this diplomatic accomplishment was cast aside in favor of freedom of action. The nuclear peace is now imperiled by no less than four nuclear-armed rivalries. Arms control needs to be revived and reimagined for Russia and China to prevent nuclear warfare. New guardrails have to be erected. Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace is an engaging account of how the practice of arms control was built from scratch, how it was torn down, and how it can be rebuilt.Trade Review"Michael Krepon, a child of the Cold War, dedicated his career to the effort to reduce the risk of a nuclear Armageddon. Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace is the culmination of his career. This chronicle of the leaders in Washington and Moscow who negotiated agreements to avert nuclear danger is powerful and wise."—Strobe Talbott, Former Deputy Secretary of State"Until now, there has been no comprehensive history of nuclear arms control; Michael Krepon's masterful Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace fills that ICBM-size hole in the field. A must-read to understand our past efforts to tame the nuclear arms race, so that we can pursue them successfully again."—Vipin Narang, Massachusetts Institute of Technology"Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace makes a uniquely important contribution to arms control literature. It is exceptionally well-written and clear, providing valuable insights into how we have managed to avoid a nuclear war these past 75 years, and how to continue that avoidance despite the collapse of treaties."—William J. Perry, Former Secretary of Defense"Krepon's refreshingly realist message is that the world is stuck in the nuclear age: the idea of abolishing nuclear weapons and the notion of finding war-winning strategies for their use are both forms of escapism."—Lawrence D. Freedman, Foreign Affairs"Michael Krepon's book Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace: The Rise, Demise, and Revival of Arms Control comes at the perfect time... The book makes three important contributions. First, it should become the definitive text on the topic of arms control and the volume of choice for university courses on arms control, deterrence, and nuclear policy more broadly... Second, in telling such a detailed history, Krepon, albeit indirectly, provides a playbook for understanding when, why, and how arms control has succeeded in the past. This is a timely contribution. Finally, Krepon's vision for the future of arms control is an ambitious one that may face practical challenges but should inspire scholars to engage with the first principles of arms control."—Heather Williams, Arms Control Today"Krepon expertly stitches together a comprehensive historical account of arms control. As the title suggests, Krepon's scholarly endeavour traces the ebbs and flows of the US arms control journey. Using his knack for storytelling, the author brings to the fore how, in the United States, individual grit and political will trumped systemic reticence to embrace arms control."—Rabia Akhtar, International Affairs"Offer[ing] thoughtful arguments about the format and purpose of arms control in the past, present and future...Krepon's magisterial account emphasises the hard work and political vision that even a modest approach to arms control entails. Future generations of arms-controllers will find rich insights in this important book." –Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Survival"Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peaceis a magisterial assessment of the entire eight decades of diplomatic history of nuclear arms control and its symbiotic relationship with deterrence. Michael Krepon covers both East-West negotiations and non-proliferation efforts world-wide, focusing on the people who made nuclear arms control and those who opposed them – their motives, tactics, the interactions among them, their successes and failures, as well as the political environments in which they operated. The book is written in an engaging prose making the subject accessible not just to experts, but also to general audiences and students. It is likely to remain the standard reference for many years"—American Academy of Diplomacy"Arms control is what states make of it. The criteria for its success or failure are often underspecified, leaving it open to an unnecessarily broad range of criticism. Krepon's magisterial account emphasises the hard work and political vision that even a modest approach to arms control entails. Future generations of arms-controllers will find rich insights in this important book."—Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer, The Survival Editor's Blog"Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace is... a passing of the baton from one of the elder statesmen of American arms control – a baton wrapped in marching orders for a new generation of analysts and advocates."—Paul Esau, Canadian Military HistoryTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. A Prehistory of Nuclear Arms Control 2. Eisenhower's Halting Steps 3. Kennedy, Johnson, and Early Successes 4. Johnson and the Quest for Strategic Arms Control 5. Nixon, Kissinger, and the SALT I Accords 6. Nixon Falls and SALT II Stalls 7. Ford, Kissinger, and the Death of Détente 8. Carter, SALT II, and the Reckoning 9. Reagan's Roller Coaster Ride 10. Breakthrough 11. George H.W. Bush at Peak Performance 12. Consolidating Gains 13. Stalling Out 14. Shedding Treaties 15. Reality Overtakes Hope 16. Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin 17. Reaffirming Norms, Reducing Numbers

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Book SynopsisRelations between the United States and Russia have recently escalated from strained to outright aggressive. From imperial expansion in Ukraine to intervention in Syria to Russian hacking during the US election in 2016, it is clear that the United States must be prepared to defend itself and its NATO allies against Russian aggression. Resurgent Russia, researched and written by six residents and internationally experienced officers at the US Army War College, analyzes the current threat of Russian acts of war—both conventional military attacks and unconventional cyber warfare or political attacks—against the United Stated and NATO. The officers detail how the America can use its international military resources and political influence to both prepare for and deter aggression ordered by Vladimir Putin, making it clear that such an attack would be unsuccessful and therefore keeping the peace. This study provides a clear assessment of how the United States and its allies must utilize their political and military power to deter Russian aggression and maintain the hierarchy of power in today’s world.

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Book SynopsisA Nonpartisan guide that arms both sides of the gun control debate. The slogan of the Gun Facts Project is "We are neither pro-gun nor anti-gun. We are pro-math and anti-BS." From project creator Guy Smith comes Guns and Control: A Nonpartisan Guide to Mass Public Shootings, Gun Accidents, Crime, Public Carry, Suicides, Defensive Use, and More. No matter what side of the aisle one is on, people are baffled by gun control. This book is designed to be a guide to thoughtful discussion; it arms readers with facts and the logic behind conflicting arguments and leaves emotional rhetoric to the pundits and focuses on the thorny issues of the debate.

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Book SynopsisCosmopolitan Dystopia shows that rather than populists or authoritarian great powers it is cosmopolitan liberals who have done the most to subvert the liberal international order. Cosmopolitan Dystopia explains how liberal cosmopolitanism has led us to treat new humanitarian crises as unprecedented demands for military action, thereby trapping us in a loop of endless war. Attempts to normalize humanitarian emergency through the doctrine of the ‘responsibility to protect’ has made for a paternalist understanding of state power that undercuts the representative functions of state sovereignty. The legacy of liberal intervention is a cosmopolitan dystopia of permanent war, insurrection by cosmopolitan jihadis and a new authoritarian vision of sovereignty in which states are responsible for their peoples rather than responsible to them. This book will be of vital interest to scholars and students of international relations, IR theory and human rights.Trade Review'Written by one of the top analysts in the peacebuilding field, this highly readable book provides a wealth of fresh and powerful insights. Brimming with new and important framings, from the cosmopolitan dystopia of the title to the treatments of humanitarian anti-diplomacy and new forms of hierarchical sovereignty, this book is a must read for students and practitioners alike.’David Chandler, Professor of International Relations, University of Westminster‘This book presents a fundamental challenge to all those who have understood globalisation, humanitarian interventions, and the almost universal acceptance of the "Responsibility to Protect" (R2P) as progressive steps in the development of international relations. Philip Cunliffe has produced a powerful set of arguments to uncover the logic of contemporary liberal interventions. Far from being progressive, he argues, these interventions have ushered in a cosmopolitan dystopia, destroyed conventional state sovereignty, eroded traditional modes of politics, and undermined long-standing practices of diplomacy which sought to resolve competing state interests.’Mervyn Frost, Professor of International Relations, King’s College London'This elegantly written and wide-ranging critique suggests that the current strains in the liberal international order stem not from external forces, or so-called illiberal challengers, but rather from Western states' own attempts to undermine the foundational principle of non-intervention. Through his twin concepts of "inverted revisionism" and "the politics of exception", Cunliffe offers a rich account of how liberal ideals came to fuel episodes of Western hubris, which have in turn contributed to on-going conflict and instability. Provocative and essential reading.'Jennifer M. Welsh, Canada 150 Chair in Global Governance and Security, McGill University'Trading in big ideas and compellingly argued, Cosmopolitan Dystopia presents an incisive analysis of contemporary international relations and the fault lines that structure it. Viewed in its totality, what Cunliffe’s book offers us, in his own words, is a razor-sharp set of reflections on the stories we tell ourselves about the international order.'Ethics & International Affairs. -- .Table of ContentsIntroduction: the rise of cosmopolitan dystopia1 Inverted revisionism and the subversion of the liberal international order2 Through the looking-glass: the new critics of intervention3 What should we do? The politics of humanitarian exceptionalism4 Failed states, failed empires and the new paternalismConclusion: waiting for the AmericansNotesBibliographyIndex

