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"This book is an international history of the foundation of modern arms control, highlighting the fact that the instrument is varied, resilient, successful, and enduring. The narrative begins after the Napoleonic wars when newly arisen peace movements focused on arbitration as a path to "ending the war system." It moves on to the international community's embrace of "total and complete disarmament" and then to its acceptance of more limited measures by 1968, including the agreements that remain in force today. The book connects the past to the present of multiple negotiations, successful and failed, and underlines how the peace movement increasingly influenced the national policy of the major Western powers, especially the United States. It also highlights the increasing diversification of arms control players, including women and people of color as well as the countries they represented. Based on original research in multinational records and the latest scholarship, the book illustrates the reasons multilateral arms control remains a key instrument of international relations. The chapters are organized both chronologically and thematically, with the result that they cover different amounts of time in order to encompass a given issue and to capture the development of particular threads. The main narrative evolves into a decades-long quest for a global treaty on "general and complete disarmament," which otherwise paces the book and shapes its chapters. This book will be of much interest to students of arms control, global governance, peace studies and International Relations"--

Global Rogues and Regional Orders examines the relationship between nuclear proliferation and regional order in East Asia and the Middle East, looking at what factors shape the perceptions and responses of relevant regional actors to North Korea and Iran, why some of these regional actors cooperate with the United States while others do not, and the consequences of shifting relations among these countries.

"For some observers, nuclear arms control is either a relic of the cold war, or a utopian dream about a denuclearized planet decades in the future. But, as Brookings scholars Steven Pifer and Michael O'Hanlon argue in The Opportunity, arms control can address some key security challenges facing Washington today and enhance both American and global security. Pifer and O'Hanlon make a compelling case for further arms control measures-to reduce the nuclear threat to the United States and its allies, to strengthen strategic stability, to promote greater transparency regarding secretive nuclear arsenals, to create the possibility for significant defense budget savings, to bolster American credibility in the fight to curb nuclear proliferation, and to build a stronger and more sustainable U.S.-Russia relationship. President Obama gave priority to nuclear arms control early in his first term and, by all accounts, would like to be transformational on these questions. Can there be another major U.S.-Russia arms treaty? Can the tactical and surplus strategic nuclear warheads that have so far escaped controls be brought into such a framework? Can a modus vivendi be reached between the two countries on missile defense? And what of multilateral accords on nuclear testing and production of fissile materials for nuclear weapons? Pifer and O'Hanlon concisely frame the issues, the background, and the choices facing the president; provide practical policy recommendations, and put it all in clear and readable prose that will be easily understood by the layman"--Provided by publisher

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: A Framework for Analyzing the Evolution of China's Nonproliferation Behavior -- 2 A Gradual Engagement: China and Nuclear Nonproliferation -- 3 Reluctant Participant: China, Missile Nonproliferation, and the Missile Technology Control Regime -- 4 Negative Feedback Assessing the Impact if US. Missile Difense on Chinese Arms-Control and Nonproliferation Policies -- 5 A Cultural Evolution: The Development of China's Arms-Control and Nonproliferation Community -- 6 Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS, TABLES, AND PHOTOGRAPHS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- EXPLANATORY NOTES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- PART 1: RULED BY RUSSIA, SCARRED BY NUCLEAR TESTS: KAZAKHSTAN UNDER THE RUSSIAN SHADOW -- PROLOGUE -- CHAPTER 1 THE STEPPE -- CHAPTER 2 FORTY YEARS OF NUCLEAR TESTS -- CHAPTER 3 THE HUMAN TOLL -- CHAPTER 4 THE NATION RISES -- CHAPTER 5 THE SWAN SONG OF THE SOVIET UNION -- PART 2: FREEDOM DAWNS, BUT THE ARSENAL REMAINS -- CHAPTER 6 FEARS IN WASHINGTON AND ALMA-ATA -- CHAPTER 7 A TEMPORARY NUCLEAR POWER -- CHAPTER 8 THE FINAL PUSH -- CHAPTER 9 PROJECT SAPPHIRE AND THE NUNN-LUGAR COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION PROGRAM -- CHAPTER 10 FAREWELL TO BOMBS -- EPILOGUE REIMAGINING THE ATOMIC STEPPE -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

A review essay on a book by Heikki Patomaki, The Political Economy of Global Security: War, Future Crises and Changes in Global Governance (London & New York: Routledge, 2008).

This book, first published in 1983, examines the role that arms control has to play, alongside defence and deterrence, in stabilising East-West relations and reducing tensions during the Cold War. Arms control agreements were designed in the attempt to achieve parity between the nuclear forces of the superpowers, without making war more likely. A danger of confrontation between the USSR and the USA came from their involvement in Third World conflicts, and this arena is also discussed. The diplomatic approaches of the Soviet Union, the Third World and the West, and their aims in arms control, are also analysed.