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Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century - The New Disorder (Paperback)
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Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century - The New Disorder (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
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This book looks at the prospects for international cooperation over
nuclear weapons proliferation in the 21st century. Nuclear weapons
served as stabilizing forces during the Cold War, or the First
Nuclear Age, on account of their capability for destruction, the
fear that this created among politicians and publics, and the
domination of the nuclear world order by two superpowers: the
United States and the Soviet Union. The end of the Cold War, the
dissolution of the Soviet Union, and the potential for nuclear
weapons acquisition among revisionist states, or even non-state
actors including terrorists, creates the possibility of a 'wolves
eat dogs' phenomenon in the present century. In the 21st century,
three forces threaten to undo or weaken the long nuclear peace and
fast-forward states into a new and more dangerous situation: the
existence of large US and Russian nuclear weapons arsenals; the
potential for new technologies, including missile defenses and
long-range, precision conventional weapons, and a collapse or
atrophy of the nuclear nonproliferation regime, and the opening of
the door for nuclear weapons to spread among more than the
currently acknowledged nuclear states. This book explains how these
three 'weakening' forces interact with one another and with US and
Russian policy-making in order to create an environment of large
possibilities for cooperative security - but also of considerable
danger. Instead, the choices made by military planners and
policy-makers will create an early twenty-first century story
privileging nuclear stability or chaos. The US and Russia can, and
should, make incremental progress in arms control and
nonproliferation. This book will be of much interest to students of
nuclear proliferation and arms control, strategic studies,
international security and IR in general. Stephen J. Cimbala is
Distinguished Professor of Political Science at Pennsylvania State
University. He is the author of numerous works in the fields of
international security, defense studies, nuclear arms control and
other topics. He has consulted for various US government agencies
and defense contractors.
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