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1. Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy

   Normalisation and acceptance after the Cold War

   By Andrew Futter

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This book examines the transformation in US thinking about the role of Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) in national security policy since the end of the Cold War. The evolution of the BMD debate after the Cold War has been complex, complicated and punctuated. As this book shows, the debate and...

   Published March 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. Psychology, Strategy and Conflict

   Perceptions of Insecurity in International Relations

   Edited by James W. Davis

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis of international relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century. International relations theory urgently needs strategies for coping with the growing complexity of the international system following the collapse of...

   Published September 30th 2012 by Routledge
3. Reconceptualizing Deterrence

   Nudging Toward Rationality in Middle Eastern Rivalries

   By Elli Lieberman

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This book offers a reconceptualisation of conventional deterrence theory, and applies it to enduring rivalries in the Middle East. The work argues that many of the problems encountered in the development of deterrence theory lay in the fact that it was developed during the Cold War, when the...

   Published August 5th 2012 by Routledge
4. Unipolarity and World Politics

   A Theory and its Implications

   By Birthe Hansen

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This new book offers a coherent model of a unipolar world order. Unipolarity is usually described either as a ‘brief moment’ or as something historically insignificant. However, we have already seen nearly twenty years of virtual unipolarity and this period has been of great significance for world...

   Published July 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Arms Control in the 21st Century

   Between Coercion and Cooperation

   Edited by Oliver Meier, Christopher Daase

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This volume evaluates the impact of coercive arms control efforts to curb the spread of weapons of mass destruction in the twenty-first century. A new paradigm in arms control is gradually replacing the idea that mutually agreed restrictions on armaments can improve international security. Thus,...

   Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge
6. The National Politics of Nuclear Power

   Economics, Security, and Governance

   By Benjamin Sovacool, Scott Victor Valentine

   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...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
7. Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century

   The New Disorder

   By Stephen J. Cimbala

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century. Nuclear weapons served as stabilizing forces during the Cold War, or the First Nuclear Age, on account of their capability for destruction, the fear that this created among...

   Published March 28th 2012 by Routledge
8. Disarmament Diplomacy and Human Security

   Regimes, Norms and Moral Progress in International Relations

   By Denise Garcia

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   This book assesses how progress in disarmament diplomacy in the last decade has improved human security. In doing so, the book looks at three cases of the development of international norms in this arena. First, it traces how new international normative understandings have shaped the evolution of...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
9. Nuclear Energy and Global Governance

   Ensuring Safety, Security and Non-proliferation

   By Trevor Findlay

   Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

   The book considers the implications of the nuclear energy revival for global governance in the areas of safety, security and non-proliferation. Increased global warming, the energy demands of China, India and other emerging economic powerhouses and the problems facing traditional and alternative...

   Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge
10. Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

    Towards a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World?

    By Sverre Lodgaard

    Series: Routledge Global Security Studies

    This book examines the current debate on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament, notably the international non-proliferation regime and how to implement its disarmament provisions. Discussing the requirements of a new international consensus on nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, this...

    Published March 21st 2012 by Routledge