Arms Control And Technological Innovation

Author : David Carlton,Carlo Schaerf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2024-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1032842083

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Arms Control and Technological Innovation by David Carlton,Carlo Schaerf Pdf

First published in 1977, Arms Control and Technological Innovation is primarily concerned with three subjects: the causes of the arms race; the consequences of the arms race to the world; and the control of the arms race. Written by experts in the field, it brings themes like new technologies and new weapon systems; new tactics to replace tactical nuclear weapons in Europe; the Anglo-American nuclear relationship; strategic arms limitation and military strategic concepts; and a new approach to strategic arms limitation and reduction. The book argues that the principal problem of the arms race, according to several lectures, is that weapons and delivery-systems technology have developed so much as to threaten the survival of civilization itself. The pace of technological change is proceeding more rapidly than ever before and there is serious doubt whether political institutions are adapting to this change in time to avoid devastating consequences to the world. This book is a must read for scholars and researchers of military and strategic studies, international relations, international politics and geopolitics.

Author : Wim Smit
Publisher : Vu University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : UOM:39015029447623

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Military Technological Innovation and Stability in a Changing World by Wim Smit Pdf

Author : Matthew Evangelista
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015009973317

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Innovation and the Arms Race by Matthew Evangelista Pdf

Evangelista provides a new framework for analyzing U.S. and Soviet innovations in weapons technology. In America, development is generated from the bottom up with scientists providing the initial impetus. Soviet weapons innovation occurs from the top down, as soviet leaders react to external forces, particularly American initiatives. With current weapons programs such as the Strategic Defense Initiative, the author sees opportunities for arms control. The United States must recognize that technological innovation is no guarantee of security. The Soviet Union must decide not to match American innovation. ISBN 0-8014-2165-9: $32.95.

Author : Donald J. Stukel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Arms control
ISBN : UOM:39015002317736

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Technology and Arms Control by Donald J. Stukel Pdf

Author : Jeffrey S. Lantis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804799843

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Arms and Influence by Jeffrey S. Lantis Pdf

Arms and Influence explores the complex relationship between technology, policymaking, and international norms. Modern technological innovations such as the atomic bomb, armed unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and advanced reconnaissance satellites have fostered debates about the boundaries of international norms and legitimate standards of behavior. These advances allow governments new opportunities for action around the world and have, in turn, prompted a broader effort to redefine international standards in areas such as self-defense, sovereignty, and preemptive strikes. In this book, Jeffrey S. Lantis develops a new theory of norm change and identifies its stages, including redefinition (involving domestic political deliberations) and constructive norm substitution (in multilateral institutions). He deftly takes some of the most controversial new developments in military technologies and embeds them in international relations theory. The case evidence he presents suggests that periods of change are underway across numerous different issue areas.

Author : Michael E. O'Hanlon
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815798946

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Technological Change and the Future of Warfare by Michael E. O'Hanlon Pdf

In light of the spectacular performance of American high-technology weapons in the 1991 Persian Gulf War, as well as the phenomenal pace of innovation in the modern computer industry, many defense analysts have posited that we are on the threshold of a revolution in military affairs (RMA). The issue has more than semantic importance. Many RMA proponents have begun to argue for major changes in Pentagon budgetary priorities and even in American foreign policy more generally to free up resources to pursue a transformed U.S. military—and to make sure that other countries do not take advantage of the purported RMA before we do. This book takes a more measured perspective. Beginning with a survey of various types of defense technologies, it argues that while important developments are indeed under way, most impressively in electronics and computer systems, the overall thrust of contemporary military innovation is probably not of a revolutionary magnitude. Some reorientation of U.S. defense dollars is appropriate, largely to improve homeland defense and to take advantage of the promise of modern electronics systems and precision-guided munitions. But radical shifts in U.S. security policy and Pentagon budget priorities appear unwarranted—especially if those shifts would come at the expense of American military engagement in overseas defense missions from Korea to Iraq to Bosnia.

Author : Kosta Tsipis
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B5134081

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New Technologies, Defense Policy, and Arms Control by Kosta Tsipis Pdf

Author : THomas W. Zarzecki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317794295

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Arms Diffusion by THomas W. Zarzecki Pdf

Weapons proliferation is one of the most pressing global concerns following the end of the Cold War. Despite the absence of an overarching superpower conflict, armaments and related technologies have continued to spread throughout the international system. This has been particularly true in areas like East Asia and the Middle East, where the traditional two party arms races are not readily apparent. This text addresses these concerns and shortcomings using data on fourteen specific military technological innovations that diffused throughout the international system from 1960 to 1997.

