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Not War, Not Peace?

Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border Terrorism

By: George Perkovich,Toby Dalton

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Not War, Not Peace?

Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border Terrorism

By: George Perkovich,Toby Dalton

The Mumbai blasts of 1993, the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001, Mumbai 26/11—cross-border terrorism has continued unabated. What can India do to motivate Pakistan to do more to prevent such attacks? In the nuclear times that we live in, where a military counter-attack could escalate to destruction beyond imagination, overt warfare is clearly not an option. But since outright peace-making seems similarly infeasible, what combination of coercive pressure and bargaining could lead to peace? The authors provide, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the violent and non-violent options available to India for compelling Pakistan to take concrete steps towards curbing terrorism originating in its homeland. They draw on extensive interviews with senior Indian and Pakistani officials, in service and retired, to explore the challenges involved in compellence and to show how non-violent coercion combined with clarity on the economic, social and reputational costs of terrorism can better motivate Pakistan to pacify groups involved in cross-border terrorism. Not War, Not Peace? goes beyond the much discussed theories of nuclear deterrence and counterterrorism strategy to explore a new approach to resolving old conflicts.

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Oxford University Press

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0199089701

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9780199089703

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

By: George Perkovich

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Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

By: George Perkovich

Nuclear disarmament is firmly back on the international agenda. But almost all current thinking on the subject is focused on the process of reducing the number of weapons from thousands to hundreds. This rigorous analysis examines the challenges that exist to abolishing nuclear weapons completely, and suggests what can be done now to start overcoming them. The paper argues that the difficulties of 'getting to zero' must not preclude many steps being taken in that direction. It thus begins by examining steps that nuclear-armed states could take in cooperation with others to move towards a world in which the task of prohibiting nuclear weapons could be realistically envisaged. The remainder of the paper focuses on the more distant prospect of prohibiting nuclear weapons, beginning with the challenge of verifying the transition from low numbers to zero. It moves on to examine how the civilian nuclear industry could be managed in a nuclear-weapons-free world so as to prevent rearmament. The paper then considers what political-security conditions would be required to make a nuclear-weapons ban enforceable and explores how enforcement might work in practice. Finally, it addresses the latent capability to produce nuclear weapons that would inevitably exist after abolition, and asks whether this is a barrier to disarmament, or whether it can be managed to meet the security needs of a world newly free of the bomb.

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Routledge

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1351225960

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India's Nuclear Bomb

The Impact on Global Proliferation

By: George Perkovich

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India's Nuclear Bomb

The Impact on Global Proliferation

By: George Perkovich

Publisher Fact Sheet The definitive history of India's long flirtation with nuclear capability, culminating in the nuclear tests that surprised the world in May 1998.

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676

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Univ of California Press

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0520232100

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9780520232105

Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior

Growing Power and Alarm

By: George J. Gilboy,Eric Heginbotham

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Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior

Growing Power and Alarm

By: George J. Gilboy,Eric Heginbotham

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377

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Cambridge University Press

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1107020050

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9781107020054

Deterrence

Its Past and Future—Papers Presented at Hoover Institution, November 2010

By: George P. Shultz,Sidney D. Drell,James E. Goodby

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Deterrence

Its Past and Future—Papers Presented at Hoover Institution, November 2010

By: George P. Shultz,Sidney D. Drell,James E. Goodby

Drawn from the third in a series of conferences the Hoover Institution at Stanford University on the nuclear legacy of the cold war, this report examines the importance of deterrence, from its critical function in the cold war to its current role. Recognizing that today's international environment is radically different from that which it was during the cold war, the need is pressing to reassess the role of nuclear weapons in deterrence in the world of today and to look ahead to the future.

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Hoover Press

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0817913866

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9780817913861

Nuclear First Strike

Consequences of a Broken Taboo

By: George H. Quester

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Nuclear First Strike

Consequences of a Broken Taboo

By: George H. Quester

This provocative and timely work examines various scenarios in which the deployment of nuclear weapons could occur, the probable consequences of such an escalation, the likely world reactions, and the plausible policy ramifications. Rather than projecting the physical damage that would result from nuclear attacks, George H. Quester offers an exploration of the political, psychological, and social aftermath of nuclear conflict. The prospect of nuclear attack -- sixty years after atomic bombs destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki -- is difficult to confront on many levels. We may avoid the discussion for emotional reasons, for fear of generating a self-confirming hypothesis, or simply because of the general "nuclear taboo." But there are also self-denying propositions to be harnessed here: if the world gives some advance thought to how nuclear weapons might be used again, such attacks may be headed off. If the world avoids nuclear weapons use until the year 2045, it will be able to celebrate one hundred years of nuclear concord. Quester suggests that this may be achieved through the careful consideration of possible nuclear deployment scenarios and their consequences. In this insightful analysis, he provides a starting point for informed and focused reflection and preparation. -- Martha Smith-Norris

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JHU Press

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0801882842

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9780801882845

Nuclear Zero?

Lessons from the Last Time We Were There

By: George H. Quester

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Nuclear Zero?

