Arms Race Theory

Author : Craig Etcheson
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : UCAL:B5118554

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Arms Race Theory by Craig Etcheson Pdf

For most of the twentieth century, social scientists have attempted to understand the causes of military competition. From this struggle has evolved the Richardson Tradition of Arms Race Analysis, a distinct body of scientific literature that uses a variety of mathematical techniques and theoretical ideas to solve the puzzle of what drives military interaction among nations. Etcheson explores this intellectual journey and projects the paths along which the Richardson Tradition must go if it is to obtain its objective: understanding and control of potentially unnecessary organized social violence. Arms Race Theory examines thoroughly the literature of the Richardson Tradition, from the writings of Lewis Fry Richardson through the most recent attempts of his students to resolve the fundamental questions about interaction in arms races. Etcheson documents the application of the procedures of positive physical science to social problems and identifies the reasons why Richardson and his students have been frustrated in their efforts. According to the author, students of the Richardson Tradition adhere to an atomistic and reductionist perspective that denies the relevance of human values and intentions. He focuses on the idea of strategy as a gateway to an understanding of the social causes of arms accumulation. Etcheson prepares the way for a new phase in the Richardson Tradition by identifying new theoretical foci and methodological techniques. His analysis, coupled with the most comprehensive bibliography of the literature of the Richardson Tradition currently available, is a significant contribution to the growing body of scholarship in peace research and international relations theory.

Author : Martin C. McGuire
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674796659

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Secrecy and the Arms Race by Martin C. McGuire Pdf

Martin McGuire has written for the specialist and the concerned layman a highly original and valuable contribution to our understanding of the arms race, based upon economic theory in general and the theory of economic duopoly in particular. He calls attention to the fact that when two world powers face each other with massive allocations of resources for arms, and when each regards the other as the major, if not the sole, threat to its own security, the question of accurate information about the strength and intentions of the adversary arises for each side in many and various ways. As a result, this study is a pioneering, analytic effort to approach the value of keeping secrets from or of obtaining information about an enemy. The author is concerned with such questions as: what is the loss in being only 50 percent confident rather than certain that the adversary doesn't have more X missiles or missiles of yield W megatons or of accuracy C thousand feet? Should one insist on being 95 percent sure when bargaining for arms control? How can a side compensate for its uncertainty most efficiently? An understanding of these problems can not only increase our security; it may help as well to contain or control the entire two-sided race.

Author : Thomas Mahnken,Joseph Maiolo,David Stevenson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191054204

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Arms Races in International Politics by Thomas Mahnken,Joseph Maiolo,David Stevenson Pdf

This volume provides the first comprehensive history of the arms racing phenomenon in modern international politics, drawing both on theoretical approaches and on the latest historical research. Written by an international team of specialists, it is divided into four sections: before 1914; the inter-war years; the Cold War; and extra-European and post-Cold War arms races. Twelve case studies examine land and naval armaments before the First World War; air, land, and naval competition during the 1920s and 1930s; and nuclear as well as conventional weapons since 1945. Armaments policies are placed within the context of technological development, international politics and diplomacy, and social politics and economics. An extended general introduction and conclusion and introductions to each section provide coherence between the specialized chapters and draw out wider implications for policymakers and for political scientists. Arms Races in International Politics addresses two key questions: what causes arms races, and what is the connection between arms races and the outbreak of wars?

Author : Nils Petter Gleditsch
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783030315894

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Lewis Fry Richardson: His Intellectual Legacy and Influence in the Social Sciences by Nils Petter Gleditsch Pdf

This is an open access book. Lewis F Richardson (1981-1953), a physicist by training, was a pioneer in meteorology and peace research and remains a towering presence in both fields. This edited volume reviews his work and assesses its influence in the social sciences, notably his work on arms races and their consequences, mathematical models, the size distribution of wars, and geographical features of conflict. It contains brief bibliographies of his main publications and of articles and books written about Richardson and his work and discusses his continuing influence in peace research and international relations as well as his attitude to the ethical responsibilities of a scientist. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars. This book includes 11 chapters written by Nils Petter Gleditsch, Dina A Zinnes, Ron Smith, Paul F Diehl, Kelly Kadera, Mark Crescenzi, Michael D Ward, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, Nils B Weidmann, Jürgen Scheffran, Niall MacKay, Aaron Clauset, Michael Spagat and Stijn van Weezel. Lewis F Richardson occupied an important position in two academic fields as different as meteorology and peace research, with academic prizes awarded in both disciplines. In peace research, he pioneered the use of mathematical models and the meticulous compilation of databases for empirical research. As a quaker and pacifist, he refused to work in preparations for war, paid a heavy prize in terms of his career, and (at least in the social sciences) was fully recognized as a pioneering scholar only posthumously with the publication of two major books. Lewis Fry Richardson is one of the 20th century’s greatest but least appreciated thinkers—a creative physicist, psychologist, meteorologist, applied mathematician, historian, pacifist, statistician, and witty stylist. If you’ve heard of weather prediction, chaos, fractals, cliometrics, peace science, big data, thick tails, or black swans, then you have benefited from Richardson’s prescience in bringing unruly phenomena into the ambit of scientific understanding. Richardson’s ideas continue to be relevant today, and this collection is a superb retrospective on this brilliant and lovable man. Steven Pinker, Johnstone Professor, Harvard University, and the author of The Better Angels of Our Nature and Enlightenment Now

Author : Nils Petter Gleditsch,Olav Njølstad
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1990-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015016950167

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Arms Races by Nils Petter Gleditsch,Olav Njølstad Pdf

A long tradition of theoretical and empirical work has been devoted to the question of the driving forces in the arms race since the 1960s. This book takes up the internal factors of arms dynamics, such as bureaucratic politics, interservice rivalry, and the military-industrial complex, as well as external factors such as interactive arms dynamics between the two superpowers. It also deals with the question of technological determinism - the ideas that what is technically possible will be done as opposed to the idea that `politics is in command'. Finally, factors in the international system affecting arms races are also examined, such as long economic waves and power transitions.

