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Modern Security Studies eBook Series

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  • The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament

    Obstacles to and Opportunities for Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

    by Tim Street ...
    Series series Modern Security Studies
    This book explores what political conditions must be established and what obstacles overcome for the fi ve offi cial Nuclear Weapon States (NWS)— China, France, Russia, the UK and US— to eliminate their nuclear weapons.The different views and positions of a range of actors concerning nuclear weapons issues— including elite perspectives and public opinion— and the political assumptions underpinning ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

    Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World?

    by Sverre Lodgaard ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via www.tandfebooks.com as well as the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license and is part of the OAPEN-UK research project.This book examines the current debate on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, notably the ... Read more

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  • Competing with the Soviets

    Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America

    by Audra J. Wolfe ...
    Series series Hopkins Introductions to the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
    A synthetic account of how science became a central weapon in the ideological Cold War.Honorable Mention for the Forum for the History of Science in America Book Prize of the Forum for the History of Science in AmericaFor most of the second half of the twentieth century, the United States and its allies competed with a hostile Soviet Union in almost every way imaginable except open military ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • The New Age of Catastrophe

    by Alex Callinicos ...
    The world is entering a new age of catastrophe. The exceptional is becoming normal. The last such crisis, between 1914 and 1945, witnessed two world wars, the Great Depression, and the Holocaust. Now humankind faces fresh existential threats – the COVID-19 pandemic, wildfires, floods and other extreme weather events caused by accelerating climate change, and the danger of nuclear war in the wake ... Read more

    $20.00 USD

  • Power in the Global Information Age

    From Realism to Globalization

    by Joseph S. Nye Jr. ...
    One of the most brilliant and influential international relations scholars of his generation, Joseph S. Nye Jr. is one of the few academics to have served at the very highest levels of US government. This volume collects together many of his key writings for the first time as well as new material, and an important concluding essay which examines the relevance of international relations in ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • The Case for U.S. Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century

    by Brad Roberts ...
    "An excellent contribution to the debate on the future role of nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence in American foreign policy." ― Contemporary Security PolicyThis book is a counter to the conventional wisdom that the United States can and should do more to reduce both the role of nuclear weapons in its security strategies and the number of weapons in its arsenal. The case against nuclear ... Read more

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  • Canada and the Nuclear Arms Race

    by Ernie Regehr ...
    First published in 1983, this book reports from the middle of the nuclear arms race, when the world's two superpowers, the US and the USSR, were adding increasingly sophisticated weapons to their arsenals, reaching a point where they could effectively wipe each other out many times over. Some of Canada's most distinguished critics of the nuclear arms race examine this drift to annihilation, show ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The China Choice

    Why We Should Share Power

    by Hugh White ...
    China is rising. But how should the West - and the United States in particular - respond? This could be the key geopolitical question of the twenty-first century, according to strategic expert Hugh White, with huge implications for the future security and prosperity of the West as a whole. The China Choice confronts this fundamental question, considering the options for the Asian century ahead. As ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Nuclear North

    Histories of Canada in the Atomic Age

    by Susan Colbourn, Timothy Andrews Sayle ...
    Series series The C.D. Howe Series in Canadian Political History
    Since the first atomic weapon was detonated in 1945, Canadians have debated not only the role of nuclear power in their uranium-rich land but also their country’s role in a nuclear world.The Nuclear North investigates critical questions in these ongoing debates. Should Canada belong to international alliances that depend on the threat of using nuclear weapons for their own security? Should ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Return of Bipolarity in World Politics

    China, the United States, and Geostructural Realism

    by Øystein Tunsjø ...
    Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the international system has been unipolar, centered on the United States. But the rise of China foreshadows a change in the distribution of power. Øystein Tunsjø shows that the international system is moving toward a U.S.-China standoff, bringing us back to bipolarity—a system in which no third power can challenge the top two.The Return of Bipolarity in ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Security Studies

    An Introduction

    Edited by Paul D Williams, Matt McDonald ...
    Security Studies: An Introduction, 4th edition, is the most comprehensive textbook available on the subject, providing students with in-depth coverage of traditional and critical approaches and an essential grounding in the debates, frameworks, and issues of the contemporary security agenda.This new edition has been completely revised and updated, to cover major developments such as COVID-19, the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The National Politics of Nuclear Power

    Economics, Security, and Governance

    by Benjamin K. Sovacool, Scott Victor Valentine ...
    Series series Routledge Global Security Studies
    This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the dynamics driving, and constraining, nuclear power development in Asia, Europe and North America, providing detailed comparative analysis.The book formulates a theory of nuclear socio-political economy which highlights six factors necessary for embarking on nuclear power programs: (1) national security and secrecy, (2) technocratic ideology, (3) ... Read more

    $65.99 USD