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The book shows that from the last two decades of the twentieth century and the end of the Cold War in 1991, a shift occurred in inter-American geopolitics as the United States emerged as the dominant global structural power. The post-Cold War international relations and new geopolitics are predominantly driven by geoeconomic rationales and outclass the old Cold War geopolitics overwhelmingly dominated by state politics and security strategies. The...
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"2020: A Pivotal Year?" addresses the impacts of the COVID-19 disruption on global politics and provides assessments of the ripple effects felt throughout Europe and Asia. The book brings together several key essays written during 2020 and in early 2021 from our websites, Second Line of Defense and Defense.info, which focus on geopolitical change and defense modernization. Authors based in Europe, the United States, and Australia have all contributed...
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Published just days before the ink was dry on the treaty with Iran, author Mehdi Sarram holds a postgraduate degree from the University of Michigan, a professional engineer with 47 years of nuclear experience and has traveled to 38 countries with nuclear programs. He was a US Atomic Energy Commission Senior Reactor Operator in 1965. Mr. Sarram was a professor at the University of Tehran 1968-1974 and one of eight directors of the Atomic Energy Organization...
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"Nobody approaches the objectivity and precision of Bush and O'Hanlon when it comes to analysis of the military and political dimensions of the Taiwan issue. This is one challenge that U.S. policymakers and military strategists cannot afford to get wrong, and scholars cannot afford to ignore."
- Michael Green, former Senior Director for Asian Affairs National Security Council
The Showdown to Come
In 1995, during a heated discussion about that year's...
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In every decade of the nuclear era, one or two states have developed nuclear weapons despite the international community's opposition to proliferation. In the coming years, the breakdown of security arrangements, especially in the Middle East and Northeast Asia, could drive additional countries to seek their own nuclear, biological, or chemical (NBC) weapons and missiles. This likely would produce greater instability, more insecure states, and further...
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Más conocida por su guerra civil, Colombia es un país diestro en buscar negociaciones con guerrillas, paramilitares y narcos, pero ha sido mucho menos diestra en la construcción de unas instituciones políticas eficaces, de un territorio integrado y de una sociedad decente.
Este ensayo recorre la historia de esos múltiples intentos de paz "tan antiguos como el conflicto armado". Está escrito por quien ha sido testigo del último gran intento...
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In November 1983, Soviet nuclear forces went on high alert. After months nervously watching increasingly assertive NATO military posturing, Soviet intelligence agencies in Western Europe received flash telegrams reporting alarming activity on U. S. bases. In response, the Soviets began planning for a countdown to a nuclear first strike by NATO on Eastern Europe. And then Able Archer 83, a vast NATO war game exercise that modeled a Soviet attack on...
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The mortal danger of nuclear weapons is unique in its terrifying potential for devastation on an unprecedented and unimaginable scale. In this book, Sidney D. Drell and James E. Goodby-each with more than twenty years' experience in national security issues both in public and private capacities-review the main policy issues surrounding nonproliferation of nuclear weapons. They address the specific actions that the community of nations-with American...
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"Since the Hiroshima and Nagasaki attacks, no state has unleashed nuclear weapons. What explains this? According to the author, the answer lies in a prohibition inherent in the tradition of non-use, a time-honored obligation that has been adhered to by all nuclear states-thanks to a consensus view that use would have a catastrophic impact on humankind, the environment, and the reputation of the user.The book offers an in-depth analysis of the nuclear...
30) Yihadismo
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¿Qué impulsa a un joven musulmán a colocarse un cinturón de explosivos para inmolarse y causar la muerte a un gran número de desconocidos inocentes? Un acto que a todas luces nos resulta irracional, y tras el que quizás pueda ocultarse más de un motivo, pero el principal es este: la pretensión de cumplir con la yihad, el afán de implantar por medio del terror la sharia o ley islámica en los países que son o fueron en su día musulmanes.
