A violent peace: global security after the Cold War

1993 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 348-348
Author(s):  
Eric Herring
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Global Security ◽  
The Cold War

Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Siracusa
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Political Development ◽  
War And Peace ◽  
Short Introduction ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Hydrogen Bomb ◽  
Star Wars ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Potential Use

Nuclear Weapons: A Very Short Introduction covers the scientific, historical, and political development of nuclear weapons, and how they transformed the very nature of war and peace. Nuclear weapons have not been used in anger since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, seventy-five years ago. However, nuclear threats remain fundamental to relations between many states, complicating issues of global security. Their potential use by terrorists is an increasing concern. This book looks at the race to acquire the hydrogen bomb; Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defence Initiative (‘Star Wars’); contemporary defences against possible ballistic missile launches; and the policies nuclear weapons have generated since the end of the Cold War.

Nuclear Weapons & Nuclear Use

Daedalus ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 145 (4) ◽  
pp. 50-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Robert Kehler
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Nuclear Deterrence ◽  
Complete Elimination ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Quarter Century ◽  
Nuclear Arsenal ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
The U.S

While nuclear weapons were conceived to end a war, in the aftermath of their operational use at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they became the central (and controversial) means to prevent a war. Nuclear deterrence formed the foundation of U.S. Cold War doctrine and the basis of an extended security guarantee to our allies. But the Cold War ended one-quarter century ago, and questions about the efficacy of deterrence, the need for nuclear weapons, and the ethics surrounding them have resurfaced as some call for further major reductions in inventory or the complete elimination of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Discussed from the perspective of a military practitioner, this essay highlights the continuing need for U.S. nuclear weapons in a global security environment that is highly complex and uncertain, and describes the means by which the credibility of the nuclear portion of the strategic deterrent is being preserved even as the role and prominence of these weapons have been reduced.

Global Security After The End of The Cold War

1994 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael D. Intriligator
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Global Security ◽  
The Cold War

7. Reflections on the Atomic Age

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Siracusa
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Mass Destruction ◽  
Atomic Age ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Nuclear Terrorism ◽  
Regional Conflict ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Cold War

Does the spread of nuclear weapons make the world safer or more dangerous? ‘Reflections on the Atomic Age’ considers this debate's relevance now and in the future. The clarity of the Cold War world has given way to the ambiguities and uncertainties of a world where global security is threatened by regime collapse, nuclear terrorism, new nuclear weapons states, regional conflict, and pre-existing nuclear arsenals. The prediction of mass destruction has so far proved false, but is that because of effective efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, or is it just luck?

7. Post-Cold War era

2020 ◽  
pp. 104-126
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Siracusa
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Nuclear Proliferation ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Post Cold War ◽  
Nuclear Terrorism ◽  
Regional Conflict ◽  
Cold War Era ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cold War

What significant lessons can be learned from the history of nuclear weapons? ‘Post-Cold War era’ considers post-Cold War attempts to curb nuclear proliferation. The clarity of the Cold War world has given way to the ambiguities and uncertainties of a world where global security is threatened by regime collapse, nuclear terrorism, new nuclear weapons states, regional conflict, and pre-existing nuclear arsenals. The nuclear rivalry with Russia, North Korea, and Iran gives the feeling of returning to the Cold War period, with the ever present threat of a deliberate or unintended confrontation. So far, we have avoided mutual destruction, but is this down to policy or luck?

Global Security and Economic Well-being: A Strategic Perspective

1994 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Gray
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Post War ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Strategic Perspective ◽  
Realist Perspective ◽  
Economic Well Being

The end of the Cold War has wrought havoc among Western students of strategy as well as among and to the political institutions of the post-war period. Many erstwhile ‘strategists' have decided that it is more correct for the 1990s to become specialists in security, even global security. This paper examines critically, in strategic perspective, the purported connections between economic well-being and global security. The proposition that a strategic, more broadly a ‘realist’, perspective either neglects or discourages ethical considerations is also discussed. There is less than meets the eye to claims for a rising pre-eminence for economic issues vis à vis a global security, while the very concept of a global security is more attractive than it is useful.

Global Security, Glasnost and the Retreat Dividend

1991 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Andrus Park
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Economic System ◽  
Communist Party ◽  
Consumer Goods ◽  
Global Security ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Complete Failure ◽  
The Cold War

THE QUESTION ‘WHO WON THE COLD WAR?’ IS STILL BEING debated. In a way it is certainly right to say that communism is collapsing and that Western capitalism has won the cold war. The Soviet Union (I shall not analyse here the situation in other socialist countries) has in fact recognised the complete failure of its economic system. The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) has lost ground during the relatively free elections in various Soviet republics, etc.Yet we have to take into account that the cold war was largely a war of words, a war of ideas, and in some respects the Soviet Union has done well in the global ideological contest. For a country with a scarcity of food and most elementary consumer goods and with an extensive past record of repression and direct terror it has been extremely successful in establishing its image as a stable and peace-loving partner in the international arena, as a society which is capable of producing more humane, caring, intellectual and trustworthy leaders than most other countries. It is a remarkable achievement and it is even more remarkable that this ideological success has emerged from the ruins of the dull and rigid Brezhnevist ideological machinery.

The United Nations and Global Security: The Norm is Mightier than the Sword

1995 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 37-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael N. Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Security Architecture ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Member States ◽  
Cooperative Security ◽  
The United Nations ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Pragmatic Assessment ◽  
Security Affairs

Barnett argues that the United Nations, by operating on the principle of the consent of the parties, can encourage the development of a more stable and cooperative security architecture. The articulation and transmission of norms and the establishment of mechanisms can encourage transparency in interstate and internal matters. After the Cold War some entertained the possibility of increasing United Nations involvement in security affairs and making it a muscular security organization. Such visions, however, outstripped either what the United Nations was immediately capable of accomplishing or what the member states were willing to support. These developments demand a more pragmatic assessment of the United Nations to learn what it can do well, what it cannot do well, and how it can become more effective.

Religion and Terrorism

2019 ◽  
pp. 282-297
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Single Event ◽  
Global Security ◽  
Good Place ◽  
Islamic Terrorism ◽  
The Usa ◽  
Clash Of Civilisations ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Religious Terrorism

No single event explains all recent and current examples of religious terrorism. Samuel Huntington’s highly influential yet very controversial argument is however a good place to start, not least because it highlighted probably the most egregious example of the genre, Islamic terrorism. Although Huntington was discussing what he called “clash of civilisations,” this did not mean that inter-religious or inter-cultural clashes were not also in focus. This chapter focuses on the development of “religious terrorism” after the end of the Cold War. It argues that religious terrorism has affected global security and led the USA into various unsuccessful foreign policy adventures—into Iraq, Afghanistan, and so on. In addition, religious terrorism stimulated the rise—and fall—of various transnational Islamic terror groups, as well as contributed to the fragility of various states, including: Somalia, Nigeria, and Mali.

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