Global Peace and Security: Trends and Challenges

ISBN-13: 9780367012052 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 236 str.

Wolfram F Hanrieder

Opis

Focusing on the social, economic, and political structures of the postwar global order, this collection of essays discusses the search for a new international economic order, the transformation of the nation-state and the international balance of power, the technological and strategic dimensions of the nuclear age, East-West trade and technology tr

Spis treści

Preface -- Learning Peace -- Transition to Peace and Justice: The Challenge of Transcendence Without Utopia -- Japan and the Future Trajectory of the World-System: Lessons from History? -- On the Rise of the Fourth World -- The Transatlantic Community and West European Integration: The Dynamics of Change -- The Soviet Union and World Order -- Promoting Technology Trade: Strategies for Suppliers and Recipients -- Nuclear Fission: Reaction to the Discovery in 1939 -- The SDI or Star Wars? An Owlish Perspective -- Ballistic Missile Defense and NATO

O autorze

Wolfram F. Hanrieder is professor of political science at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is editor of Technology, Strategy, and Arms Control (Westview, 1986).