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Book SynopsisWritten in a lively and readable style by the world’s leading authority on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and US-European relations, Defense of the West is the history of a transatlantic security relationship that has endured for over seventy years.This latest edition of a classic work looks at how developments inside NATO and European Union member states affect their ability to defend against external threats while preserving Western values, in the era of Trump and Brexit. Sloan frankly addresses the failures and shortcomings of Western institutions and member states. But the book emphasizes the continuing importance of value-based transatlantic security cooperation as a vital element of the defense and foreign policies of NATO and EU member states.At a time of heightened tension and political turmoil, at home and abroad, Stan Sloan’s lucid and far-sighted analysis is more necessary than ever.Trade Review'America's NATO allies are vital for her twenty first-century political and military goals. Sloan's comprehensive study provides rich history, international context, and astute perspectives with which to consider what NATO is today and how it may develop next - all necessary and timely for the US electorate and US President in NATO's sixth decade and beyond. This book will inform and stimulate your understanding of both a successful and challenged NATO alliance.' Lawrence Chalmer, Former Director of the NATO Orientation Course and Professor Emeritus, National Defense University, Washington, D.C. 'For over thirty-five years Stan Sloan has used Harlan Cleveland's concept of the transatlantic bargain with great success in exploring NATO's history. With its emphasis on the problems of the twenty-first century this volume continues his quest. It marks him as the most important American authority in the field of NATO historiography. His book belongs on the shelf of every person interested in the future of the transatlantic relationship.' Lawrence S. Kaplan, Director Emeritus, Lyman L. Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, Kent State University 'Few people understand NATO better than Stan Sloan. Defense of the West provides a uniquely authoritative account of the alliance's history and the many challenges it must address if it is going to continue to contribute to our collective security.' Sir Lawrence Freedman, Emeritus Professor of War Studies, King's College London 'The book appears to be aimed at a student audience, as demonstrated by the "questions for discussion" at the end of each chapter, but its comprehensiveness makes it almost a NATO Handbook.' Nato Review 'Stanley Sloan's book makes an important contribution to our understanding of NATO, and in doing so, can help us chart our way to its future development more coherently.' Wing Commander Keith Dear, RAF Centre for Air Power Studies 2017 'Anyone who takes an interest in the future of the Alliance, Europe, and global security will find this book simultaneously thought-provoking and indispensable.' Sten Rynning, Joint Force Quarterly 'One of the most delightful aspects of Defense of the West is its user-friendliness. Sloan provides important appendices, including the text of the North Atlantic Treaty (1949), on which NATO is founded, and the text of NATO's most recent Strategic Concept, the product of the 2010 Lisbon Summit. Sloan also provides discussion questions at the end of each chapter, making the text ideal for international relations or history seminars at the university level, reading groups, or personal study.' Justin Dell, Nato Association of Canada'This welcome reissue brings the history of the Atlantic Alliance up to date with the rise of China, Brexit and the election of President Trump. Any sceptic tempted to write off NATO should read this book to understand the enduring shared interests and values that stand behind the transatlantic bargain.'Professor Sir David Omand GCB, Visiting Professor, King's College, London'An impressive volume: it offers a well-informed, jargon-free history of NATO, as well as some almost philosophical reflections of a seasoned observer of the transatlantic community.' NATO Review -- .Table of ContentsForeword by Lawrence FreedmanPart I: Cold War alliance1 The transatlantic bargain and defense of the West2 Genesis of the bargain3 The transatlantic bargain revised4 The bargain through the Cold War, 1954–19895 The United States and Europe at the end of the Cold War: some fundamental factorsPart II: Post-Cold War alliance6 The 1990s: transitions and challenges7 The 2000s: turbulent transatlantic ties8 The 2010s: new tasks, new traumasPart III: Defense of the West 9 External threats and internal challenges10 Can the West survive? Appendix 1: The North Atlantic Treaty: Washington D.C. – April 4, 1949Appendix 2: Active Engagement, Modern Defence, NATO Strategic Concept, November 20, 2010Select bibliographyAbout the authorIndex

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Book SynopsisIn Dark Beyond Darkness, James Blight and janet Lang, among the world’s foremost authorities on the Cuban missile crisis, synthesize the findings from their thirty-year project on the most dangerous moment in recorded history. Authoritative, accessible, and written with their usual flair and wit, DBD is the first book to take readers deeply inside the experience and calculations of Fidel Castro, who was willing to martyr Cuba if his new Russian ally would nuke the U.S. and destroy it. Blight and Lang have established that in October 1962, the world was on the brink of Armageddon, and that we escaped by luck. Their history is scary but unimpeachably accurate: we just barely escaped the cold and the dark in October 1962. Their history also comes with a warning: we are currently at risk not only of Armageddon-fast, in a war between superpowers, but Armageddon-in-Slow-Motion (the result a climate catastrophe following a regional nuclear war), and from Armageddon, Oops! (a conflict sparked by an accident, which is misinterpreted, and ends in nuclear war). Drawing on the insights of poets, musicians and novelists, as well as climate scientists and agronomists, they show the terrible risk we run by refusing to abolish nuclear weapons.Trade ReviewBlight and Lang, married scholars at the University of Waterloo, use the Cuban missile crisis as a case study in developing a long argument against nuclear weapons. The authors, decades-long advocates of nuclear disarmament, advance their premise here by presenting the U.S.-Soviet crisis over missiles in Cuba from the perspective of the Cuban government. They argue that the Cuban leadership’s role in the crisis has been underappreciated and that Cuban leadership was very willing to sacrifice Cuba to provoke a nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. It is an interesting thesis.... [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 *“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. Linenthal, Indiana University, former editor-in-chief, The Journal of American History“Jim Blight and janet Lang place Cuba at the center of the Cuban missile crisis in this chilling wake-up call about our complacency with nuclear weapons.” -- Bruce Riedel, Director of the Brookings Intelligence Project“Jim Blight and janet Lang have crafted another indispensable book proving that the lessons of the Cuban missile crisis may hold the key to our survival - if only we learn them. Using history, psychology, and their gifted imaginations, they force us to recognize how precarious is a world with nuclear weapons, and how stunningly lucky we have been to avoid catastrophe. 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“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“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 Temas magazine, published in Havana, CubaTable of ContentsAuthors’ Note Prologue: Armageddon in Retrospect: On the Road with Papa & The Boy Part One: Dark Chapter 1: Shit (Almost) Happened in October 1962: The Struggle to Avoid Armageddon Involves the Struggle of Memory Against Forgetting. Chapter 2: The Bullshit: Bad Guys Threaten; Good Guys Stand Firm; Good Guys Win; Bad Guys Lose; the Little Guy Doesn’t Matter; JFK’s Moxie Prevails. Chapter 3: The Truth: Big Guys Ignore Little Guy; Feeling Doomed, Little Guy Throws Caution to the Wind, Starts Shooting, and Asks Big Friend to Nuke the U.S.; Armageddon Nearly Occurs. Part Two: Darker Chapter 4: Habitable History: How Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Became the Template for a “WABAC” Machine for the Cuban Missile Crisis. Chapter 5: Be Robert McNamara: Bringing the Abolition Message Home, With (and Without) “Maximum Bob” Chapter 6: Be Fidel Castro: A Leader at the Hinge of the World. Part Three: Darkest Chapter 7: Armageddon in Slow Motion: More Bullshit and Truth about Avoiding Armageddon in the 21st Century. Chapter 8: Armageddon Oops! Nuclear War via Mechanical and/or Human Screw-up. Chapter 9: On The Road Again Via Climate Catastrophe: From a 19th Century Volcanic Eruption to a 21st Century Nuclear Winter. Part Four: The Darkness Defined and Defied (via the Lessons of the Cuban Missile Crisis) Chapter 10: Be Anybody WABAC: Empathy, Not Sympathy is the Key. Chapter 11: Darkness Visible: Findings, Takeaways and Imperatives of the Cuban Missile Crisis Chapter 12: The Black Saturday Manifesto: Abolishing Nuclear Weapons One Anniversary Per Year, For As Long As It Takes. Epilogue: Show Us Your Darkness: Warning Given! Warning Received? Acknowledgments Permissions & Credits Notes Index About the Authors

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Book SynopsisThis book provides information on the background and current status of the regimes intended to limit the spread of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and missiles. Weapons of mass destruction (WMD), especially in the hands of radical states and terrorists, represent a major threat to US national security interests. Multilateral regimes were established to restrict world trade in these goods and technologies and to monitor certain civil applications. The nuclear non-proliferation regime encompasses several treaties, extensive multilateral and bilateral diplomatic agreements, multilateral organisations and domestic agencies, and the domestic laws of participating countries. The nuclear regime represents a near-universal international consensus opposing any further spread of nuclear weapons. Since the beginning of the nuclear age, US leadership has played a decisive role in the development of the regime. The regime is being challenged from several directions, as demonstrated by the Indian and Pakistani nuclear detonations in 1998. Many observers believe the success of the nuclear non-proliferation regime should be a top priority and that its outcome will strongly influence the effectiveness of other regimes dedicated to controlling chemical and biological weapons and missiles.

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Book SynopsisThis book provides the reader with unclassified quantitative data on conventional arms transfers to developing nations by the United States and foreign countries. Some general data are provided on world-wide conventional arms transfers, but the principal focus is the level of arms transfers by major weapons suppliers to nations in the developing world. Developing nations continue to be the primary purchasers in the sale of arms. During the years 1994-2001, the value of arms transfer agreements with developing nations compromised 68.3% of all such agreements world-wide. More recently, arms transfer agreements with developing nations constituted 65.8% of all such agreements globally from 1998-2001, and 60.5% of these agreements in 2001.

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Book SynopsisThe use of economic sanctions to stem weapons proliferation acquired a new dimension in the 1990''s. While earlier legislation required the cut-off of foreign aid to countries engaged in specified nuclear proliferation activities and mentioned other sanctions as a possible mechanism for bringing countries into compliance with goals of treaties or international agreements, it was not until 1990 that Congress enacted explicit guidelines for trade sanctions related to missile proliferation. In that year a requirement for the President to impose sanctions against US persons or foreign persons engaging in trade of items or technology listed in the Missile Technology Control Regime Annex (MTCR Annex) was added to the Arms Export Control Act and to the Export Administration Act of 1979. Subsequently, Congress legislated economic sanctions against countries that contribute to the proliferation of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons in a broad array of laws. This book offers a listing and brief description of legal provisions that require or authorise the imposition of some form of economic sanction against countries, companies, or persons who violate U.S. non-proliferation norms. For each provision, information is included on what triggers the imposition of sanctions, their duration, what authority the President has to delay or abstain from imposing sanctions, and what authority the President has to waive the imposition of sanctions.

