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Good+ 4to. A good copy with minor wear to cover edges and corners and small area torn off front cover top corner. Back cover creased from top to tail. Immediate despatch from the UK.
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Good. Ships from UK in 48 hours or less (usually same day). Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. 100% money back guarantee. We are a world class secondhand bookstore based in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom and specialize in high quality textbooks across an enormous variety of subjects. We aim to provide a vast range of textbooks, rare and collectible books at a great price. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions. We provide a 100% money back guarantee and are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest standards of service in the bookselling industry.
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Good. No dust jacket as issued. Highlighting/underlining. Some yellow highlighted noted. viii, 229 p. Illustrations. Maps. Bibliography. Index. Introduction by Bruce Russett and Fred Chernoff.
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Very good. No dust jacket issued. Format is approximately 8.125 inches by 11 inches. Introductions by Bruce Russett and Fred Chernoff. Contents are in three sections: SALT and the History of Arms Control Negotiations; Current Strategic Arms Negotiations; and European Security. The Authors. Bibliography. Index. Among the topics and authors included are: Herbert York, Hydrogen Bomb, Herbert Scoville, Missile Submarine, Proliferation, Antisubmarine Warfare, Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation, Anti-Ballistic Missile, Limited Nuclear War, Sidney Drell, Von Hippel, Space-based, Hans Bethe, Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban, Enhanced-Radiation Weapons, Precision-Guided, No First Use, Chemical Warfare, Disarmament, Preemptive. Arms control is a form of international security cooperation, or "security regime, " aimed at limiting, through tacit or explicit agreement, the qualities, quantity, or use of weapons. The term arms control has been used loosely to denote many things in international politics involving the reduction or elimination of weapons or the tensions that lead to their use, and even as a euphemism for militarily enforced disarmament, like that imposed on Iraq by the United Nations in the 1990s. But such phenomena often do not reflect the conventional meaning of the term as it is used by arms control scholars and practitioners: a meaning that implies a cooperative relationship involving reciprocity and mutually agreed restraints. The three most important goals of arms control are (1) to lower the likelihood of war; (2) to reduce its destructive effects; and (3) to curtail the price of preparing for it. The first aim can be met by encouraging military postures that enhance deterrence and defense and thus make aggression less attractive; by reducing the instabilities of arms racing that may lead to war (see below); and by taking steps that make military "accidents" or unauthorized uses of force less liable to happen or to lead to war if they do. As for the goal of limiting damage when wars do break out, arms control measures may forbid the production, deployment, or use of certain military technologies. Finally, cost-savings can be garnered through quantitative or qualitative arms limitation agreements. Such economies are an important policy consideration, for resources not sunk into certain types of weapons can be used to promote security in other ways, or put toward other welfare-enhancing activities. Regardless of how it mixes or prioritizes these objectives, arms control has a few essential interrelated characteristics. First, it is a political relationship between actors: Unilateral arms control is an oxymoron. This does not preclude unilateral steps toward disarmament or demobilization that one state may take in order to elicit reciprocity from others and thus launch an arms control process: The determining factor is the conception of an end-state involving mutual reductions, limitations, or other restraints. Second, arms control involves strategic interdependence-the parties engaged in it are sensitive to each other's postures and actions, and their decisions to agree and comply with arms control depend on their beliefs about each other's willingness to do likewise. Third, it involves at least tacit if not explicit bargaining because the incentives to cooperate that infuse the relationship are always mixed with some degree of conflict and incentives to compete.
