Security with Nuclear Weapons? - Different Perspectives on National Security (Hardcover)

SIPRI (Stockholm International Peace Research Institute) is an independent institute for scientific research, which aims to further an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions to international conflicts and for a stable peace. Over the past 20 years, SIPRI has concentrated on problems of armaments, disarmaments, and arms regulation. This study analyzes the evolution of the current security order and the role of nuclear weapons in it. It investigates how and why countries have responded to the existence of nuclear weapons as they have. It traces the development of security thinking in the nuclear age through case studies of countries that have nuclear weapons, those that do not, those on the nuclear threshold and those whose security is believed to benefit from the nuclear arsenals of other countries. The framework of analysis is comparative, and the study provides insight into shared and different appreciations of the impact nuclear weapons have had upon states' understanding of national and international security. This book offers a comprehensive reassessment of the concept of security with nuclear weapons that goes beyond traditional East-West analyses of the nuclea

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Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	SIPRI Monographs
Release date:	March 1991
First published:	May 1991
Editors:	Regina Cowen Karp
Dimensions:	241 x 161 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	412
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-827839-9
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Defence strategy, planning & research > General Books > Social sciences > Warfare & defence > Weapons & equipment > Nuclear weapons Promotions
LSN:	0-19-827839-X
Barcode:	9780198278399

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