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Book SynopsisThe United Nations is failing abysmally, and dangerously, in its mission. Founded in 1945 as a vehicle to avert war and promote human dignity and freedom, the U.N. has instead become a self-serving and ever-expanding haven of privilege for the world's worst regimes, rife with bigotry, fraud, abuse, and corruption, both financial and moral. Yet the American foreign policy community treats it as taboo to speak seriously about sidelining, supplanting, or leaving the U.N. The usual argument is that the U.N. may be imperfect, but it's all we've got.In this Broadside, Claudia Rosett explains why the U.N.'s basic design means it cannot really be reformed and why it is becoming ever more urgent to seek alternatives. Rosett argues that it's time to break the taboo, and to bring fully into America's foreign policy debates the question of how to dispense with the U.N. altogether.

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Book SynopsisCongress passed the Nunn-Lugar amendment, authorizing U.S. threat reduction assistance to the former Soviet Union, in November 1991, after a failed coup in Moscow and the disintegration of the Soviet Union raised concerns about the safety and security of Soviet nuclear weapons. The annual program has grown from $400 million in the DOD budget around $1.1 billion across three agencies -- DOD, DOE and the State Department. It has also evolved from an emergency response to impending chaos in the Soviet Union, to a more comprehensive threat reduction and nonproliferation effort, to a broader program seeking to keep nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons from leaking out of the former Soviet Union and into the hands of rogue nations or terrorist groups. The Department of Defense manages the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program, which provides Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan with assistance in transporting, storing, and dismantling nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons. U.S. assistance has helped these nations eliminate the delivery systems for nuclear weapons under the START I Treaty, secure weapons storage areas, construct a storage facility for nuclear materials removed from weapons, construct a destruction facility for chemical weapons, and secure biological weapons materials. The State Department manages the International Science and Technology Centers in Moscow and Kiev. These centers provide research grants to scientists and engineers so that they will not sell their knowledge to other nations or terrorist groups. The State Department has also provided assistance with export and border control programs in the former Soviet states. The Department of Energy manages programs that seek to improve the security of nuclear materials at civilian, naval, and nuclear weapons complex facilities. It also funds programs that help nuclear scientists and engineers find employment in commercial enterprises. DOE is also helping Russia dispose of plutonium removed from nuclear weapons and shut-down its remaining plutonium-producing reactors by replacing them with fossil-fuel plants. Analysts have debated numerous issues related to U.S. nonproliferation and threat reduction assistance. These include questions about the coordination of and priority given to these programs in the U.S. government, questions about Russia''s willingness to provide the United States with access to its weapons facilities, questions about the President''s ability to waive certification requirements so that the programs can go forward, and questions about the need to expand the efforts into a global program that receives funding from numerous nations and possibly extends assistance to others outside the former Soviet Union.

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Book SynopsisThe early 1980s were a tense time. The nuclear arms race was escalating, Reagan administration officials bragged about winning a nuclear war, and superpower diplomatic relations were at a new low. Nuclear war was a real possibility and antinuclear activism surged. By 1982 the Nuclear Freeze campaign had become the largest peace movement in American history. In support, celebrities, authors, publishers, and filmmakers saturated popular culture with critiques of Reagan’s arms buildup, which threatened to turn public opinion against the president. Alarmed, the Reagan administration worked to co- opt the rhetoric of the nuclear freeze and contain antinuclear activism. Recently declassified White House memoranda reveal a concerted campaign to defeat activists’ efforts. In this book, William M. Knoblauch examines these new sources, as well as the influence of notable personalities like Carl Sagan and popular culture such as the film The Day After, to demonstrate how cultural activism ultimately influenced the administration’s shift in rhetoric and, in time, its stance on the arms race.Trade Review“This is a well- written book and the author has mined some very good primary sources. it’s way past time for someone to engage the significance of Reagan- era antinuclear cultural activism.” — Edward Linenthal, author of Symbolic Defense: The Cultural Significance of the Strategic Defense Initiative and The Unfinished Bombing: Oklahoma City in American Memory

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Book Synopsis"A much needed wake-up call that China assumes that it is open season on Americans."—Victor Davis Hanson"There is a Red Storm rising in the East—and America is already under assault from the Chinese Communist Party."—Lou Dobbs“THE EAST IS RISING AND THE WEST IS DECLINING” —Xi Jinping, 2020Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, chairman of the Central Military Commission and the president of the People''s Republic of China,  wants to shape the world in China’s image,  and in his conception of the world there is no place for the United States or even the current international order. Noted China analyst Gordon G. Chang warns that Xi Jinping believes he must destroy America to accomplish his objectives. And that Xi already h

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Book SynopsisA unique overview of the United States’ current nuclear command, control, and communications system and its modernization for the digital age Concerns about the security of nuclear command, control, and communications (NC3) systems are not new, but they are becoming more urgent. While modernization is crucial to the future success of NC3 systems, the transition from analog to digital technologies has the potential to introduce vulnerabilities and unintended consequences. Nuclear infrastructure and command could be penetrated, corrupted, destroyed, or spoofed, leading to a loss of positive control (the ability to fire weapons) or negative control (the ability to prevent unauthorized or accidental use). Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications explores the current NC3 system and its vital role in ensuring effective deterrence, contemporary challenges posed by cyber threats, new weapons technologies, and the consensus across the nuclear enterprise of the need to modernize the United States’ Cold War–era system of systems. This volume, edited by James J. Wirtz and Jeffrey A. Larsen, offers the first overview of US NC3 since the 1980s. Part 1 provides an overview of the history, strategy, and technology associated with NC3 and how it enables deterrence strategy as the basis of national defense. Parts 2 and 3 identify how the US military’s NC3 works, the challenges of introducing digital technologies and the potential security threats, and how the system could fail if these considerations are not taken into account. Part 4 explains the progress NC3 has made thus far, and how we might move forward. During this critical juncture, policymakers, practitioners, and scholars will find this an invaluable resource to understanding our current NC3 system, its relationship to effective deterrence, what must be done to modernize NC3, and how to ensure this transition is undertaken safely and successfully.Trade ReviewNuclear Command, Control, and Communications: A Primer on US Systems and Future Challenges is the first comprehensive work to address the complex network that serves as the nervous system of America’s nuclear deterrent. * H-Net *Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications provides a great overview of the history, current status, and future challenges of the United States' NC3 architecture. * H-War *Table of ContentsForeword by Rebecca K. C. Hersman Acknowledgments Introduction: Assuring Control of the Nuclear Force James J. Wirtz Part I 1. Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications and the Strategy of Deterrence James J. Wirtz 2. NC3 during the Bomber Age: 1945–57 James Clay Moltz 3. NC3 during the Missile Age: 1957–91 James Clay Moltz Part II 4. US Nuclear Command, Control, and Communications: The NC3 Weapons Jeffrey A. Larsen 5. Space Architecture for NC3: Systems and Technologies Mathew R. Crook Part III 6. Cyber Operations and Nuclear Escalation: The Diversity of Danger Jon R. Lindsay 7. Technology Threats to NC3: Past Lessons and Current Challenge Wade L. Huntley 8. Technology Threats to NC3: A Future Scenario Wade L. Huntley Part IV 9. NC3 Modernization: Progress and Remaining Changes Michael S. Malley Conclusion: NC3 at a Critical Juncture Jeffrey A. Larsen List of Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume presents a range of views on the current state of global nuclear disarmament from eminent scholars from India, Israel and France. Chapters present and analyse the relationships between India, Pakistan and the USA, Russia and the USA, the position of the EU and of Israel. The perspectives presented range from optimism to pessimism on global nuclear disarmament and consequences for human security.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Foreword. Preface. Introduction. India and nuclear disarmament: An analysis. Contours of disarmament with special relevance to india. Linkage between disarmament and human and global security. India’s double jeopardy – Nuclear threats and violent asymmetric conflict: Issues and dilemmas in a turbulent region. Post India – US nuclear deal: Need for restructuring the nonproliferation regime. Indian nuclear doctrine: Arming to disarm. Nuclear disarmament – Russia’s perspectives and initiatives. Russia’s policy toward nuclear disarmament: A theoretical framework. Development and disarmament: The case of Europe and Russia. CTBT or complete abolition of nuclear weapons (CANWE): Which is the need of the time?. Global nuclear disarmament: A myth or a super myth. Israel’s nuclear posture and its position on arms control and disarmament. The position of france and the european union on nuclear disarmament. The New START treaty: Perspectives and prospects. Mass media and global security: The path towards nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament. Nuclear disarmament: Global compulsions and indian efforts. Nuclear Disarmament: Regional Perspectives on Progress. Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development. Nuclear Disarmament: Regional Perspectives on Progress. Copyright page.

