Summary More than a decade has passed since the end of the Cold War, but Asia still faces serious security challenges. These include the current…
Country or Region: North Korea
Summary The Northeast Asian region has witnessed phenomenal economic growth and the spread of democratization in recent decades, yet wounds from past wrongs – committed…
Continue reading Shin, Gi-Wook. Park, Soon-Won. and Yang, Daqing
Abstract A unified Korean Peninsula will challenge U.S. strategy and policy toward the Asia-Pacific region. In this context, CSIS is conducted a 12-month study aimed…
Abstract South Korea today is bitterly divided between conservatives and the ruling coalition of progressives, who adhere to a leftist-nationalist ideology that harbors an increasingly…
Summary The Long Shadow is the first comprehensive, systematic examination of the roles and implications of nuclear weapons in the dramatically different post–Cold War security…
Summary A “second nuclear age” has begun in the post-Cold War world. Created by the expansion of nuclear arsenals and new proliferation in Asia, it…
Summary In The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed, professors Waltz and Sagan resume their well-known dialogue concerning nuclear proliferation and the threat…
Summary A long-time staple of International Relations courses, this new edition continues the important discussion of nuclear proliferation, while looking at the regions and issues…
Summary The final volume in Richard Rhodes’s prizewinning history of nuclear weapons offers the first comprehensive narrative of the challenges faced in the post-Cold War…
Summary This study presents an account of why nuclear weapons are rapidly becoming less attractive than they once seemed and what factors can motivate a…
Summary Although nearly fifty countries have a nuclear capacity, and many more are working towards this goal, only a few are actually in possession of…
Summary Deadly Arsenals provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive assessment available on global proliferation dangers, with a critical assessment of international enforcement efforts. An invaluable…
Continue reading Cirincione, Joseph, Jon B. Wolfsthal, and Miriam Rajkumar
Summary Since their inception, nuclear weapons have multiplied at an alarming rate, leaving everyone from policymakers to concerned citizens wondering what it will take to…
Summary A.Q. Khan was the world’s leading black market dealer in nuclear technology, described by a former CIA Director as “at least as dangerous as…
Summary From the publisher: In recent decades the debate on nuclear weapons has focused overwhelmingly on proliferation and nonproliferation dynamics. In a series of Wall…
Continue reading Ogilvie-White, Tanya, and David Santoro, eds.
