Security and Arms Control Vol. I & II (1989) By Edward A Kolodziej and Patrick M. Morgan
 
This two-volume comprehensive guide is organized around the assumption that national and international security and arms control studies are interdisciplinary in nature.
 
Volume 1 is divided into four parts. The first identifies those characteristics of the international system that condition the use of or the threat to use force. It also explores those aspects of the system that prompt the need for ways to control violence and to discipline it to the national purpose. Twelve functions of national strategic policy are covered in parts two and three. A final section reviews ways that might be used to go beyond violence or threats in coping with human conflict. Through the topics selected for inclusion, the guide attempts to define the scope of security and arms control studies as a serious field of systematic inquiry. It identifies major problems, key concepts, methods, disciplinary approaches, intellectual styles, and data sources associated with the principal subfields of the discipline. It critically reviews and evaluates the most important literature associated with each subfield to assist more in-depth analysis by researchers and policymakers.
 
Security and Arms Control, Volume 2 is organized by sub-field. First, contending contemporary perspectives on the international system itself as the source of conflict and war are presented. The various facets of nuclear deterrence, including implications for the possible use of nuclear weapons, follow. The focus then shifts to conventional military power in the system, including arms transfers. The incidence of subconventional or low-intensity conflicts, including the practice of and possible responses to terrorism, is analyzed. The book concludes with strategic arms control, nuclear proliferation, and the study of crisis decision making. Security and Arms Control, Volume 2 can be used as a text as well as serving as a valuable guide to the study of international and national security and arms control. Interested students and policy makers will find valuable material for their studies and research.
 
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