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Book SynopsisIn its last decades, the apartheid regime was confronted with an existential threat. While internal resistance to the last whites-only government grew, mandatory international sanctions prohibited sales of strategic goods and arms to South Africa. To counter this, a global covert network of nearly fifty countries was built. In complete secrecy, allies in corporations, banks, governments and intelligence agencies across the world helped illegally supply guns and move cash in one of history’s biggest money laundering schemes. Whistleblowers were assassinated and ordinary people suffered. Weaving together archival material, interviews and newly declassified documents, Apartheid Guns and Money exposes some of the darkest secrets of apartheid’s economic crimes, their murderous consequences, and those who profited: heads of state, arms dealers, aristocrats, bankers, spies, journalists and secret lobbyists. These revelations, and the difficult questions they pose, will force the new South Africa—and all who were complicit—to confront the past and be held to account.Trade Review'Van Vuuren's monumental work is a gripping story of conspiracy, assassination, bribery and two-faced global dishonesty . . . [he] methodically and relentlessly exposes what he calls 'the arms money machine.'‘It’s not very often that a book really reshapes our perception of an issue, but Hennie van Vuuren’s "Apartheid Guns and Money" is one . . . the result of a decade of meticulous, painstaking work . . . [it] is a compelling and convincing narrative.’‘'Apartheid Guns and Money' is a must read for any researcher aiming to learn more about the global politico-economic arrangements which sustained apartheid in South Africa for decades.’ -- African Studies Quarterly‘[Apartheid Guns and Money is an] extraordinary compilation and analysis of the deep layers of state crime.’ -- State Crime JournalProbably the single most important book that has been written about South Africa for the last twenty years. -- Professor Achille Mbembe'This book was long overdue. Hennie van Vuuren follows the money and the weapons and thereby shines light on the role of Western enablers in keeping the South African Apartheid-regime in power. Corrupt Western banks, arms companies and governments helped to bust sanctions, to buy arms and oil and thereby became the driver for the conflict. Van Vuuren makes sure that the shame of the past will haunt them.' -- Frederik Obermaier, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of 'The Panama Papers: Breaking the Story of How the Rich and Powerful Hide Their Money''Van Vuuren shows that the struggle against corruption is indeed a human rights struggle and that, as we know from South Africa’s own history, it can be won. But it must be fought for.' * Jacob Dlamini, author of Askari *'A labour of political passion, this admirably well researched book is a must-read. Its most important achievement is to show that illicit trade does not occur in some parallel realm detached from corporate boardrooms and governments; it is stitched into the fabric of everyday statecraft and the exercise of power.' -- Jonny Steinberg, Professor of African Studies, Oxford University'This important book seeks to uncover one of the key secrets of the last decades of the apartheid era. [It’s] a timely reminder that the founding values of our new Constitution are key to building a democracy.' -- Justice Kate O’Regan, former judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa'This is a crucial book at a vital time in our history. It is a must read!' -- Andrew Feinstein, former ANC MP, and author of 'The Shadow World'

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Book SynopsisExcessive 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 peace, eliminate poverty, decrease inequality, and achieve social justice, we should devote all our energies to reducing military spending and using the released resources for economic development. For that, we need a concerted effort to encourage disarmament. This new volume provides reflections and insights from leading public figures and activists who oppose military expenditure in any form. Many of the contributions to this volume were presented as speeches at the 'Disarm! For a Climate of Peace' meeting held in Berlin in 2016, organized by the International Peace Bureau. The volume also includes additional research-oriented chapters to complement the transcripts from the International Peace Bureau meeting.Trade ReviewDuring September-October 2016, the International Peace Bureau, with other partners, held an international congress in Berlin, and this volume contains 18 main plenary papers from it. They cover disarmament for development, sustainable peace, peace and development, a nuclear weapon free world, military spending and peace economics, and the challenge of peace today. Among their topics are creating an active disgust for war, the political conditions for a lasting global peace, recent trends in global military spending: the shallowest down cycle since World War II, trade unions and a sustainable policy of peace, and learning to disarm: educating to realize the International Peace Bureau action agenda. -- Annotation ©2019 * (protoview.com) *Table of ContentsForeword; Manas ChatterjiAcknowledgements Part 1. Introduction Chapter 1. Introductory Remarks; Reiner Braun, Ingeborg Breines, and Colin Archer Chapter 2. Creating an Active Disgust for War; Ingeborg Breines Chapter 3. Military Expenditure and Peace; His Excellency, Archbishop Nikola Eterović Part 2. Disarmament for Development Chapter 4. The Road Map for the Future; Michael Møller Part 3. Sustainable Peace Chapter 5. Towards Sustainable Peace Building; Tawakkol Karman Chapter 6. The Political Conditions for a Lasting Global Peace; Samir Amin Part 4. Peace and Development Chapter 7. Peace through Work and Development; Frank Bsirske Chapter 8. Peace, Conflicts and the Armament Race in South-East Asia; Corazon Fabros Part 5. A Nuclear Weapon Free World Chapter 9. A Nuclear Weapon Free World: Mirage or Achievable Target? Jayantha Dhanapala Chapter 10. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons; Arielle Denis Part 6. Military Spending and Peace Economics Chapter 11. Recent Trends in Global Military Spending: The Shallowest Down Cycle Since World War II? Aude Fleurant Chapter 12. A Survey of Literature on Military Expenditure and Development; Manas Chatterji Chapter 13. Disarmament for Development: From a Culture of War to a Culture of Peace and Non Violence; Federico Mayor Zaragoza Part 7. The Challenge of Peace Today Chapter 14. Trade Unions and a Sustainable Policy of Peace; Reiner Hoffmann Chapter 15. Game of Thrones, Patriarchy, Feminism and Peacebuilding: How to Reconcile the Unreconcilable! Madeleine Rees Chapter 16. Brief Introduction to the Intersection of Racism and Militarism; Meena Jagannath Chapter 17. Breakthrough: How to Claim Back Our Future; Jakob von Uexkull Chapter 18. The Labor Movement and the Path to Peace; Philip Jennings Chapter 19. Learning to Disarm: Education to Realize the IPB Action Agenda; Betty Reardon Part 8. Conclusion: Disarm! For a Climate of Peace Chapter 20. IPB Action Agenda Chapter 21. IPB Youth Declaration Appendix 1. Military Expenditure and Economic Development (a Partial Bibliography) Appendix 2. World Military Expenditure

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Book SynopsisThis Research Handbook provides a broad yet detailed treatment of international arms control law. It takes stock of existing arms control agreements, addresses current challenges and aims to indicate avenues for the future development of this distinct branch of public international law. Split across nine thematic parts, this comprehensive Handbook goes beyond the pure encyclopaedic approach by providing analytical and doctrinal guidance. Chapters provide extensive analysis of international arms control law, addressing both conventional weapons and new technologies, contextualising arms control law and politics through identifying actors, forums and regulatory approaches. The impressive list of contributors also explore geographical zones of arms control including Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. Investigating both complex theoretical and recent practical approaches into arms control law, this Research Handbook will be an ideal read for interested students and academics as well as practitioners involved in conflict, security and international law.Table of ContentsContents: PART I ARMS CONTROL LAW IN CONTEXT 1 Arms control law and international conflict and security law 2 Eric P.J. Myjer and Thilo Marauhn 2 International law and international relations in arms control: The case of nuclear weapons 21 Paul Rusman 3 Technology and arms control law 40 Jonathan Herbach PART II FORUMS 4 The League of Nations period 56 Alexander Orakhelashvili 5 The United Nations as a forum for arms control 67 Eric P.J. Myjer and Thilo Marauhn 6 The UN Conference on Disarmament 77 Judith Thorn 7 The European Union and international arms control: Assessing legal competences and instruments 89 Ramses A. Wessel PART III REGULATORY APPROACHES 8 Prevention and prohibitions as elements of arms control 105 Dieter Fleck 9 Strategic trade controls 120 Daniel H. Joyner 10 Command and control as a subject of arms control 130 Barry de Vries and Rafael Lima Asche 11 Informal efforts 142 Mirko Sossai PART IV NUCLEAR WEAPONS 12 Non-proliferation of nuclear weapons 155 Tom Coppen 13 Nuclear test ban 170 Masahiko Asada 14 Limitation and reduction of nuclear arsenals 187 Piet de Klerk 15 Nuclear security 203 Jonathan Herbach 16 Regulatory regimes for missile defence systems and fissile material 215 Hennie Strydom 17 The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 235 Harald Müller PART V BIOLOGICAL AND CHEMICAL WEAPONS 18 The 1925 Geneva Protocol 250 Michael Bothe 19 The Biological Weapons Convention 258 Una Jakob 20 The Chemical Weapons Convention 278 Ralf Trapp PART VI CONVENTIONAL WEAPONS 21 The CCW – a vital potential role 298 William H. Boothby 22 The Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty 314 Wolfgang Richter 23 The Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production, and Transfer of Anti-Personnel Mines and on their Destruction 347 Stuart Casey-Maslen 24 The ENMOD Convention 359 Silja Vöneky 25 The UN Arms Trade Treaty: A breakthrough or with some birth defects? 377 Zeray Yihdego PART VII NEW TECHNOLOGIES 26 3D printing 408 Barry de Vries 27 Unmanned military systems and autonomous weapons systems 423 Robert Frau 28 The regulation of cyber weapons 440 Nicholas Tsagourias and Giacomo Biggio PART VIII SPECIFIC ZONES OF ARMS CONTROL 29 Nuclear-weapon-free zones and other nuclear-free areas 456 Natalino Ronzitti 30 Demilitarised zones 466 Marco Roscini and Marco Longobardo PART IX SUPERVISION AND ENFORCEMENT 31 The limited role of judicial dispute settlement 481 James D. Fry and Saroj Nair 32 The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) 502 Laura Rockwood 33 The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) 529 Treasa Dunworth 34 Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization: Preparatory Commission 543 Jenifer Mackby 35 The OSCE 568 Maria Brandstetter and Lisa Tabassi 36 The United Nations Security Council and arms control: A failure of responsibility 592 Mary Ellen O’Connell and Sawyer White Concluding remarks 609 Eric P.J. Myjer and Thilo Marauhn Index

