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Title: The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate by Scott Douglas Sagan, Kenneth N. Waltz ISBN: 0-393-03810-6 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1995 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Perhaps the best first taste of International Relations
Comment: Very readable, very historically considered, very well-written. I applaud both writers.
Written in a debate format - essays answer one another's arguments.
Kenneth Waltz approaches the subject of nuclear proliferation from a neo-realist perspective - one concerned not with the realities of the world, but with a theoretical understanding of the way *all* international relations supposedly work. He takes as his starting point a world filled with states that are all created equal, but have different capabilities, and then elaborates the theoretical consequences as he sees them.
Scott Sagan views his writing as a wakeup call to what he sees as an academic blinded by theoretical utopianism. To Sagan, imagining that states act according to a theoretical model is ridiculous, and Sagan reminds Waltz that the forces controlling decisionmaking by nation-states are much more complex than Waltz will admit.
The classic debate between liberalism and realism is not rehearsed, and the debate is specific to nuclear proliferation (Waltz thinks nukes make the world safer by making states scared to attack one another; Sagan thinks nukes are dangerous), but the different approaches that each writer takes to the subject makes this book an excellent introduction to the way that international relations is studied and debated. If you're interested in nuclear policy, this book is of paramount importance. If you're interested in international relations, this book is intellectual candy. If you're not interested in international relations, this book will get you interested.
Rating: 4
Summary: Perspectives in the Nuclear Debate
Comment: Is nuclear proliferation good? Does it increase stability? Or is it unstable, either because of accidents or misuse? Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz play out this debate in this book that looks at the nuclear question through organisational and realist perspectives. If you thought the answer to this debate was obvious, think again - this book will certainly leave you with a lot of questions.
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Title: Special Providence: American Foreign Policy and How It Changed the World by Walter Russell Mead, Richard C. Leone ISBN: 0415935369 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: September, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Statistics for Business and Economics and Student CD-ROM, Fifth Edition by Paul Newbold, William L. Carlson, Betty M. Thorne ISBN: 0130293202 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $123.00 |
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Title: After Victory by G. John Ikenberry ISBN: 0691050910 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 15 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Free Trade Today by Jagdish N. Bhagwati ISBN: 0691117306 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 22 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Microeconomics (5th Edition) by Robert S. Pindyck, Daniel L. Rubinfeld ISBN: 0130165832 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 27 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $125.00 |
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