In June 1994, the United States went to the brink of war with North Korea. With economic sanctions impending, President Bill Clinton approved the dispatch of substantial reinforcements to Korea, and plans were prepared for attacking the North's nuclear weapons complex. The turning point came in an extraordinary private diplomatic initiative by ...
According to this book, the United States has lost its opportunity to address the new nuclear dangers caused by the disintegration of the Soviet Union. The author argues that the actions of American foreign-policy-makers alienated Russia's democrats and provoked a nationalist backlash.
A behind-the-scenes look at the environment for US defence policy and budgeting. It shows how the political base for defence spending is eroding and that the economic benefits of defence spending and of foreign military sales are increasingly concentrated.
In "Negotiating Minefields: The Landmines Ban in American" "Politics", Leon Sigal shows how a handful of NGOs with almost no mass base got more than 100 countries to outlaw a weapon that their armies had long used. It is a story of intrigue and misperception, of clashing norms and interests, of contentious bureaucratic and domestic politics.
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