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Arms control for the third nuclear age: between disarmament and Armageddon
A reappraisal of classic arms control theory that advocates for reprioritizing deterrence over disarmament in a new era of nuclear multipolarity. The United States faces a new era of nuclear arms racing for which it is conceptually unprepared. Great power nuclear competition is seemingly returning with a vengeance as the post-Cold War international order morphs into something more uncertain, complicated, and dangerous. In this unstable third nuclear age, legacy nonproliferation and disarmament instruments designed for outmoded conditions are ill-equipped to tame the complex dynamics of a multipolar nuclear arms race centered on China, Russia, and the United States. International relations scholar David A. Cooper proposes relearning, reviving, and adapting classic arms control theory and negotiating practices to steer the world away from threatening and destabilizing nuclear arms races. He surveys the history of nuclear arms control efforts, revisits strategic theory's view of nuclear competition dynamics, and interviews US nuclear policy practitioners about both the past and the emerging era. To prepare for this third nuclear age, Cooper recommends adapting the Cold War's classical paradigm of adversarial arms control for the contemporary landscape. Rather than prioritizing disarmament to eliminate nuclear weapons, this neoclassical approach would pursue pragmatic agreements to stabilize deterrence relationships among today's nuclear rivals. Drawing on an extensive theoretical and practical study of the Cold War and its aftermath, Cooper distills relevant lessons that could inform the United States' long-term efforts to navigate the unprecedented dangers of nuclear multipolarity. Diverging from other recent books on the topic, Arms Control for the Third Nuclear Age provides analysts with a more hard-nosed strategic approach. In this very different era of great power rivalry, this book will be a must-read for scholars, students, and practitioners of nuclear arms control.
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Leadership risk: a guide for private equity and strategic investors
This book is a practical guide for private equity investors. It sets out a framework for understanding, assessing and managing the risks associated with senior management during the due diligence process of an acquisition. This provides an essential input into the wider due diligence review and a sound basis for managing the investment after the deal has been done so as to maximise the chances of a successful exit. The book comes at a time of significant growth in the field of private equity. In the UK over 3 million people (around 18% of all private sector employees) now work for private equi.
Editorial for 2024 SARS 54(4)
In: South African review of sociology: journal of the South African Sociological Association, Band 54, Heft 4, S. 415-416
ISSN: 2072-1978
Editorial
In: South African review of sociology: journal of the South African Sociological Association, Band 53, Heft 2, S. 125-129
ISSN: 2072-1978
Editorial
In: South African review of sociology: journal of the South African Sociological Association, Band 53, Heft 1, S. 1-4
ISSN: 2072-1978
Transformations of Race and Class in South Africa: Discussion Article of Book on Urban Inequality: Theory, Evidence and Method in Johannesburg by Owen Crankshaw
In: South African review of sociology: journal of the South African Sociological Association, Band 53, Heft 1, S. 104-123
ISSN: 2072-1978
Has the forgotten "stability-instability paradox" belatedly reared its ugly head in Ukraine?
In: Orbis: FPRI's journal of world affairs, Band 67, Heft 1, S. 103-113
ISSN: 0030-4387
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EDITORIAL – by David Cooper, member of new reconstituted 5-Editorial Collective
In: South African review of sociology: journal of the South African Sociological Association, Band 52, Heft 3, S. 1-2
ISSN: 2072-1978
Editorial—by David Cooper, Member of new 3-Editorial Collective
In: South African review of sociology: journal of the South African Sociological Association, Band 52, Heft 1, S. 1-3
ISSN: 2072-1978
Grounding Rights
In: Social analysis: journal of cultural and social practice, Band 62, Heft 3, S. 128-148
ISSN: 1558-5727
Since the Sandinistas returned to power in Nicaragua in 2007, ideas about rights have been central to the governing party's populist project. The rights in question are understood to require the production of 'organized' citizens who become integrated into the mechanisms of popular governance. But for rural Sandinistas who participated in the revolutionary agrarian reform of the 1980s, rights are about land. For some, realizing rights has required disentangling themselves from local organs of organized life, resulting in their exclusion from the government's populist model of rights. Contending ideas about how to legitimately ground the rights that result—and the effort of these excluded Sandinistas to make revolutionary 'struggle' the basis of entitlements— trouble a standard anthropological model that views abstract rights as subsequently particularized in practice.