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  • Accidental Nuclear War

    Proceedings of the Eighteenth Pugwash Workshop on Nuclear Forces

    This book constitutes the Proceedings of a meeting held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 18-20 July 1989, which was the eighteenth in a series of Workshops on Nuclear Forces held in the framework of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. This particular series of Workshops was initiated in January 1980, that is, immediately after the NATO double-track decision of December 1979 that in the ... Read more

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  • Harriet Cumnor

    by Derek Paul ...
    Derek is a scientist turned generalist... he has written children's stories, plays, non-fiction and fiction and likes sequels. ... Read more

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  • A Leap to an Ecological Economy

    third edition

    by Derek Paul ...
    This book describes an economic system that would be sustainable and would enable humanity to address climate change.The most important change for humanity is to recognize the interdependence of all living species and adopt life of the biosphere as a prime value.The ecological economy will invest fully in restoring and increasing natural wealth. ... Read more

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  • Defending Europe

    Options for Security

    Edited by Derek Paul ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Cold War Security Studies
    This book, first published in 1985, examines the questions of European security that lie at the heart of the confrontation between the superpowers. It concentrates on ways of achieving defence by conventional means rather than a reliance on nuclear or chemical weapons, and at the same time focuses on possible force reductions. ... Read more

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    "A superb book....Mearsheimer has made a significant contribution to our understanding of the behavior of great powers."—The National Interest, Barry R. PosenA decade after the cold war ended, policy makers and academics foresaw a new era of peace and prosperity, an era in which democracy and open trade would herald the "end of history." The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, sadly shattered ... Read more

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  • Losing Military Supremacy

    The Myopia of American Strategic Planning

    Marytanov explains why and how the US armed forces have lost the military supremacy they thought they once had and how Russia, which supposedly had been defeated in the Cold War, succeeded not only in catching up with USA, but actually surpassing it in many key domains such as long range cruise missiles, diesel-electric submarines, air defenses, electronic warfare, air superiority and many others. ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of the Second World War: Volume 3, Total War: Economy, Society and Culture

    Edited by Michael Geyer, Adam Tooze ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of the Second World War
    The conflict that ended in 1945 is often described as a 'total war', unprecedented in both scale and character. Volume 3 of The Cambridge History of the Second World War adopts a transnational approach to offer a comprehensive and global analysis of the war as an economic, social and cultural event. Across twenty-eight chapters and four key parts, the volume addresses complex themes such as the ... Read more

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  • On Escalation

    Metaphors and Scenarios

    by Herman Kahn ...
    In this widely discussed and influential book, Herman Kahn probes the dynamics of escalation and demonstrates how the intensification of conflict can be depicted by means of a definite escalation ladder, ascent of which brings opponents closer to all-out war. At each rung of the ladder, before the climb proceeds, decisions must be made based on numerous choices. Some are clear and obvious, others ... Read more

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  • Myths of Empire

    Domestic Politics and International Ambition

    Series series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
    "Myths of Empire offers the best-developed theory to date of the domestic sources of international conflict and security policy.... Snyder has taken a major step toward ending the theoretical impoverishment of the study of the domestic sources of international conflict."― American Political Science ReviewOverextension is the common pitfall of empires. Why does it occur? What are the forces that ... Read more

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  • When Shrimps Learn to Whistle

    by Denis Healey ...
    The Soviet Union would abandon its communist principles, Khrushchev once boasted, only 'when shrimps learnt to whistle'. Now that Gorbachev has taught his shrimps to whistle, can Western politicians cope with the challenges of a wholly unchartered new world?All the major institutions of the post-war scene - NATO, the European Community, the United Nations - have been turned upside down. The stock ... Read more

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  • Concept and Controversy

    Sixty Years of Taking Ideas to Market

    by W. W. Rostow ...
    The noted economist and former National Security Advisor shares lessons learned from decades of national policymaking in this insightful memoir.A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of America's leading professors of economic history, W. W. Rostow helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues from ... Read more

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  • Clausewitz and Escalation

    Classical Perspective on Nuclear Strategy

    Published in 1991, Clausewitz and Escalation is a valuable contribution to the field of Military & Strategic Studies. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD