Abstract The question whether Russia is part of the Western world has plagued Russian intellectuals and Western observers alike for the past two centuries. The…
Country or Region: Russia
Summary A review of America’s post-Soviet strategy toward Russia is long overdue. The illusions that once guided policy are now at an end. What is…
Abstract The roots of Putin’s Plan lie not in Marxism-Leninism, but in Western business theory. True to these roots, Putin is orchestrating the election of…
Summary Once again, it appears that Russia is marching to the forefront of the international stage. Anne L. Clunan’s analysis of Russia’s resurgence convincingly argues…
Summary Russia projects a sense of renewed power and prominence on the world stage; by 2020 it’s expected to emerge as the fifth-largest economy in…
Summary This book studies the impact of cultural factors on the course of military innovations. One would expect that countries accustomed to similar technologies would…
Summary Worldviews of Aspiring Powers provides a serious study of the domestic foreign policy debates in five world powers who have gained more influence as the…
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 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…
Abstract Scott D. Sagan notes that the question of why states seek to build nuclear weapons has scarcely been examined, although it is crucial to…
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 In rich, human, political, and scientific detail, here is the complete story of the nuclear bomb. Few great discoveries have evolved so swiftly–or have…
Summary Here, for the first time, in a brilliant, panoramic portrait by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Making of the Atomic Bomb, is the…
Summary Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes delivers a riveting account of the nuclear arms race and the Cold War. In the Reagan-Gorbachev era, the United…
