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OverviewDuring the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union accepted Mutual Assured Destruction, or MAD, to facilitate strategic arms control. Now the Cold War has been replaced by asymmetric warfare, and the demise of the Soviet Union has prompted a new set of proliferation nightmares. Treaties based on nuclear overkill and national vulnerability are now outdated, and must be adapted to a far different world. A new strategic concept of Cooperative Threat Reduction is needed to replace MAD. The last wave of creative thinking about strategic arms control crested over four decades ago. This book presents a new strategic concept to deal with the demise of the Soviet Union and the rise of asymmetric warfare. The United States has developed cooperative threat reduction programs to safeguard dangerous materials and weapons in the former Soviet Union. These efforts deserve to be expanded and elevated into a central organizing principle to increase national, regional and global security. Full Product DetailsAuthor: M. KreponPublisher: Palgrave USA Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.540kg ISBN: 9780312295561ISBN 10: 0312295561 Pages: 295 Publication Date: 06 February 2003 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviews'Michael Krepon's book offers a timely and incisive overview of the current debate on missile defences...the chapters emphasising the importance of cooperative threat reduction in addressing the dangers associated with arms proliferation and the rise of asymmetric warfare shoudl be required reading for academics and policymakers in the field.' - Ricardo Richards, Cambridge Review of International Affairs Author InformationMICHAEL KREPON is the Founding President of the Henry L. Stimson Center. He is the author and editor of eight books, including Strategic Stalemate, Nuclear Weapons and Arms Control in American Politics, Arms Control in the Reagan Administration, The Politics of Arms Control Treaty Ratification, Crisis Prevention, Confidence Building, and Reconciliation in South Asia, and Global Confidence Building: New Tools for Troubled Regions. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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