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The view that America and Russia have burned their candles on security cooperation with respect to nuclear weapons is simply mistaken. This timely study identifies twelve themes or issue areas that must be addressed by the United States and Russia if they are to provide shared, successful leadership in the management of nuclear world order. Designed as supplementary reading in upper division and graduate courses in national security policy, de...

Offers expert prognosis about the role of nuclear weapons and nuclear arms control in future U.S. defense and security policy.

As the Soviet enigma becomes increasingly elusive to Western analysts, the readings in this book examine whether the Soviet challenge of the 1990s can best be characterized as peacefully offensive or as operational entrapment.

Challenge to Deterrence is based on a panel discussion from the 1985 American Political Science Association meeting in New Orleans. In this comprehensive study, eminent scholars address all aspects of U.S. deterrence policy from both technical and policy aspects. Along with discussions on technology currently available to the U.S. and how it can be used more effectively, contributors speculate on Soviet strategic planning and how the U.S. can ...

The first book to analyze strategic war termination from a policy perspective, Strategic War Termination explores present US policy on termination and recommends strategies for improving it. Taking into account the impact of new weapons technologies, adversaries' expectations, and counter-command attacks, this unique work examines methods for deterrence of global protracted and nuclear wars as well as the conduct and termination of them. Timel...

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This work attempts to clarify the major problems facing Russia's armed forces in the present and immediate future.

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This is the most comprehensive view of nuclear weapons policy and strategy currently available. The author¿s division of the nuclear issue into the three ages is a never seen before analytical construct. With President Obama reelected, the reduction and even elimination of nuclear weapons will now rise to the top of the agenda once more. Moreover, given the likelihood of reductions in US defense spending, the subject of the triad, which is cov...

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Authors contributing to this study examine a wide range of issues, including: the contrast between theory and practice in civil-military relations, the role perceptions of military professionals across generations, the character of civil-military relations in authoritarian or other democratically-challenged political systems, the usefulness of business models in military management, the attributes of civil-military relations during unconventio...

This volume traces the changing relationship between Russia and NATO through the prism of conventional arms control, specifically the negotiation, implementation and adaptation of the CFE (Conventional Forces in Europe) Treaty.

War, as Clausewitz reminds, is the most uncertain of human political and social activities. This study looks at the experience of the United States and other member states of NATO in four situations of multinational military intervention - Lebanon, the Persian Gulf, the Balkans, and South Asia - and considers the implications of nuclear arms reductions and nonproliferation for the US and NATO.

This book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century.

Russia grapples with the radical post-Cold War world order

This work attempts to clarify the major problems facing Russia's armed forces in the present and immediate future. Russia's military has been in decline since the end of the Cold War. Its fledgling democracy and struggling economy have also served as an inertial drag on military reform. Nevertheless, Russia has a strong military tradition dating back to Tsarist times, and that tradition includes World War II and Cold War achievements of the So...

At the end of the Cold War security concerns are more about regional and civil conflicts than nuclear or Eurasian global wars. Stephen Cimbala argues that deterrence characteristics of the pre-Cold War period will in the 21st century again become normative.

First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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