ilość książek w kategorii: 2333
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Russian Arms Transfers to East Asia in the 1990s
ISBN: 9780198295761 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The transfer of arms and military technology is one of the main instruments of Russia's security strategy in East Asia. This research report documents Russia's arms exports to these countries and examines the motivations behind its policies and decisions.
The transfer of arms and military technology is one of the main instruments of Russia's security strategy in East Asia. This research report documents...
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655,89 |
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Weapons, Culture, and Self-Interest: Soviet Defense Managers in the New Russia
ISBN: 9780231110785 / Angielski / Twarda / 214 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do powerful people react to revolutionary circumstances? How quickly and effectively do elites adapt to, and shape, the structures of new social and political systems? Zisk offers a detailed examination of the unexpected ways Russian defense industrialists have acted in the new market economy. Bridging the gap between political economy and international security studies, Zisk plunges into the debate of whether rational self-interest or broader cultural norms explain behaviour best. She focuses on three institutions that structured the Russian defense manager's working life in the 1992-95...
How do powerful people react to revolutionary circumstances? How quickly and effectively do elites adapt to, and shape, the structures of new social a...
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489,77 |
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The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia
ISBN: 9781409426257 / Angielski / Twarda / 278 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An important and critical re-evaluation of South Asia's post-tests nuclear politics, in contrast to other books, this volume emphasises the political dimension of South Asia's nuclear weapons, explains how the bombs are used as politico-strategic assets rather than pure battlefield weapons and how India and Pakistan utilise them for politico-strategic purposes in an extremely complex and competitive South Asian strategic landscape. Written by a group of perceptive observers of South Asia, this volume evaluates the current state of Indo-Pakistani nuclear deterrents, the challenges that the two...
An important and critical re-evaluation of South Asia's post-tests nuclear politics, in contrast to other books, this volume emphasises the political ...
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783,64 |
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Disarmament Terminology: In English, German, French, Spanish, Russian
ISBN: 9783110088588 / Angielski / Twarda / 655 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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537,05 |
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Multilateralization of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle: A Long Road Ahead
ISBN: 9789290452010 / Angielski / Miękka / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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83,21 |
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The Arms Race in Asia: Trends, Causes and Implications
ISBN: 9780415625241 / Angielski / Twarda / 246 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text is a systematic examination of the emerging arms race in Asia. The global trade in arms is to a large degree underpinned by the strong demand for arms in Asia and the Middle East, the two largest arms export markets in the world.
This text is a systematic examination of the emerging arms race in Asia. The global trade in arms is to a large degree underpinned by the strong deman...
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759,15 |
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Divert!: Numec, Zalman Shapiro and the Diversion of Us Weapons Grade Uranium Into the Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program
ISBN: 9780982775707 / Angielski / Miękka / 316 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on an exhaustive review of formerly classified government documents, as well as previously unexplored corporate filings, office diaries, and unguarded interviews, Smith has written a riveting story of the 1960s diversion of U.S. weapons-grade nuclear material from an Israeli front company in Pennsylvania into the clandestine Israeli atomic weapons program.
Based on an exhaustive review of formerly classified government documents, as well as previously unexplored corporate filings, office diaries, and ung...
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76,88 |
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Who Wins?
ISBN: 9780199878338 / Angielski / Twarda / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite their immense war-fighting capacity, the five most powerful states in the international system have failed to attain their primary political objective in almost 40% of their military operations against weak state and non-state targets since 1945. Why are states with tremendous military might so often unable to attain their objectives when they use force against weaker adversaries? More broadly, under what conditions can states use military force to attain their political objectives and what conditions limit the utility of military force as a policy instrument? Can we predict the...
Despite their immense war-fighting capacity, the five most powerful states in the international system have failed to attain their primary political o...
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563,09 |
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Who Wins?: Predicting Strategic Success and Failure in Armed Conflict
ISBN: 9780199878352 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Despite their immense war-fighting capacity, the five most powerful states in the international system have failed to attain their primary political objective in almost 40% of their military operations against weak state and non-state targets since 1945. Why are states with tremendous military might so often unable to attain their objectives when they use force against weaker adversaries? More broadly, under what conditions can states use military force to attain their political objectives and what conditions limit the utility of military force as a policy instrument? Can we predict the...
Despite their immense war-fighting capacity, the five most powerful states in the international system have failed to attain their primary political o...
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217,37 |
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Covenants Without the Sword: Public Opinion and British Defence Policy 1931-1935
ISBN: 9781554585137 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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137,09 |
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European Union Sanctions and Foreign Policy: When and Why Do They Work?
ISBN: 9780415502740 / Angielski / Miękka Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the general public. This book examines sanctions as a political tool of influence and evaluates the efficacy of sanctions imposed by the EU against third countries and their ability to bring about the desired outcome. While the principal sanctions activity of the EU takes place under the Common Foreign and Security Policy, the author also considers the suspension of development aid under the ACP-EU Partnership Agreement, the withdrawal of trade privileges...
