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Security Without Nuclear Weapons? Different Perspesctives On Non-nuclear Security by SIPRI (Stockholm intern. peace research inst.); Ed. by Regina Cowen Karp is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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This book examines the question: is the elimination of nuclear weapons politically feasible and technically practical? With the end of the cold war, a re-thinking of the nuclear foundations of international security is imperative. There are no compelling reasons to perpetuate a cold war era nuclear security approach. Neither is the world ready to abolish nuclear weapons by agreement. What it is ready for, however, is a radical reappraisal of conventional strategic and disarmament wisdom. The book's explicit focus on non-nuclear security takes issue with prevailing pro- and anti-nuclear views. The study challenges the assumptions of the strategic community that there is no alternative to nuclear security in an anarchic international system, and of the advocates of radical nuclear disarmament who propose solutions at the expense of security. Instead, the contributors argue that nuclear weapons abolition should be seen as a long-term process, pursued on a broad political front, aimed at a steady transformation of international politics that encourages security co-operation between states. Individual chapters of the book address the major conceptual, technical, and economic issues in t

Author

SIPRI (Stockholm intern. peace research inst.); Ed. by Regina Cowen Karp

Publisher

Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780198291435

Subjects

Political Science, Social_sciences