An examination of British foreign and defence policy during the 1980s, exploring the Anglo-American security relationship and analyzing challenges to the nuclear orthodoxy. Central government policies towards Northern Ireland and the various perceptions of the threat of the Soviet Union are discussed. The costs of defence from a monetary and an intellectual point of view are assessed. The text concludes with a chapter which stocktakes the situation after the end of the Cold War.

British Security Policy: The Thatcher Years and the End of the Cold War

Politics & Social Sciences

Croft, Stuart

Politics & Government

Routledge

Culture, Crisis and America's War on Terror

<p>Since the infamous events of 9/11, the fear of terrorism and the determination to strike back against it has become a topic of enormous public debate. The 'war on terror' discourse has developed not only through American politics but via other channels including the media, the church, music, novels, films and television, and therefore permeates many aspects of American life. Stuart Croft suggests that the process of this production of knowledge has created a very particular form of common sense which shapes relationships, jokes and even forms of tattoos. Understanding how a social process of crisis can be mapped out and how that process creates assumptions allows policy-making in America's war on terror to be examined from new perspectives. Using IR approaches together with insights from cultural studies, this book develops a dynamic model of crisis which seeks to understand the war on terror as a cultural phenomenon.</p>

Anthropology

Cambridge University Press

The contributors to this overview of the changes in security studies reflect critically on the past decades since the 1980s and consider what the future holds, in a select few areas of security studies.

Critical Reflections on Security and Change (Contemporary Security Studies (Paperback))

History

Military

Bringing the subject of arms control into the arena of complex, multi-polar international relations, this text traces the history of agreements over weapons back to ancient times. The author puts forward a typology of arms control: it occurs at the end of major conflicts, stabilizes balances between states, develops norms of behaviour, manages weapons proliferation, and acts as a tool of international organizations. He examines the evolution of five qualitatively different strategies, and applies the arms control typology to agreements in the post-Cold War world.

Strategies of Arms Control: A History and Typology

Children's Books

Manchester Univ Pr

Strategies of arms control (Political Analysis)

Manchester University Press

This book examines the debates surrounding the expansion of the five main European institutions since the end of the Cold War. These institutions, all founded during the Cold War--the European Union, NATO, the Western European Union, the Council of Europe and the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe--have had to adjust to the dramatic changes that have accompanied the collapse of Communism. The extent and speed with which the process of enlargement takes place will be the most important factor in determining how the continent develops. Focusing on three main questions, the contributors ask: Is there an accepted unitary vision as to how Europe should develop and is this vision guiding the process of enlargement, or are there competing visions between the different institutions that are resulting in a fragmentary approach? To what extent have there been separate motives for enlargement within each institution? Have these debates and policies been related to any overall framework? And has there been a deliberate policy by Western governments to indulge in "cost free" expansion, enlarging political areas first and leaving more difficult issues of security and economics to a later stage?

The Enlargement of Europe (Political Analysis)

Webber, Mark

Redmond, John

Rees, G.Wyn

Europe

Security Studies Today

This is the first book to examine the range of thinking about security that has emerged in the academic literature over the past fifteen years.

Morgan, Patrick

Terriff, Terry

James, Lucy

Polity Pr

Engineering & Transportation

Engineering

Polity

Emerging Dimensions Of European Security Policy

In this book authors from Europe and the United States discuss the traditional, contemporary and emerging aspects of European security under the influence of the dramatic changes that took place in Germany and Eastern Europe in 1989.

Hampson, Fen

Danspeckgruber, Wolfgang F.

Risse-Kappen, Thomas

Vetschera, Heinz

Westview Press

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