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Book SynopsisMaking a timely contribution to the legal literature, this important book discusses an under-analysed issue of great importance to international peace and security. It provides a comprehensive overview and analysis of the prevention of nuclear terrorism specifically through an international (arms control) law lens.Jonathan Herbach sets out a basis for better understanding how the international legal framework for nuclear security is structured and why it is structured that way, and offers a critical analysis of the component instruments that make up the framework. He highlights the strengths and analyzes possible gaps and weaknesses of these instruments and the legal framework as a whole, as well as explaining the framework’s key characteristics, approaches and rationale. As nuclear security is by no means a static topic, with changing circumstances a defining feature of the area, the book also offers ideas for the path forward and conceptualizes ways to further strengthen the nuclear security legal framework.Offering a fresh perspective on the prevention of nuclear terrorism, this book will benefit academics and students of public international law, counter-terrorism and conflict and security law. It will also be a useful resource for governmental legal advisors, think-tanks and diplomats to inform their work on means and mechanisms to help strengthen the global nuclear security regime and to provide guidance for decision-making.Trade Review‘With the prospect of a possible tactical nuclear attack by Russia if it loses in the Ukraine war a real possibility, the subject of nuclear terrorism is once again at the top of governments’ national security concerns, especially if Russia were to utilise a terrorist group proxy to carry out such an attack. This important book provides a comprehensive examination of how nuclear terrorism can be prevented through various measures, including an international arms control regime (ACR). The author explains how an ACR is structured, its key characteristics, its strengths, weaknesses, and gaps, and future directions for strengthening it.’ -- Joshua Sinai, Perspectives on Terrorism Journal‘Jonathan Herbach has written a masterly account of the place of nuclear security, particularly prevention of nuclear terrorism, in the broader context of nuclear arms control. While focused on international law aspects, this book is invaluable reading for policymakers, diplomats, officials and others interested in nuclear security. It is an essential introduction for newcomers to this subject, and an insightful reference work for experts.’ -- John Carlson, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation and Australian Sherpa to the 2010 Nuclear Security SummitTable of ContentsContents: 1. Arms control law approach to countering nuclear terrorism 2. Developing the law of nuclear security: from Atoms for Peace to the Nuclear Security Summits 3. The main legally binding instruments applicable to nuclear security 4. Nuclear security at the crossroads of arms control and criminal justice 5. Normative soft law instruments in the nuclear security law framework 6. The role of international organizations in nuclear security 7. The way forward: strengthening the international legal framework for nuclear security Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated current affairs and geopolitics for over a decade. Yet there is little real understanding of Iran's nuclear programme, in particular its history, which is now over fifty years old. This ground-breaking book argues that the history of Iran's nuclear programme and the modern history of the country itself are irrevocably linked, and only by understanding one can we understand the other. From the programme's beginnings under the Shah of Iran, the book details the central role of the US in the birth of nuclear Iran, and the role that nuclear weapons have played in the programme since the beginning. The author's unique access to 'the father' of Iran's nuclear programme, as well as to key scientific personnel under the early Islamic Republic and to senior Iranian and Western officials at the centre of today's negotiations, sheds new light on the uranium enrichment programme that lies at the heart of global concerns. What emerges is a programme that has, for a variety of reasons, a deep resonance to Iran. This is why it has persisted with it for over half a century in the face of such widespread opposition. Drawing on years of research across the world, David Patrikarakos has produced the most comprehensive examination of Iran's nuclear programme - in all its forms to date. This new edition features interviews with the main actors who saw through President Obama's Iran nuclear deal, and give the inside story in how progress stalled under the Trump administration.Trade ReviewOne of the best and most readable accounts of a programme which has come to define Iran's relations with the West. An essential read for the general reader and specialist alike. -- --Ali Ansari, Professor of History at University of St Andrews and Director of the Institute for Iranian StudiesAn interesting and informative window into Iranian thinking ... a unique and fascinating book. -- --Mark Fitzpatrick, Director, Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Programme, International Institute for Strategic Studies... a welcome analysis of Iran's self-perception, its nuclear plans and Western responses. * The Independent *David Patrikarakos has produced an excellent account of the country's progress towards nuclear status, in which he acknowledges that neither diplomacy nor sanctions are likely to work. -- Max Hastings * The Sunday Times *What has been sorely missing from the debate about Iran's nuclear program is a serious, reported effort to understand what goes on in the minds of the Iranians. David Patrikarakos fills that void. -- Bill Keller * The New York Times *War in 140 Characters should be mandatory reading at Sandhurst -- Ben Judah * The Times *Nuclear Iran was named as a New York Times Editor's Choice in 2013 * The New York Times *Table of ContentsIntroduction 2. In the beginning was the Atom bomb: Nuclear Power and the Post-War World in the Middle East 3. The Peacock Wants to Strut: Aspiring to Nuclear Power under the Shah of Iran 4. Arms and the Shah: Developing Nuclear Weapons under the Shah 5. Slow Decline - Quick Fall: The End of the Shah’s Nuclear Programme 6. Children of the Revolution: [‘An Ideologically Unclean Atom Bomb’] 1979-1980 7. Restart? 1980-1984 [Reviving the Nuclear option] 8. We Are Victims: [Iran’s Search for New Nuclear Partners] 1984-1989 9. Iran’s version of an Islamic Bomb? Nuclear Weapons Under the Early Republic 10. Restart for Real: Iran’s Nuclear Programme Goes Live 1990-1997 11. Crisis: Nuclear Negotiations 2002-2005 12. Enter Ahmadinejad: Reversing into the Future 2005-2008 13. Enter Obama: Trying for Nuclear Détente? 14. Qom, the Natanz Site and Everything After 15. Conclusion Appendices etc.

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Book SynopsisIntegrating comparative empirical studies with cutting-edge theory, this dynamic Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of the study and practice of peacekeeping. Han Dorussen brings together a diverse range of contributions which represent the most recent generation of peacekeeping research, embodying notable shifts in the kinds of questions asked as well as the data and methods employed.The Handbook explores questions concerning the deployment of peacekeepers, the policies and activities undertaken by peacekeeping operations (PKOs), the intended and unintended consequences of peacekeeping activities, and controversies related to post-conflict crime, sexual and gender-based violence in peacekeeping, and the environmental impact of PKOs. Chapters further investigate the distinctions between UN and non-UN-led PKOs, the specific mandates under which peacekeeping operates, and the different roles of military, police, and police and civilian peacekeepers. Concluding with an evaluation of the state of the art of current peacekeeping literature, the Handbook leads the way in developing a coherent agenda for future research.The Handbook will be an essential resource for a cross-disciplinary audience of academics and students interested in IR and conflict resolution. Policymakers involved in peacekeeping and peacebuilding, as well as NGOs operating within (post-) conflict settings, will also benefit from its assessment of recent developments in peacekeeping research.Trade Review‘This volume is a significant and welcome addition to the literature and should be read by academics, practitioners, and government officials. Its objective is to provide an up-to-date overview of contemporary scholarly research, emphasize central theoretical insights, and identify questions for future research.’ -- Ross Fetterly, Journal of Peace Research‘Although peacekeeping has evolved its scope and depth during recent decades, research into its effectiveness and value for money is still scarce. This Handbook delivers an excellent overview of existing research as well as policy and operational developments in peacekeeping. It also identifies aspects in need of further research. The volume is a very useful tool for researchers, policy developers and practitioners. I highly recommend it for reading by anyone working in or with peacekeeping or solely interested in this subject.’ -- Maria Appelblom, Police Chief Superintendent, Swedish Police‘The literature on peacekeeping has blossomed in recent years. This Handbook includes chapters by many of the leading scholars of contemporary peacekeeping. It summarizes and furthers key debates about the nature and legitimacy of peacekeeping, what peacekeepers do, their effectiveness, and ongoing challenges. It represents an important and must-read contribution.’ -- Lise Morjé Howard, Georgetown University, US‘With valuable contributions from preeminent peacekeeping researchers, this Handbook will provide useful insights to peacekeeping scholars and practitioners alike, and it will make an excellent college or graduate text. I learned a lot from it.’ -- Michael Gilligan, New York University, USTable of ContentsContents: Preface xiii List of abbreviations xiv 1 Peacekeeping as rule-based interventions in international relations 1 Han Dorussen PART I THE DEPLOYMENT OF PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS 2 Mandating peacekeeping operations and international law 12 Emily Helms 3 Peacekeeping financing 27 Katharina P. Coleman 4 Consent in peacekeeping 46 Timothy Passmore, Johannes Karreth and Jaroslav Tir 5 The composition of UN peacekeeping missions 60 Vincenzo Bove, Chiara Ruffa and Andrea Ruggeri 6 Naming names: UN Security Council Resolution sentiment in civil wars 74 Michelle Benson and Colin Tucker 7 Mediation, political missions, and peacekeeping 88 Han Dorussen 8 Non-UN peacekeeping 102 Corinne Bara PART II WHAT PEACEKEEPERS DO 9 Disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) and peacekeeping operations 118 Dylan Herrera and Andrea González Peña 10 Peacekeeping, security sector reform, and the rule of law 134 Robert A. Blair 11 Public information and strategic communications in peace operations 148 Kseniya Oksamytna 12 Civilian components in peace operations 163 Jaïr van der Lijn and Sabine Otto PART III PEACEKEEPING EFFECTIVENESS 13 Peacekeeping and conflict resolution 182 Evgenija Kroeker and Andrea Ruggeri 14 Peacekeeping and the geographic diffusion and containment of conflict 196 Bernd Beber 15 Peacekeeping and the protection of civilians 210 Lisa Hultman, Jacob D. Kathman and Megan Shannon 16 Peacekeeping and electoral violence 225 Hannah Smidt 17 Peacekeeping operations and women’s security 242 Louise Olsson PART IV CONTROVERSIES SURROUNDING PEACEKEEPING 18 Peacekeeping and the problem of sexual and gender-based violence 256 Sabrina Karim and Kyle Beardsley 19 The material impact of peace operations on the environment and cultural heritage 270 Mathilde Leloup and Lucile Maertens 20 Peacekeeping and postwar violence 286 Jessica Di Salvatore 21 Hazards of peacekeeping: peacekeepers as targets of violence 300 Sara Lindberg Bromley 22 The local perception of peacekeepers 314 Han Dorussen and Marian de Vooght 23 The political economy of peacekeeping: unemployment, violence, and trust towards peacekeepers. Evidence from Somalia 327 Prabin B. Khadka and Anup Phayal 24 Peacekeeping operations: the endgame 343 Richard Caplan, John Gledhill and Maline Meiske PART V CONCLUSIONS 25 State of the art of research on peacekeeping 360 Paul F. Diehl Index

