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This title was first piblished in 2000: Christoph Bluth provides a
comprehensive and timely analysis of strategic nuclear arms policy
in the United States and Russia and examines the collaborative
efforts to reduce nuclear weapons through arms control and render
nuclear weapons and fissile materials in Russia secure. He
concludes that the end of the Cold War has created new and
unprecedented dangers and that these dangers require a greater
political will and cooperation which have so far been lacking.
This title was first piblished in 2000: Christoph Bluth provides a
comprehensive and timely analysis of strategic nuclear arms policy
in the United States and Russia and examines the collaborative
efforts to reduce nuclear weapons through arms control and render
nuclear weapons and fissile materials in Russia secure. He
concludes that the end of the Cold War has created new and
unprecedented dangers and that these dangers require a greater
political will and cooperation which have so far been lacking.
In this book, Christoph Bluth provides an original analysis of one
of the most perplexing periods of Soviet foreign and military
policy--the build up of strategic forces from the death of Stalin
to the SALT I agreement. Bluth outlines Soviet strategic arms
policy in this period, identifies the principal interest groups
involved and studies a number of critical decisions taken in
relation to strategic bombers, strategic nuclear forces based at
sea, ballistic missile defence and the military uses of space.
Strategic arms policy in the Khrushchev period exhibited a number
of apparent paradoxes which the author explains. As well as
examining external threat assessment and wider foreign policy, he
pays particular attention to the role of domestic factors such as
Khrushchev's endeavours to shift resources away from the military
industries to agriculture and the production of consumer goods.
Bluth is therefore able to demonstrate how domestic priorities and
internal power struggles account for some of the seeming
inconsistencies of military and foreign policy. Given current
reassessments of the nature of the Soviet military threat and the
revival of interest in the Khrushchev period, this book is most
topical. Using source material hitherto unavailable, Bluth
combines, for the first time, an analysis of foreign, military and
domestic policy. Soviet strategic arms policy before SALT will,
therefore, be of interest to a wide range of students and
specialists of Soviet affairs, strategic studies and international
relations.
In this book, Dr Christoph Bluth presents an original analysis of
the build up of strategic forces from the death of Stalin to the
SALT I agreement. The author outlines Soviet strategic arms policy,
he identifies the principal interest groups involved and he studies
a number of critical decisions taken in relation to strategic
bombers, ICBMs, strategic nuclear forces based at sea, ballistic
missile defence and the military uses of space. Strategic arms
policy in the Khrushchev period exhibited a number of apparent
paradoxes, which the author explains. As well as examining external
threat assessment and wider foreign policy, he pays particular
attention to the role of domestic factors such as Khrushchev's
endeavours to shift resource away from military industries to
agriculture and consumer goods production. The author is therefore
able to demonstrate how domestic priorities and internal power
struggles account for the seeming inconsistencies of Soviet
military and foreign policy.
For many in the West, North Korea is a secretive, reclusive, and
enigmatic country, a rogue state that threatens the world with its
nuclear program and ballistic missiles. Confronted with its
numerous provocations involving nuclear tests and missile launches,
however, the international community still has not formulated a
coherent response. So how do we understand the crisis on the Korean
peninsula that has persisted well beyond the end of the Cold War?
Christoph Bluth presents an in-depth analytical account of North
Korea’s development from a Soviet satellite to a failed state in
the post–Cold War period. He also explains South Korea’s
transition from a military dictatorship to a modern democracy with
a thriving economy. Based on interviews with key policymakers and
experts located in South Korea, Bluth’s study throws light on
Korean hopes for unification and the future of the U.S.–Republic
of Korea alliance. U.S. policy toward North Korea has been
politically controversial, with some supporting engagement and
negotiations, and others calling for isolating the regime on the
basis that it cannot be trusted. Neither approach will work,
according to Bluth, who explains that North Korea’s foreign and
security policy is the result of both the internal and external
threats to the survival of a regime that can no longer sustain
itself. A suitable text for undergraduates as well as
postgraduates, this book will be of interest to anyone with an
interest in Korea, international security, and, in particular,
nuclear nonproliferation.
This book is a study of cooperative security efforts between the
United States and Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union. It
undertakes an analysis of the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR)
Program and several other programs established by different U.S.
Departments. The CTR process demonstrates both, the achievements
and limitations of the evolving new framework of interaction
between the U.S. and Russia. This investigation is the first
attempt to use the CTR process as a case study for U.S.-Russian
strategic relations in the post-Cold War international security
system. By answering the questions of why this process is prone to
some persistent problems of implementation and why it was possible
in the first place, it yields significant conclusions regarding the
nature of U.S.-Russian relations, and the achievements as well as
limitations in the bilateral relationship since the end of the Cold
War. "From Antagonism to Partnership" contributes to the existing
literature on cooperative threat reduction as a study linking CTR
to the wider context of the opportunities, challenges and
constraints determining the nature of post-Cold War relations
between the U.S. and Russia.
Central Asia and the Caucasus are of immense geopolitical
importance for the US and Russia, but neither power has
successfully established regional hegemony. After the collapse of
the Soviet Union in 1991, the states of the Caspian region began to
develop their oil and gas reserves, and as a result their
importance on the international stage is increasing rapidly.
Considering the impact of events such as 9/11 and the wars in
Afghanistan and Iran, alongside issues including national security,
energy policies and American ambitions to limit Russian influence,
Christopher Bluth explains why the US has failed to establish
authority in this globally significant region. Examining US policy
from Clinton to Obama and drawing on interviews with leading
figures in the US administration, this study presents the first
systematic analysis of US policy towards the Caspian states.
This book gives a comprehensive account of post-war British and
German policies towards nuclear weapons and how these interacted in
the context of alliance strategy. In this fascinating explanation
of an important, but previously unresearched topic, the author
gives a detailed account of major episodes in the evolution of the
alliance and its doctrine - such as the MLF debate, the origins of
flexible response, theatre modernization programmes - and
demonstrates how British and German interests impinged upon these
episodes. On occasion, these interests converged; at others, they
diverged and Britain and Germany took on the role of protagonists.
In all of this, one of the less well-known nuclear relationships
within the alliance comes vividly into focus. The book tells this
part of the alliance's story for the first time, and, in the
accounts of the development of German strategy, brings a
refreshingly new perspective to the predominant Anglo-American
interpretations.
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