Author : Neil Cooper,David Mutimer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317995364

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Reconceptualising Arms Control by Neil Cooper,David Mutimer Pdf

The theory and practice of arms control seemed to have its heyday during the height of the Cold War, with its focus on the East-West conflict and nuclear arms. In the past twenty years, both arms technologies and various practices aimed at their control have continued to develop, but scholarly thinking has not kept up. This volume seeks to redress this scholarly neglect of the range of issues associated with the control of the means of violence, by asking the question: what does arms control mean in the 21st Century? In asking this question, the volume examines issues surrounding sovereignty, geopolitics, nuclear disarmament, securitization of space, technological developments, human rights, the clearance of landmines, the regulation of small arms and the control of the black market for arms and nuclear secrets. The book discusses terrorism with reference to the case of the suicide attacks in Beirut in 1983 and how the Obama administration is orientating its posture on nuclear arms. This book was published as a special issue of Contemporary Security Policy.

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Strategy
ISBN : UCR:31210014634792

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Weapons for Strategic Effect by Colin S. Gray Pdf

Author : David W. Kearn
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739189443

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Great Power Security Cooperation by David W. Kearn Pdf

This book explains the conditions under which great powers are likely to cooperate to improve their security by engaging in qualitative arms control. In agreeing to limit or proscribe certain classes of weapons, states will constrain their military capabilities and therefore decrease the threat they pose to potential adversaries. Focusing on the expected military impact of technological change and the capacity of states to confidently monitor the activities of its negotiating partners, it may be possible to forge lasting agreements that improves the security of the participating states. However, at other times, the nature technological change may force states to engage in competitive behavior, precluding cooperation and increasing the probability of conflict. Examining a diverse set of cases, including the Washington Naval Conference, The World Disarmament Conference at Geneva, the Baruch Plan for the International Control of Atomic Energy, and the SALT I Accords (including the ABM Treaty), this volume presents a persuasive, comprehensive and interesting contribution to the literature on arms racing and arms control, and should be of interest to students of international relations theory and security studies. By presenting a theoretical-informed model that explicitly links the security strategies of states to their choices about development and deployment of new weapons and, consequently, their willingness to engage in arms control cooperation, this book provides an important refinement upon existing theoretical and historical approaches.

Author : Wolfram F Hanrieder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000314274

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Technology, Strategy, And Arms Control by Wolfram F Hanrieder Pdf

Focusing on the most urgent issues of arms control, this collection of essays discusses the East-West military balance, the nature of U.S.-Soviet relations, the political dynamics of developments in weapons technology, the problems that conflicting national security policies pose for the management of the Western alliance, the influence of U.S. dom

Author : Christoph Bertram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Arms control
ISBN : 0860790207

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Arms Control and Technological Change by Christoph Bertram Pdf

Author : Rebecca K.C. Hersman,Heather Williams,Suzanne Claeys
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 69 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781538140529

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Integrated Arms Control in an Era of Strategic Competition by Rebecca K.C. Hersman,Heather Williams,Suzanne Claeys Pdf

Can contemporary arms control keep pace with the rapid rate of change in both geopolitics and technology? While the challenges to future arms control point to a rocky road ahead, measures that build confidence, reduce miscalculation, enhance transparency, restrain costly and dangerous military competition, and offer useful mechanisms and venues for addressing sources of conflict will be of increasing value. For arms control tools to succeed, however, they must be adapted to the current security environment, account for rapidly evolving technological and informational factors, and consider alternative structures, modalities, and participation models. Indeed, now is the time for a recoupling of arms control with deterrence in a way that recognizes these new realities. Now is the time for integrated arms control that enhances stability, embraces plurality, and reinforces resiliency. This CSIS study examines the implication and prospects for the future of arms control in a highly competitive security environment in which challenges from advanced technologies and diminished state control over processes of verification become increasingly prominent features, even as the scope and modalities of arms control grow more complex and multifaceted. The report offers a reexamination of the broad contours of arms control and its role in managing competitive security risks and challenges and the implications for U.S. policymakers, academics, and strategic thinkers engaged in U.S. nuclear policy.

Author : Irmgard Niemeyer,Mona Dreicer,Gotthard Stein
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-12
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030295370

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Nuclear Non-proliferation and Arms Control Verification by Irmgard Niemeyer,Mona Dreicer,Gotthard Stein Pdf

This book strives to take stock of current achievements and existing challenges in nuclear verification, identify the available information and gaps that can act as drivers for exploring new approaches to verification strategies and technologies. With the practical application of the systems concept to nuclear disarmament scenarios and other, non-nuclear verification fields, it investigates, where greater transparency and confidence could be achieved in pursuit of new national or international nonproliferation and arms reduction efforts. A final discussion looks at how, in the absence of formal government-to-government negotiations, experts can take practical steps to advance the technical development of these concepts.