Title: Weapons proliferation and world order :
Authors: Roberts, Brad.
Date: 1996
Publisher: Kluwer Law International,
Physical description: vii, 398 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: U
Contents: I. Proliferation and the End of the Cold War -- The Emergence of the Nonproliferation Problem -- The Nuclear Nonproliferation Model -- Proliferation and the 1990s -- Addressing the Epistemological Problem -- II. The New Technical Features of Proliferation -- Unconventional Weapons -- Missile Delivery Systems -- Conventional Warfare Systems -- Defense Industrial Base -- The Larger Picture -- III. The Politics and Economics of Proliferation -- The Gloomy Prognosis -- An Alternative Viewpoint -- IV. Proliferation's Implications for Geopolitics in the Post-Cold War Era -- The Cold War-Vintage Debate About Proliferation -- Proliferation and Stability After the Cold War -- Implications for the Developed World -- A World Order Issue -- V. Policy and Strategy: Beyond Nonproliferation -- The Tasks of Policy -- The Instruments of Policy -- Formalizing Restraint: The New Arms Control Agenda -- Reassurance and Deterrence: The Future of Security Policy -- Diplomacy: The Linchpin -- An Assessment of Progress to 1995 -- Prospects -- VI. Conclusion.
Subject headings (LCSH): Arms race.; Security, International.; World politics--1989-