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Approaching the Nuclear Tipping Point - Cooperative Security in an Era of Global Change (Hardcover)
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Approaching the Nuclear Tipping Point - Cooperative Security in an Era of Global Change (Hardcover)
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Globalization and technology have created new challenges to
national governments. As a result, they now must share power with
other entities, such as regional and global organizations or large
private economic units. In addition, citizens in most parts of the
world have been empowered by the ability to acquire and disseminate
information instantly. However this has not led to the type of
international cooperation essential to deal with existential
threats. Whether governments can find ways to cooperate in the face
of looming threats to the survival of human society and our
environment has become one of the defining issues of our age. A
struggle between renewed nationalism and the rise of a truly global
society is underway, but neither global nor regional institutions
have acquired the skills and authority needed to meet existential
threats, such as nuclear proliferation. Arms control efforts may
have reduced the excesses of the Cold War, but concepts and
methodologies for dealing with the nuclear menace have not kept up
with global change. In addition, governments have shown
surprisingly little interest in finding new ways to manage or
eliminate global and regional competition in acquiring more or
better nuclear weapons systems. This book explains why nuclear
weapons still present existential dangers to humanity and why
engagement by the United States with all states possessing nuclear
weapons remains necessary to forestall a global catastrophe. The
terms of engagement, however, will have to be different than during
the Cold War. Technology is developing rapidly, greatly empowering
individuals, groups, and nations. This can and should be a positive
development, improving health, welfare, and quality of life for
all, but it can also be used for enormous destruction. This book
reaches beyond the military issues of arms control to analyze the
impact on international security of changes in the international
system and defines a unique cooperative security agenda.
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