1st Edition

Intervention and Disarmament In a Culturally Diverse World

By Philip Towle Copyright 2022
182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

182 Pages
by Routledge

In this book, some of Philip Towle’s major contributions are brought together to shed light on the Cold War and its aftermath. Topics include the build-up of chemical and nuclear weapons, the attack on New York’s World Trade Center in 2001, intervention in overseas conflicts and the role of the Church. The first section concentrates on the ways in which the West has interfered in conflicts... Read more

Introduction  Part 1 1. Culture and Intervention  2. Politics and Religion  3. The Strategy of War by Proxy  4. Should the West Arm Guerrillas?  5. The British Debate about Intervention in Yugoslavia  6. Forecasting the Outcome of the Gulf War  7. The PGM Revolution in Weaponry  Part 2 Introduction 8. Blackett and Nuclear weapons  9. Winston Churchill and British Disarmament Policy  10. Arms Control and declining Powers  11. The Soviet Union and the Biological Weapons Convention  12. Autocrats and MDW 13. Forced Disarmament Without War  14. Minimum Deterrence and Democratic Verification  Conclusion

Biography

Philip Towle is a retired Fellow of Queens’ College, Cambridge and a former Director of the Cambridge Centre of International Studies. Before Cambridge he held posts at the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office and the Australian National University. He is the author or editor of 14 books and 37 chapters in other publications. His books include Arms Control and East-West Relations (1982), Enforced Disarmament (1997), Democracy and Peacemaking (2000), Going to War (2009), History, Empathy and Conflict (2018).