Global Security Beyond the Millennium offers American and Russian perspectives on the evolution of the US-Russian post-Cold War security relationship, obstacles and opportunities in bilateral cooperation and critical security challenges for the two countries on the threshold of the twenty-first century. American and Russian contributors discuss prospects for managing a range of issues encompassing both traditional military aspects of security, as well as in-depth exploration of the broader non-military dimensions of international security. The book is designed to challenge readers to think...

Containing the Atom is a comprehensive study of the theory and practice of international nuclear negotiations.

This book examines the costs and benefits of ending the fighting in a range of conflicts, and probes the reasons why negotiators provide, or fail to provide, resolutions that go beyond just 'stopping the shooting.' What is the desired and achievable mix between negotiation strategies that look backward to end current hostilities and those that look ahead to prevent their recurrence? To answer that question, a wide range of case studies is marshaled to explore relevant peacemaking situations, from the end of the Thirty Years' War and the Napoleonic Wars, to more recent settlements of the late...

The first edition of International Negotiation became a best-selling classic in the field of global conflict resolution. This second edition has been substantially revised and updated to meet the challenges of today's complex international community. Developed under the direction of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, this important resource contains contributions from some of the world's leading experts in international negotiation, representing a wide range of nations and disciplines. They offer a synthesis of contemporary negotiation theory, perspectives for...

In this important work, Russian scholar Kremenyuk examines the state of political affairs in the former Soviet Union. As Russia moves fitfully toward democracy and away from its totalitarian past, sharp divisions--contemporary and historical--have appeared, within and around the new nation-state. These conflicts have already blocked some of the movement toward democracy. And as the contending parties, the president, and the parliament in the present Russian government struggle for power, that political struggle increases the likelihood of authoritarian solutions.