Sanctions are an important tool within the foreign policy of the European Union, which have until now remained obscure to both scholars and the genera...
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274,23 |
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The United Nations Disarmament Yearbook: (Part I)
ISBN: 9789211422849 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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186,11 |
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Indo-Us Nuclear Deal: Seeking Synergy in Bilateralism
ISBN: 9780415625791 / Angielski / Twarda / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book interrogates the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement from its inception in July 2005 to its conclusion in the latter part of 2008 through 12 articles, each of which focuses on different aspects of the deal. They discuss the factors that facilitated the deal, the roadblocks that were encountered, and the implications of the deal for the future of India's foreign policy, its energy security and the international non-proliferation regime. Together, they address the internal political dynamics in India and the United States in order to present perspectives of both countries.
This book interrogates the Indo-US civil nuclear agreement from its inception in July 2005 to its conclusion in the latter part of 2008 through 12 art...
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734,66 |
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Small Arms Survey 2012: Moving Targets
ISBN: 9780521197144 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Highlights emerging trends and concerns regarding armed violence and small arms proliferation as well as related policies and programming.
Highlights emerging trends and concerns regarding armed violence and small arms proliferation as well as related policies and programming.
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312,53 |
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Conversion: Opportunities for Development and Environment
ISBN: 9783642957031 / Angielski / Miękka / 461 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. CONVERSION - in the meantime the term for the process of converting arms industry into industrial production of non-military goods - is becoming a key subject in the building of the eastern economies. These Proceedings contain all important presentations of an international Conference in Dortmund in 1992. Speakers were well known experts from economy, politics, science and military, thus this book gives an up-to-date, excellent overview.
CONVERSION - in the meantime the term for the process of converting arms industry into industrial production of non-military goods - is becoming a key...
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402,53 |
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Accidental Nuclear War: Proceedings of the Eighteenth Pugwash Workshop on Nuclear Forces
ISBN: 9780888666345 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book constitutes the Proceedings of a meeting held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 18-20 July 1989, which was the eighteenth in a series of Workshops on Nuclear Forces held in the framework of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. This particular series of Workshops was initiated in January 1980, that is, immediately after the NATO double-track decision of December 1979 that in the short run led to the deployment in Europe of new US nuclear-armed missiles ground launched cruise missiles and medium-range ballistic missiles (Pershing II) but that was also instrumental in... This book constitutes the Proceedings of a meeting held in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 18-20 July 1989, which was the eighteenth in a series of Workshops... |
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52,03 |
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Arms Control Law
ISBN: 9780754629535 / Angielski / Twarda / 632 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume features a selection of the best scholarship on international law as it is relevant to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The essays consider the nonproliferation legal regime as a normative system and offer a more discrete consideration of international law in each weapons of mass destruction technology area: nuclear weapons proliferation; chemical and biological weapons proliferation; and delivery systems proliferation. In addition, the essays consider the closely related questions of the role, authority and track record of the UN Security Council in monitoring,...
This volume features a selection of the best scholarship on international law as it is relevant to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. T...
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1675,54 |
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Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons
ISBN: 9780544103252 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons is accessible, short and breathless. It has the tone of a TED talk: an avid speaker bursting with one big idea and eighteen minutes to hold your attention. New York Times Five Myths About Nuclear Weapons is accessible, short and breathless. It has the tone of a TED talk: an avid speaker bursting with one big ... |
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73,17 |
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The Nuclear Renaissance and International Security
ISBN: 9780804784177 / Angielski / Twarda / 376 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Interest in nuclear energy has surged in recent years, yet there are risks that accompany the global diffusion of nuclear power--especially the possibility that the spread of nuclear energy will facilitate nuclear weapons proliferation. In this book, leading experts analyze the tradeoffs associated with nuclear energy and put the nuclear renaissance in historical context, evaluating both the causes and the strategic effects of nuclear energy development. They probe critical issues relating to the nuclear renaissance, including if and how peaceful nuclear programs contribute to nuclear weapons...
Interest in nuclear energy has surged in recent years, yet there are risks that accompany the global diffusion of nuclear power--especially the possib...
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308,55 |
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Dismantling the Iraqi Nuclear Programme: The Inspections of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 1991-1998
ISBN: 9780415828390 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is an authoritative account of the nuclear weapons inspections regime in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. Without a proper understanding of those years, the 2003 US invasion of Iraq after a futile WMD search remain unintelligible. In the 1990s, after adapting to a completely new kind of intrusive inspections with unprecedented access rights, the IAEA discovered and dismantled Iraq s clandestine nuclear weapons program and put in place an efficient monitoring system which could have contained Saddam Hussein s attempts to reconstitute his nuclear programs had he ever tried to. However,... This book is an authoritative account of the nuclear weapons inspections regime in Iraq from 1991 to 1998. Without a proper understanding of tho... |
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734,66 |