Summary The last decade has seen the United States involved in two wars, an ongoing worldwide struggle against terrorism, and more recently a severe economic…
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Summary This book stands as a rebuke to any who would attempt to forward simplistic interpretations of China’s rise. In place of parsimonious arguments, or…
Abstract Lately, there has been increasing interest among international relations (IR) scholars in Chinese thought, both as an alternative to Eurocentric IR, and because the…
Summary This volume examines a series of complex debates surrounding the role of China’s historical ideals in shaping its foreign policy. Presenting and analyzing the…
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Abstract One of the most notable features of the forging of China’s new activist foreign policy towards Africa is its emphasis on the historical context…
Summary Southeast Asia is on the cusp of joining the nuclear renaissance. Three countries in this region have announced plans for nuclear power, two others…
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…
From the Publisher: What are the causes of war? To answer this question, Professor Waltz examines in this revised version of his classic book the…
Summary This critical review of the new political science literature on the causes of nuclear weapons proliferation consists of four parts. The first section briefly…
Summary Why have nuclear weapons not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? Nina Tannenwald disputes the conventional answer of ‘deterrence’ in favour of…
Summary This International Institutions and Global Governance program Working Paper argues that current U.S. political will to reduce nuclear dangers should be channeled into a…
Summary Traditionally, Americans have viewed war as an alternative to diplomacy, and military strategy as the science of victory. Today, however, in our world of…
Summary Now combined in one volume, these two books helped focus national attention in the early 1980s on the movement for a nuclear freeze. The…
