The Balance Of Terror

Author : Vipin Narang,Scott D. Sagan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 150176716X

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The Fragile Balance of Terror by Vipin Narang,Scott D. Sagan Pdf

In The Fragile Balance of Terror, the foremost experts on nuclear policy and strategy offer insight into an era rife with more nuclear powers. Some of these new powers suffer domestic instability, others are led by pathological personalist dictators, and many are situated in highly unstable regions of the world?a volatile mix of variables. The increasing fragility of deterrence in the twenty-first century is created by a confluence of forces: military technologies that create vulnerable arsenals, a novel information ecosystem that rapidly transmits both information and misinformation, nuclear rivalries that include three or more nuclear powers, and dictatorial decision making that encourages rash choices. The nuclear threats posed by India, Pakistan, Iran, and North Korea are thus fraught with danger. The Fragile Balance of Terror, edited by Vipin Narang and Scott D. Sagan, brings together a diverse collection of rigorous and creative scholars who analyze how the nuclear landscape is changing for the worse. Scholars, pundits, and policymakers who think that the spread of nuclear weapons can create stable forms of nuclear deterrence in the future will be forced to think again. Contributors: Giles David Arceneaux, Mark S. Bell, Christopher Clary, Peter D. Feaver, Jeffrey Lewis, Rose McDermott, Nicholas L. Miller, Vipin Narang, Ankit Panda, Scott D. Sagan, Caitlin Talmadge, Heather Williams, Amy Zegart

Author : Eric A. Posner,Adrian Vermeule
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-01-04
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780195310252

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Terror in the Balance by Eric A. Posner,Adrian Vermeule Pdf

In Terror in the Balance, Posner and Vermeule take on civil libertarians of both the left and the right, arguing that the government should be given wide latitude to adjust policy and liberties in the times of emergency. They emphasize the virtues of unilateral executive actions and argue for making extensive powers available to the executive as warranted. At a time when the 'struggle against violent extremism' dominates the United States' agenda, this important and controversial work will spark discussion in the classroom and intellectual press alike.

Author : Pierre Marie Gallois
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Military policy
ISBN : UOM:39015002249277

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The Balance of Terror by Pierre Marie Gallois Pdf

Author : Joseph Masco
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822375999

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The Theater of Operations by Joseph Masco Pdf

How did the most powerful nation on earth come to embrace terror as the organizing principle of its security policy? In The Theater of Operations, Joseph Masco locates the origins of the present-day U.S. counterterrorism apparatus in the Cold War's "balance of terror." He shows how, after the attacks of 9/11, the U.S. global War on Terror mobilized a wide range of affective, conceptual, and institutional resources established during the Cold War to enable a new planetary theater of operations. Tracing how specific aspects of emotional management, existential danger, state secrecy, and threat awareness have evolved as core aspects of the American social contract, Masco draws on archival, media, and ethnographic resources to offer a new portrait of American national security culture. Undemocratic and unrelenting, this counterterror state prioritizes speculative practices over facts, and ignores everyday forms of violence across climate, capital, and health in an unprecedented effort to anticipate and eliminate terror threats—real, imagined, and emergent.

Author : William Woodruff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1991-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349122325

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A Concise History of the Modern World by William Woodruff Pdf

This book investigates the major changes in world history and world economy during the past five hundred years and explains to what extent world forces have been responsible for shaping both past and present. Its underlying theme is the struggle for power in which, since the sixteenth century, the West has prevailed. Many of the problems of the contemporary world - including terrorism - are the legacy of the period of Western domination. Until the rise of the West, and its incomparable impact on every branch of human activity, the centre of the world has been in Asia. By the nineteenth century world power was firmly in the hands of the West. America's later rise to world status was prompted by the two world wars. The most prominent of the Western nations, the US is now blamed for all the excesses of an earlier colonial age.

Author : Chris Priestley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781599906997

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Tales of Terror from the Black Ship by Chris Priestley Pdf

A follow up to Uncle Montague's Tales of Terror, this is another creepy middle grade story collection with a chilling frame. This time, the stories are all tales of the sea: pirates and plagues and storms a plenty...

Author : Seth Weinberger
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313360404

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Restoring the Balance by Seth Weinberger Pdf

Since 9/11, one of the most dominant issues in American politics has been: what exactly is a war on terror and who is in charge of it? Previous books on this topic have fallen off the horse on either side: on the right, making military actions under the Bush administration equal to previous declared wars and ceding too much war-making power to the presidency or on the left, requiring congressional approval for any national security steps at all, contradicting much of American historical precedent. Weinberger presents a novel understanding of the Declare War clause of the Constitution (Article 1, Section 8), filtering it through the AUMFs passed by Congress since 9/11 and concluding that the Presidency has wide latitude and autonomy in the overseas theaters, but not on the domestic front.

