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Enforced Disarmament: From the Napoleonic Campaigns to the Gulf War » Read Now
by Philip Towle. 272 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

At every major peace conference for the past 200 years victors have disarmed their defeated enemies to try to prevent them from overturning the peace settlement. The efficacy and durability of enforced disarmament measures, and the resistance they are likely to encounter, are thus issues of central...
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At every major peace conference for the past 200 years victors have disarmed their defeated enemies to try to prevent them from overturning the peace settlement. The efficacy and durability of enforced disarmament measures, and the resistance they are likely to encounter, are thus issues of central strategic and political importance. Philip Towle examines the most important peace settlements from the time of Napolean to Saddam Hussein in the first major history of this fascinating subject.
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Consolidating Steps for Disarmament: The United Nations' Growing Role in Arms Control, in The Ecumenical Review » Read Now
by Wolfgang Kotter, Harald Muller. 4 pgs.

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Consolidating steps for disarmament: the United Nations growing role...also has tasks in the field of disarmament. After the failures of the League...The General Assembly...
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The United States and Disarmament (1973) » Read Now
by Benjamin H. Williams. 366 pgs.

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...THE UNITED STATES AND DISARMAMENT The United States AND Disarmament By BENJAMIN H. WILLIAMS KENNIKAT PRESS Port Washington, N. Y./ London THE UNITED STATES AND DISARMAMENT...
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Disarmament, Economic Conversion, and Management of Peace » Read Now
by Manas Chatterji, Linda Rennie Forcey. 338 pgs.

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Distinguished scholars across several disciplines discuss possible negative economic and social consequences of international military disarmament, including unemployment, conversion costs, and the related hampered growth of research and development, associated with the conversion from a military...
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Distinguished scholars across several disciplines discuss possible negative economic and social consequences of international military disarmament, including unemployment, conversion costs, and the related hampered growth of research and development, associated with the conversion from a military industrial economy to a civilian complex. The authors present techniques for managing sectoral and regional economic imbalances and conclude that disarmament would ultimately release resources for foreign aid to close the gap between the world's haves and have-nots.
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On Disarmament: The Role of Conventional Arms Control in National Security Strategy » Read Now
by Ralph A. Hallenbeck, David E. Shaver, William F. Burns. 248 pgs.

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This War College text incorporates the work of practitioners, academics, and members of the U.S. negotiating team to present a concise analysis of arms reduction efforts. Its first five chapters provide a thorough understanding of conventional arms control history. Successive chapters address: the...
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This War College text incorporates the work of practitioners, academics, and members of the U.S. negotiating team to present a concise analysis of arms reduction efforts. Its first five chapters provide a thorough understanding of conventional arms control history. Successive chapters address: the role of partial disarmament; CFE proposals, data, and military implications of a successful agreement; U.S. Interagency Group process; High Level Task Force; and updates on both Vienna negotiations. This hard-headed book designed for policy makers is a valuable resource for courses in foreign policy, negotiation, political theory, and public policy.
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Conversion Survey, 1997: Global Disarmament and Disposal of Surplus Weapons » Read Now
by Herbert Wulf. 320 pgs.

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This book updates information on key issues regarding the conversion of global resources from military to civilian use. It provides unique sets of data, such as an index of disarmament and figures on employment in the defense industry. The 1997 edition emphasizes the generation, scrapping...
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This book updates information on key issues regarding the conversion of global resources from military to civilian use. It provides unique sets of data, such as an index of disarmament and figures on employment in the defense industry. The 1997 edition emphasizes the generation, scrapping, destruction, and transfer of weapon stocks which have been declared surplus because of arms control agreements, unilateral disarmament, or the end of armed conflicts. Analyses, empirical data, and policy discussions deal with heavy and light conventional arms, as well as chemical warfare agents and nuclear weapons.
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The Guns Fall Silent: The End of the Cold War and the Future of Conventional Disarmament » Read Now
by Ian M. Cuthbertson, Peter Volten. 196 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...War and the futher of Convebtional Disarmament Ian M. Cuthbertson and Peter Volten...with government officials and other disarmament experts, with the objective of...
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Disarmament and Development: A Global Perspective » Read Now
by Pradip K. Ghosh. 450 pgs.

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...DISARMAMENT AND DEVELOPMENT -ii- DISARMAMENT AND DEVELOPMENT A Global Perspective Pradip K...Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Main entry under title: Disarmament and...
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On-Site Inspection in Theory and Practice: A Primer on Modern Arms Control Regimes » Read Now
by George L. Rueckert. 281 pgs.

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Rueckert provides the first comprehensive treatment of the on-site inspection regimes included in modern arms control agreements. He looks at the core concepts of the on-site inspection approach and blends analysis of treaty provisions with a discussion of how they work in practice. The in-depth...
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Rueckert provides the first comprehensive treatment of the on-site inspection regimes included in modern arms control agreements. He looks at the core concepts of the on-site inspection approach and blends analysis of treaty provisions with a discussion of how they work in practice. The in-depth discussion covers all aspects of on-site inspection: its evolution, how various types of inspection and monitoring work, and how inspection regimes are implemented. Rueckert concludes with a discussion of the costs and benefits.
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The End of Disarmament and the Arms Races to Come, in Social Justice » Read Now
by Andrew Lichterman, Jacqueline Cabasso. 21 pgs.

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...The end of disarmament and the arms races to come...to end the arms race and negotiate disarmament, while the non-nuclear-weapons states...the nuclear arms race and nuclear...
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Khrushchev and the Arms Race: Soviet Interests in Arms Control and Disarmament, 1954-1964 » Read Now
by Lincoln P. Bloomfield, Walter C. Clemens Jr., Franklyn Griffiths. 342 pgs.

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...the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. The judgments expressed in...the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, or any other department...
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The Politics of Disarmament: A Study in Soviet-American Gamesmanship (1962) » Read Now
by John W. Spanier, Joseph L. Nogee. 228 pgs.

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...The POLITICS of DISARMAMENT The POLITICS of DISARMAMENT A STUDY IN SOVIET-AMERICAN GAMESMANSHIP by...Congress Catalog Card Number: 62-20191THE POLITICS OF DISARMAMENT is...
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Open Skies: Eisenhower's Proposal of July 21, 1955 » Read Now
by W. W. Rostow. 240 pgs.

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...bibliographical references and index. 1. Atomic weapons and disarmament. 2. Disarmament- Inspection. 3. United States Foreign relations...as an idea that might "open a tiny...
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Assize of Arms: The Disarmament of Germany and Her Rearmament (1919-1939) » Read Now
by J. H. Morgan. 364 pgs.

Collections: History, Entire Library

...ASSIZE OF ARMS ASSIZE OF ARMS THE DISARMAMENT OF GERMANY AND HER REARMAMENT 1919-1939...of Control for the execution of the Disarmament articles of the Treaty of...
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A Warless World (1963) » Read Now
by Arthur Larson. 212 pgs.

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...II Increasing security through disarmament JULES MOCH 1 1 III...The economic opportunities following disarmament HUBERT H. HUMPHREY 75 VIII Disarmament and the population...
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The CTBT and Nuclear Disarmament - The U.S. View, in Journal of International Affairs » Read Now
by John D. Holum. 18 pgs.

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...The CTBT and Nuclear Disarmament--The U.S. View. by John D...the objective of global nuclear disarmament, its efforts to obstruct the recent...has been sending on the...