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.

Living with Peril: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nuclear Weapons

History

Wenger, Andreas

Military

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

<p>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.</p>

Regional Organisations and Security

Aris, Stephen

Taylor&Francis

Negotiating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Origins of the Nuclear Order (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations)

This volume offers a critical historical assessment of the negotiation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and of the origins of the nonproliferation regime.  The NPT has been signed by 190 states and was indefinitely extended in 1995, rendering it the most successful arms control treaty in history. Nevertheless, little is known about the motivations and strategic calculi of the various middle and small powers in regard to their ultimate decision to join the treaty despite its discriminatory nature. While the NPT continues to be central to current nonproliferation efforts, its underlying mechanisms remain under-researched. Based on newly declassified archival sources and using previously inaccessible evidence, the contributions in this volume examine the underlying rationales of the specific positions taken by various states during the NPT negotiations. Starting from a critical appraisal of our current knowledge of the genesis of the nonproliferation regime, contributors from diverse national and disciplinary backgrounds focus on both European and non-European states in order to enrich our understanding of how the global nuclear order came into being. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation, Cold War history, security studies and IR.

Negotiating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (CSS Studies in Security and International Relations)

Horovitz, Liviu

Reference

Routledge

<p>Offering a new perspective on conflict prevention, this work argues that preventive action should incorporate the business sector. The qualities that the business sector could bring to the prevention of deadly intrastate conflict are examined, and the authors propose specific ways in which businesses might be engaged in prevention efforts, especially when shown that these efforts are in their own best interests. Wenger is professor of international security policy and director of the Center for Security Studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich. Möckli is a researcher with the Center for Security Studies at ETH. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)</p>

Conflict Prevention: The Untapped Potential of the Business Sector

Business & Money

Mockli, Daniel

Management & Leadership

Lynne Rienner Pub

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