Icarus Restrained: An Intellectual History Of Nuclear Arms Control, 1945-1960
Autor Jennifer Simsen Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 apr 2019
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780367013233
ISBN-10: 0367013231
Pagini: 274
Dimensiuni: 140 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0367013231
Pagini: 274
Dimensiuni: 140 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
Preface -- Delimiting the Approach -- Introduction -- The Cambridge Approach -- Arms Control as Political Instrument -- The Age of Atomic Innocence -- The Open World: Arms Control as an Instrument for Achieving Long-Term Political Stability -- Arms Control as Security Instrument -- From the Age of Innocence to the Balance of Terror: Nuclear Arms Control Thought Comes of Age -- Arms Control Theorists of the 1950s -- The Cambridge Approach Revisited and Reviewed
Notă biografică
Jennifer E. Simsreceived her B.A. from Oberlin College in June 1975 with a major in Government. In May 1978 she completed her M.A. at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) with concentrations in the fields of European Politics, American Foreign Policy, and International Economics. In June 1985 she completed the Ph.D. program in American Foreign Policy, also at SAIS. Graduate work was supported by scholarships from the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow, 1979) and from the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Sims has worked with the Istituto per gli Studi di Politica lnternazionale (ISPI) in Rome, Italy, and as a research associate at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (DSS) in London. She is currently American Coordinator of the multinational Nuclear History Program at the University of Maryland.
Descriere
The author cites that this is a study of the nature and origins of the dominant post-war approach to strategic nuclear arms control in an attempt to clarify it, distinguish it from others, and begin to explain the qualities which made it so attractive and eventually so widely accepted.