Product Description: This book aims to examine the conceptions and practices of security adopted by Regional Organisations (ROs) across the globe. Since the end of the Cold War, there has been an increased focus on regions as a relevant realm for security, with actors within regional contexts identifying a significant degree of interdependency between one another...read more

Product Description: The first comprehensive history of NATO in the 1960s, based on the systematic use of multinational archival evidence. This new book is the result of a gathering of leading Cold War historians from both sides of the Atlantic, including Jeremi Suri, Erin Mahan, and Leopoldo Nuti...read more

Product Description: This book examines Russia's new assertiveness and the role of energy as a key factor in shaping the country's behavior in international relations, and in building political and economic power domestically, since the 1990s. Energy transformed Russia's fortunes after its decline during the 1990s...read more

Product Description: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups.  Russian Business Power explores the powerful impact these new actors are having on the evolution of the Russian state and its foreign behaviour...read more

Focuses on the significance of the early 'Helsinki process' as a means of redefining and broadening the concept of security during the latter half of the Cold War. This book sheds light on the: role of the two superpowers; controversial role of Henry Kissinger; crucial impact of European Community member states; and more.

Product Description: Especially since the anthrax attacks of 2001, the issue of bioterrorism has been controversial: Are governments underestimating the potential hazard of biological toxins, as some claim, or is the danger in fact exaggerated? What are the policy options for dealing with such a complex threat? The authors of this book offer a reasoned assessment of the issues at the core of the debates...read more

Product Description: Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia has developed a powerful business community and a potent network of transnational organized groups.  Russian Business Power explores the powerful impact these new actors are having on the evolution of the Russian state and its foreign behaviour...read more

Product Description: This essential new volume reviews the threat perceptions, military doctrines, and war plans of both the NATO alliance and the Warsaw Pact during the Cold War, as well as the position of the neutrals, from the post-Cold War perspective...read more

Product Description: This work summarizes the presentations, workshops, and plenary sessions of the October 2002 International Security Forum, the first held after the September 11th attacks. Bringing together contributions from government officials, representatives of non-governmental organizations, and academics, the conference focused on the topics of information a...read more

Tracing the evolution of international relations since the onset of the Cold War, the authors of this volume draw on recently available archival resources to narrate world affairs from 1945 to the present. Events are addressed chronologically, with attention to both their motivations and their significance. The focus is on issues of security in the very broadest sense, ranging from politics and economics to ecological and social problems. A distinctive feature of the text is the clear, concise explanation of the key theories and concepts of international relations, supplemented by an extensive glossary. In tying events to IR theory, the authors attepmt to make that theory accessible.

Product Description: Despite intensive international efforts in the area of conflict prevention,there is still little argument about how civil wars (as well as interstate wars) might best be averted - and the many attempts at preventive action have not been strikingly successful...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Living with Peril explains in detail how the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations adapted to the reality of a Soviet nuclear force capable of destroying the United States and against which there was no effective defense. Wenger illuminates the development, implementation, and evolution of U.S. government policies designed to avoid war and to respond to the vulnerability of nuclear destruction. Drawing from a wealth of sources, Wenger provides an insightful and original perspective on the origins of cold war nuclear diplomacy. This is crucial reading for students and scholars of international relations, peace and conflict studies, and diplomatic history. (view table of contents)