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Book SynopsisThe potential threat from primitive, inexpensive ballistic missiles, especially when armed with means of mass destruction, represents a major development in the arms race. The accelerated escalation in the number, range, and load-carrying capabilities of the missiles in the last decade has occurred because the technologies required to manufacture a missile of the Scud type and its derivatives are simple, cheap, and readily available. In contrast, interception requires technologies found only at the forefront of twenty-first century military science. This disparity, favouring the aggressor, forms a tremendous temptation for Arab states in the Middle East -- such as Egypt, Libya, Syria and Iran -- to build up stocks of missiles. This book addresses the complex issue of defense against ballistic missiles by intercepting them at various stages of their trajectory: during launching -- such as the Boost Phase Interception (BPI) project being developed by RAFAEL; in the middle of their trajectory, outside the atmosphere -- such as the THAAD project of the US Army and the AEGIS project of the US Navy; or in the final stage, when the missile is approaching the target -- such as the Israeli Arrow project. This volume poses both technical and conceptual questions regarding the issue of missile-to-missile interception, in contrast to the doctrines of second-strike retaliatory capability and pre-emptive strike. The specific threats posed by ballistic missles to the State of Israel are examined. The 16 research articles, written by leading experts in Israel, the US, and Britain, represent the first serious inquiry to address the specifics of the urgent ballistic missile proliferation and threat in the Middle East.Table of ContentsContents: Defense Against Ballistic Missiles; No Room for Error in a Minuscule Country: The Case for Enhanced Anti-Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (TBM); The Arrow System -- Concept and Data; The Missile Threat Against Israel: Boost Phase Intercept of Tactical Ballistic Missiles; Missiles, Defense and Israel; The Chemical and Biological Threat to Israel; The Failure of the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) in the Middle East; The Boost Phase Intercept (BPI) as an Alternative; The Operative Response to the Tactical Ballistic Missile (TBM) Threat; Systems Perspective: The Dangers of Fragmented Thinking; The Israeli Aspect of Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) -- Strategy by Default; Boost Phase Interception of Ballistic Missiles; Israeli Boost Phase Intercept System (IBIS) -- A Critique; The AEGIS Option: How to Provide Near-Term, Cost Effective Missile Defense to Both Israel and America; The Airborne Laser (ABL): The American View of BPI; Developing Boost Phase Intercept (BPI)Ascent Phase Intercept (API) Capability; European Perspectives on Missile Defense; Ballistic Missiles, Long-Range Artillery Rockets and Space Launch Vehicles; Glossary; The Contributors.

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Book SynopsisIn the early 1950s, Israel secretly launched a project designed to achieve a nuclear option. Initially supported by France, this daring project stood to engineer a dramatic change in Israel's strategic position vis-a-vis its neighboring Arab states and the wider international community. A nuclear program was driven by the firm conviction of David Ben-Gurion that Israel's existence could be guaranteed only with the aid of such a deterrent. The ensuing nuclear defense strategy was upheld by successive Israeli governments. Adamantly opposed to America's request to allow external supervision of its nuclear activity, Israel labored to avert a potentially disastrous rift with its one superpower ally. Israel's Nuclear Option recounts the dialogue and related diplomatic activity that took place during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and the Ben-Gurion and Eshkol premierships. The intense and often difficult discussions, which pitted Israel's security concerns against the United States' determined goal to stem nuclear proliferation, eventually produced a set of formal and informal strategic understandings regarding Israel's nuclear deterrence.Trade Review"Zaki Shalom recounts the US-Israel dialogue on Israel's nuclear project, and delineates the limitations a superpower faces when trying to impose its security agenda on a regional ally. Shalom's book is an important contribution to our understanding of the Israeli nuclear project, and the diplomacy of arms control." -- Prof. Yair Evron, The School of Government and Policy, The Security Studies Program, Tel Aviv University."In recent years much of the vaunted 'opacity' of Israel's nuclear weapons status has been stripped away by scholars and critics. In this context, Zaki Shalom contributes a thorough, painstakingly documented blow-by-blow account of the diplomatic dimension of the process by which Israel, unbidden, penetrated the nuclear club. Shalom's work is exemplary archival research, refreshingly old-fashioned in its assiduous attention to multiple primary sources, showing the strengths of a documentary focus even on such a 'sensitive' topic. As an established scholar of David Ben-Gurion he is particularly effective in underlining how Ben-Gurion's audacity was key to the decision to push ahead; put simply, there was nothing preordained or certain, in the 1950s and 1960s, about Israel's seemingly quixotic pursuit of nuclear capability." -- Alan Dowty, Kahanoff Chair Professor of Israel Studies, University of Calgary.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Neutralism in Retrospect: Definitions and Paradigms; Syrias Road to Independence: The Emergence of Pragmatic/Calculative Nationalist Neutralism; The Rise of 'Anti-Western Neutralism' in Post-Mandatory Syria; Neutralism in Practice: Syria and the Consolidation of the Arab-Asian Group; Communism, Syria, and Neutralist Trends; Syrias Rival Schools of Neutralism and the Road to Union; Nasserite 'Positive Neutralism' and the United Arab Republic; Conclusion - The Rise of the Neo-Bath and the Gradual Demise of Neutralism; Appendix - Modes of Practised Arab Neutralism; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn the early 1950s, Israel secretly launched a project designed to achieve a nuclear option. Initially supported by France, this daring project stood to engineer a dramatic change in Israel's strategic position vis-a-vis its neighboring Arab states and the wider international community. A nuclear program was driven by the firm conviction of David Ben-Gurion that Israel's existence could be guaranteed only with the aid of such a deterrent. The ensuing nuclear defense strategy was upheld by successive Israeli governments. Adamantly opposed to America's request to allow external supervision of its nuclear activity, Israel labored to avert a potentially disastrous rift with its one superpower ally. Israel's Nuclear Option recounts the dialogue and related diplomatic activity that took place during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and the Ben-Gurion and Eshkol premierships. The intense and often difficult discussions, which pitted Israel's security concerns against the United States' determined goal to stem nuclear proliferation, eventually produced a set of formal and informal strategic understandings regarding Israel's nuclear deterrence.Trade Review"Zaki Shalom recounts the US-Israel dialogue on Israel's nuclear project, and delineates the limitations a superpower faces when trying to impose its security agenda on a regional ally. Shalom's book is an important contribution to our understanding of the Israeli nuclear project, and the diplomacy of arms control." -- Prof. Yair Evron, The School of Government and Policy, The Security Studies Program, Tel Aviv University."In recent years much of the vaunted 'opacity' of Israel's nuclear weapons status has been stripped away by scholars and critics. In this context, Zaki Shalom contributes a thorough, painstakingly documented blow-by-blow account of the diplomatic dimension of the process by which Israel, unbidden, penetrated the nuclear club. Shalom's work is exemplary archival research, refreshingly old-fashioned in its assiduous attention to multiple primary sources, showing the strengths of a documentary focus even on such a 'sensitive' topic. As an established scholar of David Ben-Gurion he is particularly effective in underlining how Ben-Gurion's audacity was key to the decision to push ahead; put simply, there was nothing preordained or certain, in the 1950s and 1960s, about Israel's seemingly quixotic pursuit of nuclear capability." -- Alan Dowty, Kahanoff Chair Professor of Israel Studies, University of Calgary.Table of ContentsIntroduction - Neutralism in Retrospect: Definitions and Paradigms; Syrias Road to Independence: The Emergence of Pragmatic/Calculative Nationalist Neutralism; The Rise of 'Anti-Western Neutralism' in Post-Mandatory Syria; Neutralism in Practice: Syria and the Consolidation of the Arab-Asian Group; Communism, Syria, and Neutralist Trends; Syrias Rival Schools of Neutralism and the Road to Union; Nasserite 'Positive Neutralism' and the United Arab Republic; Conclusion - The Rise of the Neo-Bath and the Gradual Demise of Neutralism; Appendix - Modes of Practised Arab Neutralism; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis is the story of a regional process in the making: from the very concept of arms control as applied to the region, through the innovative regional forum and format for discussion that was devised for the talks, to the dynamics of the talks and the question of Egypt's position within this novel regional setting. The result was that what seemed at the outset to be a most likely unpromising forum became the setting of unprecedented regional dynamics.Trade ReviewDocuments the Middle East arms control process from 1992 to 1995, in the context of the Arab-Israeli peace process; Reveals the regional dynamics in terms of strategic gain, the meaning of power, and defining security threats; Provides hitherto unavailable details of the Arms Control Regional Security (ACRS) working group.Table of ContentsApproaching Co-operative Security Dialogue; Arms Control as a Process; The Middle East Arms Control Dialogue; The Process of Arguing: Effects of the Seminar Framework; Arab Nationalism and Egypts Leadership Identity; Egypts Role in the Arms Control Dialogue; Bilateral Dynamics within the Multilateral Framework; Conclusion; Index.

