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  • Living on the Edge

    Iran and the Practice of Nuclear Hedging

    by Wyn Bowen, Dina Esfandiary, Matthew Moran ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    In this book, the authors explore the controversial Iranian nuclear programme through the conceptual lens of nuclear hedging.In 2002, revelations regarding undeclared nuclear facilities thrust Iran’s nuclear activities under the spotlight and prompted concerns that Tehran was pursuing nuclear weapons. Iran has always denied nuclear weapons aspirations, yet it cannot be disputed that the Islamic ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • International Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation

    by Francesca Giovannini, Tanya Ogilvie-White, Emma Belcher, David Santoro, Alan Heyes, Wyn Bowen, Togzhan Kassenova, Elizabeth Turpen, Gavin Cameron, Michael Hamel-Green, Sara Z. Kutchesfahani, Alan J. Kuperman, Scott A. Jones ...
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    International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons—rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however, states have created a number of other mechanisms for organizing international cooperation to promote ... Read more

    $63.89 USD

  • Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons

    A Case Study of Deterrence and Coercive Diplomacy

    by Matthew Moran, Wyn Q. Bowen, Jeffrey W. Knopf ...
    Series series Bridging the Gap
    In 2012, US President Barack Obama stated that Syrian government usage of chemical weapons on its population would cross a red line that would require the US government to reconsider its approach to the civil war then underway in Syria. Syria subsequently used such weapons, creating a policy dilemma for the United States about how to respond to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's violation of the ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Libya and Nuclear Proliferation

    Stepping Back from the Brink

    by Wyn Q. Bowen ...
    Series series Adelphi series
    This Adelphi Paper examines the motives behind Libya‘s pursuit of a nuclear weapons capability, from Gadhafi‘s rise to power in 1969 through to the end of 2003. It also assesses the proliferation pathways that the regime followed during this period, including early dependence on Soviet technology and assistance, subsequently relying on technological infusions from the A.Q. Khan network.Wyn Q. ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Global Partnership Against WMD

    Success and Shortcomings of G8 Threat Reduction since 9/11

    by Alan Heyes, Wyn Q. Bowen, Hugh Chalmers ...
    Series series Whitehall Papers
    The 9/11 terrorist attacks prompted a new urgency in efforts to deal with chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear proliferati on. The potential acquisition and use by terrorist groups of such weaponry was suddenly a much increased threat. The G8 Global Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction subsequently encouraged some twenty-two countries and the ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Trust in Nuclear Disarmament Verification

    by Wyn Q. Bowen, Hassan Elbahtimy, Christopher Hobbs, Matthew Moran ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores how human factors, in particular the contested notion of trust, influence the conduct and practice of arms control verification.In the nuclear arena, disarmament verification is often viewed purely in terms of a dispassionate, scientific process. Yet this view is fundamentally flawed since the technical impossibility of 100 per cent verification opens the door to a host of ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

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    The Ethics of Cyberwarfare

    Edited by Fritz Allhoff, Adam Henschke, Bradley Jay Strawser ...
    Philosophical and ethical discussions of warfare are often tied to emerging technologies and techniques. Today we are presented with what many believe is a radical shift in the nature of war-the realization of conflict in the cyber-realm, the so-called "fifth domain" of warfare. Does an aggressive act in the cyber-realm constitute an act of war? If so, what rules should govern such warfare? Are ... Read more

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  • The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy

    Why Strategic Superiority Matters

    by Matthew Kroenig ...
    Series series Bridging the Gap
    For decades, the reigning scholarly wisdom about nuclear weapons policy has been that the United States only needs the ability to absorb an enemy nuclear attack and still be able to respond with a devastating counterattack. So long as the US, or any other nation, retains such an assured retaliation capability, no sane leader would intentionally launch a nuclear attack against it, and nuclear ... Read more

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  • Bytes, Bombs, and Spies

    The Strategic Dimensions of Offensive Cyber Operations

    Edited by Herbert Lin, Amy Zegart ...
    We are dropping cyber bombs. We have never done that before.-U.S. Defense Department officialA new era of war fighting is emerging for the U.S. military. Hi-tech weapons have given way to hi tech in a number of instances recently:A computer virus is unleashed that destroys centrifuges in Iran, slowing that country's attempt to build a nuclear weapon.ISIS, which has made the internet the backbone ... Read more

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  • Cyber-Security and Threat Politics

    US Efforts to Secure the Information Age

    by Myriam Dunn Cavelty ...
    Series series CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
    This book explores the political process behind the construction of cyber-threats as one of the quintessential security threats of modern times in the US.Myriam Dunn Cavelty posits that cyber-threats are definable by their unsubstantiated nature. Despite this, they have been propelled to the forefront of the political agenda. Using an innovative theoretical approach, this book examines how, under ... Read more

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  • Coercion

    The Power to Hurt in International Politics

    Edited by Kelly M. Greenhill, Peter Krause ...
    From the rising significance of non-state actors to the increasing influence of regional powers, the nature and conduct of international politics has arguably changed dramatically since the height of the Cold War. Yet much of the literature on deterrence and compellence continues to draw (whether implicitly or explicitly) upon assumptions and precepts formulated in-and predicated upon-politics in ... Read more

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  • Accidental Nuclear War

    Proceedings of the Eighteenth Pugwash Workshop on Nuclear Forces

    Edited by Derek Paul, Michael D. Intriligator, Paul Smoker ...
    This book constitutes the Proceedings of a meeting held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 18-20 July 1989, which was the eighteenth in a series of Workshops on Nuclear Forces held in the framework of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. This particular series of Workshops was initiated in January 1980, that is, immediately after the NATO double-track decision of December 1979 that in the ... Read more

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