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  • Germ Gambits

    The Bioweapons Dilemma, Iraq and Beyond

    by Amy Smithson ...
    Arms control and nonproliferation treaties are among the fingers in the dike preventing the unthinkable nuclear, biological, and chemical catastrophe. For decades the ability to ascertain whether states are hiding germ weapons programs has been nonexistent because the 1975 bioweapons ban has no inspection measures. Yet, in 1995 a small United Nations inspection corps pulled off a spectacular ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

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  • War Dogs

    The True Story of How Three Stoners From Miami Beach Became the Most Unlikely Gunrunners in History

    by Guy Lawson ...
    Soon to be a major motion picture from the director of The Hangover starring Jonah Hill, the page-turning, behind-closed-doors account of how three kids from Florida became big-time weapons traders for the government and how the Pentagon later turned on them.In January of 2007, three young stoners from Miami Beach were put in charge of a $300 million Department of Defense contract to supply ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Edge

    Is the Military Dominance of the West Coming to an End?

    by Mark Urban ...
    The size of western armed forces, their stocks of weaponry and their readiness for combat are declining. Meanwhile, growing nationalism is hampering international cooperation and fuelling conflict everywhere. The west's will - as well as its capability - to shape the world is ebbing away.Beset by economic woes, western countries are continuing the post-Cold War process of disarmament at the very ... Read more

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  • Against War

    by Desiderius Erasmus ...
    Erasmus considers war to be an unmitigated evil, which should only be turned to as a last resort. Erasmus asserts the pacificist democratic argument which is popular in the Age of Enlightenment and with modern liberals that wars are not the desire of the common man. The implication is the traditional structures of power were overturned, and politics were more democratic, wars would cease. Leaders ... Read more

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  • A High Price

    The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism

    by Daniel Byman ...
    The product of painstaking research and countless interviews, A High Price offers a nuanced, definitive historical account of Israel's bold but often failed efforts to fight terrorist groups. Beginning with the violent border disputes that emerged after Israel's founding in 1948, Daniel Byman charts the rise of Yasir Arafat's Fatah and leftist groups such as the Popular Front for the Liberation of ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • The Politics of Insecurity

    Fear, Migration and Asylum in the EU

    by Jef Huysmans ...
    Series series New International Relations
    The act of violence of 9/11 changed the global security agenda, catapulting terrorism to the top of the agenda. Weapons of mass destruction grabbed public interest and controlling the free movement of people became a national security priority.In this volume, Jef Huysmans critically engages with theoretical developments in international relations and security studies to develop a conceptual ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Chechnya - Russia's 'War on Terror'

    by John Russell ...
    Series series BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies
    The Russo-Chechen conflict has been the bloodiest war in Europe since the Second World War. It continues to drag on, despite the fact that it hits the headlines only when there is some 'terrorist spectacular'.Providing a comprehensive overview of the war and the issues connected with it, the author examines the origins of the conflict historically and traces how both sides were dragged inexorably ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • No Use

    Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security

    by Thomas M. Nichols ...
    Series series Haney Foundation Series
    For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States maintains a huge nuclear arsenal on high alert and ready for war. The Americans, like the Russians, ... Read more

    $40.49 USD

  • Nuclear North Korea

    A Debate on Engagement Strategies

    by Victor Cha, David Kang ...
    The regime of Kim Jong-Il has been called "mad," "rogue," even, by the Wall Street Journal, the equivalent of an "unreformed serial killer." Yet, despite the avalanche of television and print coverage of the Pyongyang government's violation of nuclear nonproliferation agreements and existing scholarly literature on North Korean policy and security, this critical issue remains mired in political ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

  • 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

  • Accidental Nuclear War

    Proceedings of the Eighteenth Pugwash Workshop on Nuclear Forces

    Edited by Derek Paul, Michael D. Intriligator, Paul Smoker ...
    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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  • Weapons of Mass Destruction and US Foreign Policy

    The strategic use of a concept

    by Michelle Bentley ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in US Foreign Policy
    This book examines the use of concepts – specifically ‘weapons of mass destruction’ (WMD) – in US foreign policy discourse.Current analysis of WMD definition has made headway into identifying the repercussions that the conceptual conflation of such diverse weapons – typically understood as a reference to nuclear, biological and chemical weapons – has for international security. While the concept ... Read more

    $64.99 USD