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Book SynopsisYears after 9/11, the Global War on Terror is still not over. The deepening crisis in Iraq has been accompanied by rising violence in Asia, as the bombings in Indonesia show. The 18 specialists and policymakers who have contributed to this book assess how the security scenario in the Asia Pacific has changed in response to these events.The Asia Pacific is rent by communal conflicts that have generated local jihads, which fuel regional and global jihads. This book assesses state responses to terrorism, paying attention to neglected factors such as money laundering, the emerging role of the EU, the growing fear of the US and increasing concern about the way anti-terrorist legislation curtails civil liberties. With the benefit of extensive fieldwork and access to unique sources in many languages, the contributors analyze key features of the local security scenarios. Pakistan's precarious situation is explored here from many angles, including Islamic militancy, the role of the military and the peace process with India. Again, domestic failures support regional and global terror. Regional anti-terrorist collaboration is also hampered by South-east Asia's counter-terrorism dilemmas, setbacks in the Philippine-US security relationship, the Asian arms race, and growing fears of the US National Missile Defence system and how this system will be perceived by China. The history of state sponsored terrorism and millenarian ideology are crucial to these regional scenarios. The latter, in the particular form of Japan's Aum Shinrikyo movement, reminds us that militant Islamists are not uniquely destructive. An important addition to the literature on terrorism and security, this in-depth and comprehensive analysis of a complex and increasingly unstable region will be welcomed by political scientists, scholars, policymakers, and those seeking a better understanding of whether the Global War on Terror has changed the security architecture of the Asia Pacific in a positive way.Trade Review'. . . well-thought-out approach to the topic and the presentation of needed, broad and deep insights. This volume provides an important overview of material on and related to controlling arms and terror in the Asia Pacific.' -- Ilan Kelman, Pacific AffairsTable of ContentsContents: PART I: REGIONAL POLICIES AND STRATEGIES 1. What Has Changed, and What Has Not Changed, Since 9/9? Marika Vicziany 2. Money Laundering and Security Kannan Srinivasan 3. The Role of the European Union in Asian Security Liisa Laakso 4. The Legal Response of India, Malaysia, Singapore and Australia to 9/11 Oliver Mendelsohn 5. Deadly Discourse: Reflections on Terrorism and Security in an Age of Fear Amitav Acharya PART II: CASE STUDIES ON SECURITY ISSUES IN THE ASIA PACIFIC 6. Islamic Militancy and Pakistan: Domestic and Global Implications Samina Yasmeen 7. Musharraf and Controlling Terrorism Farhan Bokhari 8. Deconstructing Muslim Terrorism Pervez Hoodbhoy 9. The Indo–Pakistan Peace Process and the China Factor Asad Durrani 10. South-east Asia’s Counter-terrorism Dilemma David Wright-Neville 11. South-east Asian Responses to Arms and Terror K.S. Nathan 12. Progress and Setbacks in Philippine–US Security Relations Noel M. Morada 13. Counter-terrorism Legislation in the Philippines Charles G.L. Donnelly 14. Issues in South Asian Terrorism S.D. Muni 15. Missile Proliferation in India and Pakistan Ben Sheppard 16. The Role of Russian Industry in the Asian Arms Race Carlo Kopp 17. China, the United States and National Missile Defence: An Australian Perspective Kim C. Beazley 18. Japan’s Experience with Terrorism Takashi Sakamoto Index

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Book SynopsisForeign affairs practitioners and policy analysts claim that international arms embargoes usually fail due to the lack of political will among national governments to implement and enforce these restrictions. This volume confronts this critique directly, first by describing a more nuanced assessment of success, and then by presenting well-informed empirical and case-study chapters that reveal arms embargoes to be more effective than often understood. The chapters in this book examine some of the more complex cases of arms embargoes such as Iraq, Pakistan, Angola, Liberia and the Great Lakes region of Africa. Readers will find data and assessments not available in prior studies, as well as frameworks that can be replicated in future research. The book concludes with policy suggestions for how arms embargoes might be strengthened and their political objectives more readily attained.Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Foreword. Introduction. Chapter 1 A framework for the analysis of the effectiveness of arms embargoes. Chapter 2 The unprecedented embargo: The UN arms sanctions against Iraq, 1990–2004. Chapter 3 The challenge of measuring success: Yugoslavia's sanctions decade (1991–2001). Chapter 4 US measures against Pakistan's nuclear policies, 1990–2001. Chapter 5 Tightening the screws in West African arms embargoes. Chapter 6 From failure to success: The impact of sanctions on Angola's civil war. Chapter 7 UN arms embargoes in the Great Lakes, 1994–2004. Chapter 8 Arms embargoes against Eritrea and Ethiopia. Chapter 9 A quantitative analysis of arms embargoes. Chapter 10 Putting teeth in the tiger: Policy conclusions for effective arms embargoes. Conflict management, peace economics and development. Putting Teeth in the Tiger: Improving the Effectiveness of Arms Embargoes. Copyright page. About the Authors. List of Tables.

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Book SynopsisThe nuclear age is coming to the Middle East. Understanding the scope and motivations for this development and its implications for global security is essential. The last decade has witnessed an explosion of popular and scholarly attention focussed on nuclear issues around the globe and especially in the Middle East. These studies fall into one of four general categories. They tend to focus either on the security and military aspects of nuclear weapons, or on the sources and mechanisms for proliferation and means of reversing it, or nuclear energy, or the logics driving state policymakers toward adopting the nuclear option. The Nuclear Question in the Middle East is the first book of its kind to combine thematic and theoretical discussions regarding nuclear weapons and nuclear energy with case studies from across the region. What are the key domestic drivers of nuclear behaviour and decision-making in the Middle East? How are the states of the Gulf Cooperation Council seeking to employ nuclear energy to further guarantee and expedite their hyper-growth of recent decades? Are there ideal models emerging in this regard that others might emulate in the foreseeable future, and, if so, what consequences is this development likely to have for other civilian nuclear aspirants? These region-wide themes form the backdrop against which specific case studies are examined.Trade Review'A top flight collection of essays on one of the most controversial and sensitive topics in both Middle East politics and studies of nuclear proliferation in general. - provides a great overview of how the current situation has come about, and how regional actors are likely to press ahead in the medium and longterm future. A solid multidisciplinary investigation into a key global issue.' * Christopher Davidson, Reader in Middle East Politics at Durham University *'Combining theoretical perspectives with rich empirical insights, this superb volume offers a comprehensive exploration of nuclear dynamics in a rapidly changing Middle East. The research is well-organized, well-written and highly nuanced - an elusive combination. The authors are informed by a deep historical sensibility, yet are also forward looking in their analyses. In particular, the chapters on the domestic sources of nuclear decision-making will be of immense value to specialists and policymakers grappling with the still-unfolding implications of the Arab revolts and Iran's nuclear ambitions.' * Frederic Wehrey, Senior Policy Analyst, RAND Corporation and author of Coping with a Nuclearizing Iran (RAND, 2011) *'While the world watches Iran, and tries to guess how many nuclear weapons Israel has, nuclear programs are being developed across the Middle East. The timely message in this valuable study of the current situation is that the Middle East is going nuclear whether the world likes it or not.' * Jeremy Salt, Department of Political Science at Bilkent University (Ankara), and author of The Unmaking of the Middle East. A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands *

