William Walker

A Perpetual Menace

Nuclear Weapons and International Order

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Written by a leading scholar in the field of nuclear weapons and international relations, this book examines 'the problem of order' arising from the existence of weapons of mass destruction.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9780415421065
• ISBN-10: 0415421063
• Artikelnr.: 22531983

Autorenporträt

William Walker is Professor of International Relations at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include nuclear politics and the governance of technology.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue 1. Introduction: The Problem of International Nuclear Order and
Their Understanding 2. The Awakenings, 1939-46 3. Sculpting an Order out of
Disorder: Nuclear Weapons and the Cold War 4. Two Crises of Nuclear Order,
1973-1986 5.The Nuclear Order's Consolidation, 1986-1997 6. Into a Second
Nuclear Age? Shifting and Expanding Problems of Nuclear Order, 1997-2007 7.
Back to Nuclear Disarmament and the NPT's Invigoration 8. Heading for the
Rocks?