Slaying the Nuclear Dragon - Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century

Informationen zum Autor Tanya Ogilvie-White is a senior lecturer in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and a consulting fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London. She is coauthor of "Nuclear Weapons Policy at the Crossroads" and editor of a forthcoming volume of the correspondence of Michael Quinlan. David Santoro is a senior fellow for nonproliferation and disarmament at Pacific Forum CSIS. He is the author of "Treating Weapons Proliferation: An Oncological Approach to the Spread of Nuclear! Biological! and Chemical Technology." Both editors worked on this volume as recipients of the 2010-11 Stanton Nuclear Security Fellowship at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Klappentext Provides in-depth, objective analysis of current nuclear disarmament dynamics. Examining the political, state-level factors that drive and stall progress, contributors highlight the challenges and opportunities faced by proponents of disarmament. Zusammenfassung Recent debates on nuclear weapons have focused overwhelmingly on nonproliferation dynamics. Slaying the Nuclear Dragon instead analyzes current nuclear disarmament dynamics. Examining the political, state-level factors that drive and stall progress, contributors highlight the challenges and opportunities faced by proponents of disarmament.

Product details

• Authors: Tanya (EDT)/ Santoro Ogilvie-White, Tanya Santoro Ogilvie-White, David Santoro
• Assisted by: Tanya Ogilvie-White (Editor), David Santoro (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2012
• EAN: 9780820336893
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3689-3
• No. of pages: 360
• Series: Studies in Security and Intern; Studies in Security and Intern; Studies in Security and International Affairs
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Contemporary history (1945 to 1989); Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science