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Dangerous Ground
Nation Books 2010; US$ 29.95From one of the world?s leading authorities on arms control, a probing look at America?s failed attempts at arms control, from the Truman administration to the present more...
Avoiding Armageddon
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 108.00From the destruction of Hiroshima to the conclusion of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in 1968, the international community struggled to halt the nuclear arms race and to prevent the annihilation of humanity. This study offers an accessible and authoritative account of European policy in this critical dimension of world politics. How much influence... more...
Global Governance and Biopolitics
Zed Books 2009; US$ 29.95This seminal work is the first fully to engage human security with power in the international system. It presents global governance not as impartial institutionalism, but as the calculated mismanagement of life, directing biopolitical neoliberal ideology through global networks, undermining the human security of millions. more...
Chemical Demilitarization
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 119.00For more than 15 years, the Army's chemical demilitarization program has been criticized and castigated as a potentially dangerous effort, poorly executed without concern for the public. By reviewing the chemical demilitarization program as a public policy area, Mauroni offers a different perspective on how the Army worked with Congress and the public... more...
Arms and Conflict in the Middle East
Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009; US$ 124.95This study contributes to the debate on whether defense spending encourages or hinders economic growth. The effect of politics on economic growth in developing societies is assessed, with a focus on the Middle East. The study is the first to add conflict variables to the production function defense-growth model and test them empirically across countries... more...
A Winter of Discontent
ABC-CLIO 1990; US$ 33.95. . . This is essential reading for anyone who wants to make sense of the freeze movement or make nuclear policy more responsive to democratic processes. Pam Solo, Co-director, Institute for Peace and International Security ||A rare achievement, combining impeccable scholarly research with lively, readable prose. . . . It is at the same time a careful,... more...
Peace Regime Building on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asian Security Cooperation
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2010; US$ 99.95Presents a two-track (inter-Korean and international) approach to Korean peninsula peace-regime building. more...
Rising Star
Brookings Institution Press 2010; US$ 22.95Chinas diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid-1990s, creating both challenges and opportunities for other world powers. Through a combination of pragmaticsecurity policies, growing economic clout, and increasingly deft diplomacy, China hasestablished productive and increasingly solid relationships throughout Asia and around... more...
Moral Entrepreneurs and the Campaign to Ban Landmines
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 75.60This work advances the proposition that traditional top down politics is being challenged by grass-roots, civil society based bottom up politics in that most sensitive areas, the national security/arms control dichotomy. The book uses the example of the International Campaign to Ban Landmines (ICBL), that has succeeded in reversing... more...
Permanent Alliance?
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 120.00In Permanent Alliance? Stanley R. Sloan discusses the global trends that are changing the environment for transatlantic relations, such as European integration, global security, emerging powers, and the role of the United States as a world leader. A completely updated and refocused version of Sloan’s previous work, NATO, the European Union, and... more...