Lessons from the Last Time We Were There

By: George H. Quester

George H. Quester argues that the possibility of nuclear war continues to loom despite the reduction in stockpiles by the major powers. Supporters of total nuclear disarmament often dismiss pessimistic objections to the possibility of reaching nuclear zero as being hypothetical, but this book looks at real illustrations for this possibility, taken from the years that gave the world the Manhattan Project.Any advocate of total nuclear disarmament must deal with the challenge of ""realist"" analysts of international relations, those who worry that being at zero nuclear weapons, or even close to zero, would be unstable and dangerous. Mutual fears could be self-confirming, leading to cheating on disarmament, and even nuclear war. While such fears are often dismissed as theoretical or hypothetical, this book attempts to test them against the real-life experience of the last time we were at nuclear zero. The years from 1933 to 1945 saw many such self-confirming fears, leading to the Manhattan Project and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.Optimism about the future cannot be ruled out totally, but the history of our experience with nuclear disarmament must be examined carefully to identify the crucial prerequisites for elimination of such weapons of mass destruction. This book is required reading for courses on arms control, defense policy, and international relations, or for readers looking for historical background on a critical global issue.

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Routledge

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1351502654

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Before and After the Cold War

Using Past Forecasts to Predict the Future

By: George H. Quester

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Before and After the Cold War

Using Past Forecasts to Predict the Future

By: George H. Quester

The end of the Cold War came as good news for most of the world. No one had predicted the collapse of Communist rule for several decades. This book looks at how political scientists failed to predict such a quick resolution and ways in which the world might develop post Cold War.

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1135285535

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9781135285531

Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants

Basis of Phytoremediation

By: George Kvesitadze,Gia Khatisashvili,Tinatin Sadunishvili,Jeremy J. Ramsden

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Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants

Basis of Phytoremediation

By: George Kvesitadze,Gia Khatisashvili,Tinatin Sadunishvili,Jeremy J. Ramsden

Plants play a key role in purifying the biosphere of the toxic effects of industrial activity. This book shows how systematic application of the results of investigations into the metabolism of xenobiotics (foreign, often toxic substances) in plants could make a vastly increased contribution to planetary well-being. Deep physiological knowledge gained from an accumulation of experimental data enables the great differences between the detoxifying abilities of different plants for compounds of different chemical nature to be optimally exploited. Hence planting could be far more systematically adapted to actual environmental needs than is actually the case at present. The book could form the basis of specialist courses in universities and polytechnics devoted to environmental management, and advanced courses in plant physiology and biochemistry, for botany and integrative biology students. Fundamental plant physiology and biochemistry from the molecular level to whole plants and ecosystems are interwoven in a powerful and natural way, making this a unique contribution to the field.

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267

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Springer Science & Business Media

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3540289976

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9783540289975

Zeroing In on the Year 2000

The Final Edition

By: George E. Marcus

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Zeroing In on the Year 2000

The Final Edition

By: George E. Marcus

Late Editions 8 is the final volume in the annual series devoted to documenting the diverse social and cultural transitions of the fin-de-siècle just past into the twenty-first century. Through the innovative use of conversations and interviews, this series has ranged over many topics in many places, including corporations, media, science and technology, government, political culture, journalism, and social movements, always offering access to the points of view and experiences of people engaged in crucial processes of change. The book begins with a fascinating, at times poignant, look back at the inception and progress of the series, in which the contributors reflect on how the shifting contexts for the production and reception of the series has been a reliable barometer of the profound ways in which traditional forms of knowledge about society are changing. Then, appropriate to the end of the century and of the series, the focus turns to pieces that deal with social phenomena that evoke the value of zero. They explore the idea of a zero state as it relates to artificial intelligence, euthanasia, cryonics, money, and the disappearing idea of society itself in the discourse of contemporary politics. Far from being the loss of meaning, the consideration of zero entails the proliferation of meaning in the face of voids, absences, and ultimately, of puzzles like the contemplation of death in life. In this way, so many of the fin-de-siècle conditions that have been documented in this series have exemplified precisely this quest for meaning at or near zero points of change, of ends and beginnings, in social life.

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University of Chicago Press

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0226504670

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9780226504674

India's Nuclear Bomb

The Impact on Global Proliferation

By: George Perkovich

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India's Nuclear Bomb

The Impact on Global Proliferation

By: George Perkovich

Publisher Fact Sheet The definitive history of India's long flirtation with nuclear capability, culminating in the nuclear tests that surprised the world in May 1998.

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Univ of California Press

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0520232100

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Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

By: George Perkovich

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Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

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Not War, Not Peace?

Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border Terrorism

By: George Perkovich,Toby Dalton

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Motivating Pakistan to Prevent Cross-Border Terrorism

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Book's by George Perkovich

Not War, Not Peace?

Not War, Not Peace?

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

India's Nuclear Bomb

India's Nuclear Bomb

Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior

Chinese and Indian Strategic Behavior

Deterrence

Deterrence

Nuclear First Strike

Nuclear First Strike

Nuclear Zero?

Nuclear Zero?

Before and After the Cold War

Before and After the Cold War

Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants

Biochemical Mechanisms of Detoxification in Higher Plants

Zeroing In on the Year 2000

Zeroing In on the Year 2000

India's Nuclear Bomb

India's Nuclear Bomb

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

Abolishing Nuclear Weapons

Not War, Not Peace?

Not War, Not Peace?

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