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Book SynopsisThe Iranian regime is in the midst of a dangerous nuclear poker game with the West, playing for the highest possible stakes. Iran, ruled today by Ali Khamenei, the Guide of the Revolution, and the recently elected President Ahmadinejad, has no intention of yielding to international pressure exhorting it to suspend all uranium enrichment activity, a necessary but intermediate step in the process of building nuclear weapons. Iran is also seeking to join the WTO and it had been offered this incentive by the United States and the EU '3' (France, Britain and Germany) in exchange for a promise to cease enrichment. However, President Ahmadinejad's 12 April announcement that Iran has successfully enriched uranium takes the crisis to a higher plane. It also leaves many questions unanswered, above all, how the international community should respond to this unwelcome development. In this hard-hitting analysis of Tehran's intentions, Therese Delpech, one of the world's leading authorities on international nuclear security, outlines how Iran has successfully beguiled the international community for years, aided and abetted by China and Russia, both of which are eager to benefit commercially from Iran acquiring nuclear power. She dissects Iran's nuclear programme in minute detail, drawing on her inside knowledge. The first section of the book retraces the history of Iran's nuclear project from the 1970s -- one that was launched by the former Shah with help from several Western countries -- till today, when national pride, exemplified by Ahmadinejad's bellicose rhetoric, makes it highly unlikely that Tehran will bow to the diktats of the international community. She also examines the period when the programme was resumed, during Iran's war with Iraq (1985-90). The second section picks apart the strategy of the various actors in this global crisis: Iran, the EU '3', the United States, Russia, China and the IAEA (the International Atomic Energy Agency). In the third section, she sets out the various possible solutions in terms of their feasibility, practically and politically: dismantling by force, supervised third party reprocessing, referral to the Security Council, Iranian appeasement. In conclusion, Delpech unravels the tangled regional and international dimensions of the crisis, setting out the enormous impact it is having on the Persian Gulf, Turkey, Israel, America's presence in Iraq and the wider Middle East and the future of the much weakened Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NTP).Trade Review‘Therese Delpech’s authority and autonomy have never faced an outcast’s passage through a desert of scorn; instead they are bolstered by private conversations with government leaders, and in 2005 by one of France’s major literary awards, the Prix Femina for nonfiction.’ -- New York Times‘In this book Therese Delpech, a UN advisor on proliferation and an intrepid and tenacious researcher, uncloaks the network of collaboration that has enabled Tehran to reach the threshold of having nuclear weapons.’ -- Le Monde‘Therese Delpech, one of the world’s leading authorities on international nuclear security, dissects Iran’s nuclear programme in minute detail.’ -- The Middle East‘Delpech has provided an illuminating work that attempts to shed much needed light on a subject that remains cloaked by speculation and deception.’ -- Middle East Studies Association

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Book SynopsisThis major reference work is a comprehensive critical guide to the large and growing literature on the economics of defence, disarmament and peace. It covers the cost of defence spending and its effects on growth, investment, unemployment, technical change and other aspects of a nation's economic performance. It includes material on the determinants of defence spending namely defence budgets, programme budgeting and procurement policy. It also deals with the economic impact of arms limitation, disarmament and the conversion from military production to products with peaceful uses.Trade Review'. . . the Hartley-Hooper contribution clearly provides teachers, researchers and students with an invaluable and durable guide to an important literature.'

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Book SynopsisThere was an expectation that the end of the Cold War would herald a new era of peace and stability in which the importance of nuclear weapons was marginalized. Instead, we have been left with a fractious, inter-dependent international community rife with ethnic and religious tension and unbound by super-power competition. The challenges of climate change, demographic shifts and resource competition have further altered the security environment. As if this were not enough, nuclear proliferation is once again at the top of the international agenda. In the last decade the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) has been challenged from within by Iraq, Iran and Libya while India’s, Pakistan’s and North Korea's nuclear weapon capabilities are threatening the non-proliferation norm from without. The new proliferators are predominantly, but not exclusively, aggressive, unstable and authoritarian regimes, considered by many in the international community to be outside the constraints of international normative behaviour. Some have even been labelled `outlaw’, or `rogue’ states. Although inter-continental nuclear war is not presently considered a danger, the increased number of nuclear weapons states combined with the nature of those states and the strategic environment in which they exist makes the possibility of a lesser nuclear exchange potentially much greater. In parallel, the 9/11 atrocities raised fears of the prospect of apocalyptic terrorists acquiring nuclear weapons. Indications that the NPT is failing to rise to the challenge have resulted in policy decisions that have arguably reversed both the disarmament and non-proliferation norms.This volume delves deep into the changing global nuclear landscape. The chapters document the increasing complexity of the global nuclear proliferation dynamic and the inability of the international community to come to terms with a rapidly changing strategic milieu. The future, in all likelihood, will be very different from the past, and the chapters in this volume develop a framework that may helps gain a better understanding of the forces that will shape the nuclear proliferation debate in the years to come.Part I examines the major thematic issues underlying the contemporary discourse on nuclear proliferation.Part II gives an overview of the evolving nuclear policies of the five established nuclear powers: the USA, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and the People's Republic of China. Part III looks at the three de facto nuclear states: India, Pakistan and Israel. Part IV examines two `problem states' in the proliferation matrix today: Iran and North Korea. Part V sheds light on an important issue often ignored during discussions of nuclear proliferation – cases where states have made a deliberate policy choice of either renouncing their nuclear weapons programme, or have decided to remain a threshold state. The cases of South Africa, Egypt and Japan will be the focus of this section.The final section, Part VI, will examine the present state of the global nuclear non-proliferation regime, which most observers agree is currently facing a crisis of credibility. The three pillars of this regime – the NPT, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty – will be analyzed.Table of ContentsProposed Contents1 Introduction: Harsh V. PantThematic Issues 2 Nuclear Deterrence: Chris Hobbs and Matthew Harries3 Nuclear Energy and Proliferation: Henry Sokolski4 Non-Proliferation and Counter Proliferation: Mark Fitzpatrick5 Nuclear Weapons and Non-State Actors: Paul Wilkinson6 The Nuclear Taboo: Nina TannenwaldThe Five Nuclear Powers7 The USA: James Wirtz8 Russia: Stephen Blank9 The UK: Paul Ingram and Michael Collins10 France: Corentin Brustlein11 China: Jonathan HolslagDe-Factor Nuclear States12 India: Chris Ogden13 Pakistan: Bhumitra Chakma14 Israel: Arielle KandelThe ‘Problem’ States15 Iran: Anoush Ehteshami16 North Korea: Balbina HwangThe ‘Threshold’ States17 South Africa: Stephen Burgess18 Japan: Takenori Horimoto19 Egypt: Maria Rost RubleeThe Global Non-Proliferation Regime20 The Non-Proliferation Treaty: Mark Hilborne21 The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Foundations, Context, and Outlook: Dean Knox22 A Cut-Off of Production of Weapon-Usable Fissionable Material: Considerations, Requirements and IAEA Capabilities: Tariq Rauf23 Trends in Missile Defense and Space Security: Challenging Non-Proliferation Priorities: Bharath Gopalaswami24 The US-India Nuclear Deal: Great Power Politics versus Non-Proliferation: Harsh V. Pant25 Nuclear Disarmament and Nuclear Proliferation: A Complicated Relationship: Tom Sauer26 The Future: A Cautious Prognosis: Malcolm Davis

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Book SynopsisThe Handbook of Nuclear Proliferation delves deep into the changing global nuclear landscape. The chapters document the increasing complexity of the global nuclear proliferation dynamic and the inability of the international community to come to terms with a rapidly changing strategic milieu. The future, in all likelihood, will be very different from the past, and the chapters in this volume develop a framework that aids a better understanding of the forces that will shape the nuclear proliferation debate in the years to come. Part I examines the major thematic issues underlying the contemporary discourse on nuclear proliferation. Part II gives an overview of the evolving nuclear policies of the five established nuclear powers: the USA, Russia, the United Kingdom, France and the People's Republic of China. Part III looks at the three de facto nuclear states: India, Pakistan and Israel. Part IV examines two `problem states' in the proliferation matrix today: Iran and North Korea. Part V sheds light on an important issue often ignored during discussions of nuclear proliferation – cases where states have made a deliberate policy choice of either renouncing their nuclear weapons programme, or have decided to remain a threshold state. The cases of South Africa, Egypt and Japan will be the focus of this section. Part VI, will examine the present state of the global nuclear non-proliferation regime, which most observers agree is currently facing a crisis of credibility. The three pillars of this regime – the NPT, the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty and the Fissile Material Cut-Off Treaty – will be analyzed.Table of ContentsProposed Contents1 Introduction: Harsh V. PantThematic Issues 2 Nuclear Deterrence: Chris Hobbs and Matthew Harries3 Nuclear Energy and Proliferation: Henry Sokolski4 Non-Proliferation and Counter Proliferation: Mark Fitzpatrick5 Nuclear Weapons and Non-State Actors: Paul Wilkinson6 The Nuclear Taboo: Nina TannenwaldThe Five Nuclear Powers7 The USA: James Wirtz8 Russia: Stephen Blank9 The UK: Paul Ingram and Michael Collins10 France: Corentin Brustlein11 China: Jonathan HolslagDe-Factor Nuclear States12 India: Chris Ogden13 Pakistan: Bhumitra Chakma14 Israel: Arielle KandelThe ‘Problem’ States15 Iran: Anoush Ehteshami16 North Korea: Balbina HwangThe ‘Threshold’ States17 South Africa: Stephen Burgess18 Japan: Takenori Horimoto19 Egypt: Maria Rost RubleeThe Global Non-Proliferation Regime20 The Non-Proliferation Treaty: Mark Hilborne21 The Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty: Foundations, Context, and Outlook: Dean Knox22 A Cut-Off of Production of Weapon-Usable Fissionable Material: Considerations, Requirements and IAEA Capabilities: Tariq Rauf23 Trends in Missile Defense and Space Security: Challenging Non-Proliferation Priorities: Bharath Gopalaswami24 The US-India Nuclear Deal: Great Power Politics versus Non-Proliferation: Harsh V. Pant25 Nuclear Disarmament and Nuclear Proliferation: A Complicated Relationship: Tom Sauer26 The Future: A Cautious Prognosis: Malcolm Davis

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Book SynopsisThe Strategic Survey is the annual review of world affairs from the International Institute for Strategic Studies. It is an invaluable tool for interpreting world-wide strategic developments and has, since 1966, provided essential analysis of the year’s key events in international relations for government policy makers, journalists, business leaders and academics.Table of ContentsEvents at a Glance. Strategic Policy Issues. The Americas. Europe. Russia and Eurasia. Middle East/Gulf. Africa. South Asia and Afghanistan. Asia-Pacific.

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Book SynopsisAn inight into how the arms trade works, both legal and illicit.

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