Author : Edward L. Beach
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781682471678

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Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward L. Beach Pdf

This is a story of the silent service—the submarine crews which destroyed the Japanese merchant marine. A narrative taut with drama, told with the intimacy of a confession, it deals with two strong-headed men: their loves, their jealousies, and their destinies in the lonely and desperate struggle between the hunter and the hunted. Few war novels will rival Run Silent, Run Deep in the naked realism of its action. None will surpass its rising excitement and brilliant descriptions of men in combat. Unlike many war novels, here is a story that deals with war from the perspective of command. Edward Beach re-creates with fidelity the anguish, agony, and triumphs of command decisions. In Commander Richardson, he has created a character who embodies all that is fine, all that is human, in an excellent naval officer. In a sense, Run Silent, Run Deep is a monument, not to the misfits and the mistakes, but to those men who rose to greatness under the sometimes unbearable tensions of action.

Author : Michael Ignatieff
Publisher : Penguin Canada
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780143181347

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Lesser Evil by Michael Ignatieff Pdf

In the age of terrorism, the temptations of ruthlessness can be overwhelming. But there is also the anxiety that a violent response to violence makes us morally indistinguishable from our enemies. There is perhaps no greater political challenge today than trying to win the war against terrorism without losing our democratic souls. Michael Ignatieff confronts this challenge head-on with a combination of pragmatic idealism, historical sensitivity, and astute political judgment. Ignatieff traces the modern history of terrorism and counter-terrorism from the nihilists of Czarist Russia and the militias of Weimar Germany to the IRA and Al Qaeda. He shows how the most potent response to terror has been force, decisive and direct, but—just as important—restrained. Restraint also gives democracy its strongest weapon: the moral power to endure when the furies of vengeance and hatred are spent.

Author : Philip Bobbitt
Publisher : Springer
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1989-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349197910

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US Nuclear Strategy by Philip Bobbitt Pdf

Setting the terms for an effective public debate on nuclear issues, this provides essays and excerpts from longer works that have charted the development of American nuclear strategy. Each section ends with questions for study and analysis with suggested further reading.

Author : Spencer Ackerman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781984879783

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Reign of Terror by Spencer Ackerman Pdf

A New York Times Critics’ Top Book of 2021 "An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full effect. The result is a narrative of the last 20 years that is upsetting, discerning and brilliantly argued." —The New York Times "One of the most illuminating books to come out of the Trump era." —New York Magazine An examination of the profound impact that the War on Terror had in pushing American politics and society in an authoritarian direction For an entire generation, at home and abroad, the United States has waged an endless conflict known as the War on Terror. In addition to multiple ground wars, the era pioneered drone strikes and industrial-scale digital surveillance; weakened the rule of law through indefinite detentions; sanctioned torture; and manipulated the truth about it all. These conflicts have yielded neither peace nor victory, but they have transformed America. What began as the persecution of Muslims and immigrants has become a normalized feature of American politics and national security, expanding the possibilities for applying similar or worse measures against other targets at home, as the summer of 2020 showed. A politically divided and economically destabilized country turned the War on Terror into a cultural—and then a tribal—struggle. It began on the ideological frontiers of the Republican Party before expanding to conquer the GOP, often with the acquiescence of the Democratic Party. Today’s nativist resurgence walked through a door opened by the 9/11 era. And that door remains open. Reign of Terror shows how these developments created an opportunity for American authoritarianism and gave rise to Donald Trump. It shows that Barack Obama squandered an opportunity to dismantle the War on Terror after killing Osama bin Laden. By the end of his tenure, the war had metastasized into a bitter, broader cultural struggle in search of a demagogue like Trump to lead it. Reign of Terror is a pathbreaking and definitive union of journalism and intellectual history with the power to transform how America understands its national security policies and their catastrophic impact on civic life.

Author : A. J. C. Edwards
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0887061850

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Nuclear Weapons by A. J. C. Edwards Pdf

This is a clear, non-technical and comprehensive study of nuclear strategy and the balance of power. The book is intended for both supporters and opponents of nuclear deterrence--indeed for all who believe that nuclear issues cannot be wished away or laid aside but must be addressed with knowledge, even if this means thinking about the unthinkable. Within a coherent system of thought, this volume addresses the most fundamental issues of our time, such as the first-strike advantage, arms-control agreements, the Star Wars program, the "nuclear winter" hypothesis, and nuclear conflict itself. The book is packed with valuable factual information, including notes, diagrams, illustrations, and appendices.

Author : Edgar M. Bottome
Publisher : Beacon Press (MA)
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015002229865

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The Balance of Terror by Edgar M. Bottome Pdf

Author : Danny Schechter
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0742531090

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Media Wars by Danny Schechter Pdf

The author critically examines media coverage since September 11th. He analyzes what has been covered and left out in news coverage of the terrorist attacks and their aftermath. The result is a scathing account of how the media has become a megaphone forthe US military ant its war on terror.

Author : Blair Kamin
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780226423128

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Terror and Wonder by Blair Kamin Pdf

Collects the best of Kamin's writings for the Chicago Tribune from the past decade.