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Stable Peace Among Nations (Paperback)
Arie M Kacowicz, Yaacov Bar-Siman-Tov, Ole Elgstroem, Magnus Jerneck; Foreword by Alexander L. George; Contributions by …
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This book builds on the original conceptualization of stable peace
by Kenneth Boulding and adds contemporary theoretical and empirical
understandings of its nature, causes, conditions, dimensions, and
prospects for consolidation and expansion. In original research,
fifteen international scholars assess the policy relevance of
stable peace for the Middle East peace process and for the future
of Europe.
The most likely means of delivering a nuclear bomb on a major city
is through a successful smuggling effort by a terrorist
organization. The catastrophic damage it would cause demands
cooperative action by all responsible governments. Several U.S.
Government programs are in place to deal with this threat.
Negotiation lies at the core of preventive diplomacy. This study is
unusual in approaching preventive diplomacy by issue areas: it
looks at the way in which preventive negotiation has been
practiced, notes its characteristics, and then suggests how lessons
can be transferred from one area to another, but only when
particular conditions warrant such a transfer. The distinguished
contributing authors treat eleven issues: boundary problems,
territorial claims, ethnic conflict, divided states, state
disintegration, cooperative disputes, trade wars, transboundary
environmental disputes, global natural disasters, global security
conflicts, and labor disputes. The editor's conclusion draws out
general themes about the nature of preventive diplomacy.
Drawn from the third in a series of conferences at the Hoover
Institution at Stanford University on the nuclear legacy of the
cold war, this report summarizes the contributors' findings on the
importance of deterrence, from its critical function in the cold
war to its current role. Although deterrence will not disappear,
current and future threats to international security will present
relatively fewer situations in which nuclear weapons will play the
dominant role that they did during the cold war.
The authors highlight ways in which deterrence has been shaped by
surrounding conditions and circumstances. They look at the
prospective reliability of deterrence as a tool of statecraft in
the emerging international environment. And they look at how arms
control agreements have affected deterrence in the past and how
they could do so in the future. In addition, they look at the
ongoing debates over "de-alerting" (slowing down the capability for
immediate launch and rapid nuclear escalation) and the practical
considerations related to verification and compliance.
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