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Dans moins d'une génération, l'ordre géopolitique et géoéconomique mondial sera manifestement différent de celui que nous connaissons aujourd'hui, ces dynamiques à l'oeuvre étant le résultat de la puissance décomplexée de la Chine et des « nouvelles routes de la soie ». Amorcé en 2013, le mégaprojet Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), avec pour objectif le déploiement à partir de la Chine d'un ensemble multiforme d'initiatives économiques,...
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A leading strategist opens our eyes to the greatest terrorist threat of all-and how to prevent it before it's too late
Americans in the twenty-first century are keenly aware of the many forms of terrorism: hijackings, biological attacks, chemical weapons. However, rarely do we allow ourselves to face squarely the deadliest form of terrorism, because it is almost too scary to think about-a terrorist group exploding a nuclear device in an American...
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Para mantener la lógica de su sistema social y económico, la Modernidad alimenta una zona oscura, una sombra que hace posible la imposición de modelos, de instituciones y conceptos, es decir, reproduce la colonialidad. Desde diferentes puntos de análisis, los autores aquí reunidos exigen la recuperación de la pluralidad, hacen del margen es decir, de todo aquello que fue marginado, relegado un observatorio para cuestionar el autoproclamado "centro".
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"El nuevo libro de Augusto Zamora no trata de ser una mera continuación de Política y geopolítica para rebeldes, irreverentes y escépticos. Es un texto autónomo, con vida propia, en el que, partiendo de algunas de las líneas ya adelantadas en su anterior obra (y confirmándolas con los hechos más recientes), y haciendo un riguroso análisis de los datos, define a la perfección la nueva época geopolítica en la que hemos entrado.
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When Reagan and Gorbachev sat down in Reykjavik in 1986, George Shultz said that it was "the poker game with the highest stakes ever played." It was the last time the world had a chance to do away entirely with nuclear weapons. This is the behind-the-scenes story of this remarkable summit conference. An Impossible Dream is the first exploration of recently-available archives of both sides-top-secret archives of the Kremlin, the personal papers of...
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From the controversial expert who brought Iran's nuclear program to the attention of the world in 2002 comes a searing exposé of the inner workings and plans of Iran's mullahs. With access to dissident groups inside Iran, Alireza Jafarzadeh traces President Ahmadinejad's radical roots and involvement in terror attacks to his impact on Iran's weapons program. He reveals new details on Iran's meddling in Iraq and its broader goals for the future of...
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Atomic Steppe tells the untold true story of how the obscure country of Kazakhstan said no to the most powerful weapons in human history. With the fall of the Soviet Union, the marginalized Central Asian republic suddenly found itself with the world's fourth largest nuclear arsenal on its territory. Would it give up these fire-ready weapons-or try to become a Central Asian North Korea?
This book takes us inside Kazakhstan's extraordinary and little-known...
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In this incisive examination of our national security policy, Michael Klare suggests that the Pentagon in effect established a new class of enemies when the Cold War came to an, unpredictable and hostile states in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Klare argues that the containment of these rising Third World powers-Iraq, Iran, Libya, and North Korea, especially, became the centerpiece of American military policy and the justification for near-Cold...
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For the first time, the Nobel Prize laureate and "man in the middle" of the planet's most explosive confrontations speaks out-on his dealings with America, negotiations with Iran, reform and democracy in the Middle East, and the prospects for a future free of nuclear weapons.
For the past two decades, Mohamed ElBaradei has played a key role in the most high-stakes conflicts of our time. Unique in maintaining credibility in the Arab world and the...
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Conceived as a comprehensive introduction to a field central to the work of the United Nations, Disarmament: A Basic Guide aims to provide a useful overview of the nuanced challenges of building a more peaceful world in the twenty-first century. It was written with the general reader in mind and it strives to be accessible without downplaying the complexity of the issues it explores. This fourth edition includes updated figures, tables and treaty...
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