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  • Global Security Reimagined: A Multi-Disciplinary Exploration

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This edited monograph aims to unpack the discourse surrounding global security from a range of multi-disciplinary perspectives. While various aspects of security such as great power politics, border security, cybersecurity, energy security, and terrorism often absorb the main focus of academic, political, economic and media attention, this book emphasises the significance of a holistic approach ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • Revisiting the First Cold War

    A View from the 21st Century

    Series series Exeter Strategic & Security Studies
    Against the backdrop of major geopolitical developments, including Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and intensifying great-power competition in the Indo-Pacific, this book undertakes a comprehensive reassessment of the United States’ first Cold War strategy. In examining the machinations and dynamics of the Cold War era, it offers a nuanced understanding of today’s security challenges and the ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • The Digital Global Condition

    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book explores how globalization and ubiquity of digital technology combine to create specific global impacts, challenges and opportunities. Although globalization is already associated with the speeding up of interactions and change, digital globalization is characterized by immediacy. The utter pervasiveness opens new global vulnerabilities at international, national, social and personal ... Read more

    $125.99 USD

  • US Presidents and Cold War Nuclear Diplomacy

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book will illustrate that despite the variations of nuclear tensions during the Cold War period—from nuclear inception, to mass proliferation, to arms control treaties and détente, through to an intensification and “reasonable” conclusion (the INF Treaty and START being case points)—the “lessons” over the last decade are quickly being unlearned. Given debates surrounding the emerging “new ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Understanding Presidential Doctrines

    U.S. National Security from George Washington to Joe Biden

    American foreign policy has long been caught between conflicting desires to influence world affairs yet at the same time to avoid becoming entangled in the burdensome conflicts and damaging rivalries of other states. Clearly, in the post-1945 context, the United States has failed in the attaining the latter. As this new, expanded edition illustrates, the term “doctrine” seemingly (re)attained a ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • Weapons of Mass Destruction

    The Search for Global Security

    Series series Weapons of Mass Destruction and Emerging Technologies
    Whether possessed by a state or non-state actor, the specter of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs), and more specifically, nuclear weapons and their associated material, present a significant threat to global security. Notwithstanding the fact that there are fewer nuclear weapons today than the massive stockpiles that existed during the height of the Cold War, the complexities relating to nuclear ... Read more

    $34.79 USD

  • The Obama Administration's Nuclear Weapon Strategy

    The Promises of Prague

    by Aiden Warren ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
    This book comprehensively outlines and evaluates the key Obama nuclear weapons policies, developments and initiatives from 2008–2012. Beginning with the administration’s vision and goals posited in the 2009 Prague Speech and reaffirmed in the National Security Strategy of 2010, the book assesses the congressionally mandated Nuclear Posture Review, the New START Treaty, the pursuit of Comprehensive ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Nuclear Modernization in the 21st Century

    Series series Modern Security Studies
    This collection examines the extent to which nuclear weapons modernization has become a significant point of concern and consideration in international security. Recent statements and substantial investments by nuclear weapon possessor states in the upkeep and modernization of their nuclear postures – particularly the United States, Russia and China – illustrate a return of primacy and the ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Prevention, Pre-emption and the Nuclear Option

    From Bush to Obama

    by Aiden Warren ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
    Despite its portrayal as a bold departure, the Bush Doctrine was not the "new" or "revolutionary" policy instrument that many at the time portended. This work seeks to argue that while it was clear that the Bush Doctrine certainly qualified as a preventive war policy, it is apparent that the adoption of this strategy did not mark a total break with American tradition or earlier Administrations ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

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    A Critical Appraisal of American National Security Policy during the Cold War

    When Strategies of Containment was first published, the Soviet Union was still a superpower, Ronald Reagan was president of the United States, and the Berlin Wall was still standing. This updated edition of Gaddis' classic carries the history of containment through the end of the Cold War. Beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt's postwar plans, Gaddis provides a thorough critical analysis of George ... Read more

    $13.29 USD