Strategic Arms Control In The Post Start Era

This volume sets out and examines the major issues affecting the future of strategic arms control beyond the START Treaty, beyond the old East-West confrontation, and beyond the Soviet state itself. The product of a working group convened by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, it contains selected papers by an authoritative group of scholars and practitioners, among them Paul H. Nitze, former chief START negotiator and senior adviser to the Reagan administration, and Gennady K. Khromov former senior representative of Soviet military industries in the Kremlin. Addressing options for reducing strategic arms, approaches for negotiation, and the impact of factors such as cost and new technologies, Strategic Arms Control in the Post-START Era is a timely work which will inform discussion and debate at the highest levels and within the broad policy community.

In this groundbreaking analysis, Stuart Croft brings the subject of arms control into the era of complex, multi-polar international relations. He moves beyond the narrow definitions of the phenomenon associated with the Cold War to show how it not only has a long past, but also a clear future. The author begins by tracing the history of agreements between polities over weapons back to ancient times. An understanding of this history allows him to put forward a typology of arms control. It occurs at the end of major conflicts, stabilises balances between states, develops norms of behaviour, manages weapons proliferation, and acts as a tool of international organisations. Stuart Croft examines the evolution of these five qualitatively different strategies, and applies the typology to arms control agreements in the post-Cold War world. This definitive new study will be of interest to students in international relations and security studies, as well as specialists in these disciplines.

As U.S. Arctic policy remains stagnant, Russia and China are expanding their economic and military presence in the Arctic. In a battleground for great power competition, the United States must restore its presence and leadership in this increasingly strategic region.

The authors then elaborate a preliminary agenda for exploring with China the requirements of strategic stability in the emerging era and of testing Beijing's intention to continue some form of restraint in the years ahead."--BOOK JACKET.

2014 Reprint of 1961 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. This study is an attempt to identify the meaning of arms control in the post war period. It presents an analysis of arms control with particular emphasis on the military policy involved. The general objectives of the study is to advance some aspects of the intellectual state of the art in arms control and to provide some concrete data on the technical and strategic problems of importance. Schelling remains relevant today for his work on game theory.