Author : Martin C. McGuire
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Armaments
ISBN : OCLC:669930710

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Secrecy and the Arms Race : a Theory of the Accumulation of Strategic Weapons and how Secrecy Affects it by Martin C. McGuire Pdf

Author : Matthew Evangelista
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 55,7 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 : Bhupendra Jasani
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000263114

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Outer Space - A New Dimension of the Arms Race by Bhupendra Jasani Pdf

This book, first published in 1982, analyses the prospects of the Cold War superpowers arms race spilling into outer space. A SIPRI-organized symposium in 1981 discussed the consequences of the militarization of outer space, as well as further arms control and disarmament measures. This book presents the findings of 20 eminent scientists, lawyers and diplomats from 12 different countries.

Author : Walter Isard,Christine Smith,Charles H. Anderton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521368421

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Arms Races, Arms Control, and Conflict Analysis by Walter Isard,Christine Smith,Charles H. Anderton Pdf

A general introduction to the principles of conflict analysis demonstrates how a broad range of studies can be unified to analyze conflict and further the interdisciplinary study of peace science.

Author : Brendan Rittenhouse Green
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108489867

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The Revolution that Failed by Brendan Rittenhouse Green Pdf

A theoretical analysis and historical investigation of the Cold War nuclear arms race that challenges the nuclear revolution.

Author : Fred Solomon,Robert Q. Marston,Lewis Thomas,Steering Committee for the Symposium on the Medical Implications of Nuclear War,Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1986-01-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0309078660

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The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Fred Solomon,Robert Q. Marston,Lewis Thomas,Steering Committee for the Symposium on the Medical Implications of Nuclear War,Institute of Medicine Pdf

Written by world-renowned scientists, this volume portrays the possible direct and indirect devastation of human health from a nuclear attack. The most comprehensive work yet produced on this subject, The Medical Implications of Nuclear War includes an overview of the potential environmental and physical effects of nuclear bombardment, describes the problems of choosing who among the injured would get the scarce medical care available, addresses the nuclear arms race from a psychosocial perspective, and reviews the medical needs--in contrast to the medical resources likely to be available--after a nuclear attack. "It should serve as the definitive statement on the consequences of nuclear war."--Arms Control Today

Author : David Carlton,Carlo Schaerf
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000198980

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The Dynamics of the Arms Race by David Carlton,Carlo Schaerf Pdf

The nuclear arms race had dominated international politics for the two decades prior to publication. Originally published in 1975, this symposium examines the dynamics of change within the arms race and the attempts at controlling and limiting it. At the time the nuclear arms race was strongly technologically determined, as Herbert York demonstrates in discussing the impact of MIRV. Such progress as has been made in nuclear disarmament has been far outdistanced by the technological developments so that, as Jack Ruina argues, SALT is only important when seen as part of a process of negotiating arms limitations. The most significant result of this technological advance has been the emergence of a qualitatively new system of international politics which Hans Morgenthau analyses. This system is essentially bipolar in nuclear terms and the history of the disarmament negotiations, as reviewed by William Epstein, is an exercise in freezing this structure. The negotiations themselves, particularly SALT, and the prospects for further progress are discussed extensively by Thomas Schelling, Kosta Tsipis, George Rathjens and others. The book also surveys developments in chemical and biological warfare and includes an important paper on chemical warfare agents by the Soviet chemist, O.A. Ruetov. The final section looks at recent developments in the theory of conflict and its applications in the Middle East, South Africa and a number of developing countries.

Author : Colin S. Gray
Publisher : Farnborough, Hants. : Saxon House ; Lexington, Mass. : Lexington Books
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036606122

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The Soviet-American Arms Race by Colin S. Gray Pdf

Author : Torbjorn L. Knutsen,Torbjørn L. Knutsen
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1997-06-15
Category : History
ISBN : 071904930X

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History of International Relations Theory by Torbjorn L. Knutsen,Torbjørn L. Knutsen Pdf

Torbjorn L. Knutsen introduces ideas on international relations expressed by thinkers from the High Middle Ages to the present day and traces the development of four ever-present themes: war, peace, wealth and power. The book counters the view that international relations has no theoretical tradition and shows that scholars, soldiers and statesmen have been speculating about the subject for the last 700 years. Beginning with the roots of the state and the concept of sovereignty in the Middle Ages, the author draws upon the insights of outstanding political thinkers - from Machiavelli and Hobbes to Hegel, Rousseau, and Marx and contemporary thinkers such as Woodrow Wilson, Lenin, Morgenthau and Walt - who profoundly influenced the emergence of a discrete discipline of International Relations in the twentieth century. Fully revised and updated, the final section embraces more recent approaches to the study of international relations, most notably postmodernism and ecologism.

Author : Pierre Allan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015004274505

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Crisis Bargaining and the Arms Race by Pierre Allan Pdf