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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Albert Carnesale , Paul Doty , Stanley Hoffmann , Samuel P. HuntingtonPublisher: Harvard University Press Imprint: Harvard University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.499kg ISBN: 9780674536654ISBN 10: 0674536657 Pages: 288 Publication Date: 01 June 1983 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsHarvard president Derek Bok had the idea that the universities should be educating the populace about great social issues, so he called on five of the university's faculty members and one graduate student to try to supply the public as a whole with an objective account of the basic facts about nuclear arms control that sorted out the various issues and proposals and presented the arguments for and against each position. The naivete of Bok's hope has born fruit in this mushy study, which tries to incorporate everyone's point of view, from Stanley Hoffmann on the near left to Samuel P. Huntington on the more distant right (the others are biochemist Paul Doty, public policy professor Albert Carnesale, political scientist Joseph S. Nye, Jr., and Scott D. Sagan, a political science graduate student and Staff Director of the project). This makes for the kind of study that concludes with advice like this: Where Americans should stand on the range of moral, political, and strategic dilemmas forced upon us by nuclear weapons must be determined by each individual after careful thought and according to his or her values, judgments, and assumptions. After reviewing, in primer fashion, the history of the arms race and its attendant concepts - which are becoming much more widely understood by the audience this book addresses than the authors seem to think - the study comes to some unremarkable policy conclusions, including support for the concept of deterrence (in accordance with the Catholic bishops' position), endorsement of a stronger conventional force (also as a deterrent, presuming that conventional warfare would come first), advocacy of crisis stabilization through arms negotiations, and a more limited and flexible sense of American national interests. This is another of those realistic approaches that are so much less interesting, and less thought-provoking, than the pointed arguments of Schell, Zuckerman, Kennan, et al. (Kirkus Reviews) Author InformationAlbert Carnesale is Academic Dean at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He served on the U.S. delegation to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (1970–1972) and as the head of the U.S. delegation to the International Nuclear Fuel Cycle Evaluation (1978–1980). Paul Doty was Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was involved in the Manhattan Project and was a member of the President’s Science Advisory Committee in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. Stanley Hoffmann (1928–2015) was Paul and Catherine Buttenwieser University Professor at Harvard University. Samuel P. Huntington was Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs at Harvard University and the author of The Clash of Civilizations, The Soldier and the State, Political Order in Changing Societies, and American Politics: The Promise of Disharmony, among other books. Joseph S. Nye, Jr., is Dean of the Faculty and Don K. Price Professor of Public Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Scott D. Sagan is a Teaching Fellow in the History Department at Harvard University and served as Staff Director of the Project. Derek C. Bok is President Emeritus and Three Hundredth Anniversary University Professor, Harvard University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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