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Arms Control for the Third Nuclear Age: Between Disarmament and Armageddon
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Overview
The United States faces a new era of nuclear arms racing for which it is conceptually unprepared. Great power nuclear competition is seemingly returning with a vengeance as the post–Cold War international order morphs into something more uncertain, complicated, and dangerous. In this unstable third nuclear age, legacy nonproliferation and disarmament instruments designed for outmoded conditions are ill-equipped to tame the complex dynamics of a multipolar nuclear arms race centered on China, Russia, and the United States.
International relations scholar David A. Cooper proposes relearning, reviving, and adapting classic arms control theory and negotiating practices to steer the world away from threatening and destabilizing nuclear arms races. He surveys the history of nuclear arms control efforts, revisits strategic theory’s view of nuclear competition dynamics, and interviews US nuclear policy practitioners about both the past and the emerging era. To prepare for this third nuclear age, Cooper recommends adapting the Cold War’s classical paradigm of adversarial arms control for the contemporary landscape. Rather than prioritizing disarmament to eliminate nuclear weapons, this neoclassical approach would pursue pragmatic agreements to stabilize deterrence relationships among today’s nuclear rivals. Drawing on an extensive theoretical and practical study of the Cold War and its aftermath, Cooper distills relevant lessons that could inform the United States’ long-term efforts to navigate the unprecedented dangers of nuclear multipolarity.
Diverging from other recent books on the topic, Arms Control for the Third Nuclear Age provides analysts with a more hard-nosed strategic approach. In this very different era of great power rivalry, this book will be a must-read for scholars, students, and practitioners of nuclear arms control.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781647121310 |
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Publisher: | Georgetown University Press |
Publication date: | 10/01/2021 |
Pages: | 256 |
Sales rank: | 999,513 |
Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
Age Range: | 18 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
PrefaceAcknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Our Uncertain Nuclear Future: Navigating a Third Nuclear Age of Multipolar Competition
2. Cold War Theory Redux: Recalling a Hard-Nosed Concept of Adversarial Arms Control
3. From Theories to Treaties: Learning from the Cold War Negotiating Experience
4. A New Arms Race: Transitioning from Post–Cold War Denuclearization to Great-Power Nuclear Rivalry
5. Arms Control for the Third Nuclear Age: Adapting Old Ideas for New Times
Conclusion
List of Interviews
Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Author
What People are Saying About This
David Cooper offers a bold new perspective on arms control for the geopolitical and technological realities of the twenty-first century. He makes a major contribution to the most critical issue of international order, how arms control plays out in a changing global power system. This is a challenge that will not go away–and one that is addressed clearly in this important book.
Dr. David Cooper’s book is an important contribution to the nuclear policy debate at a time when the United States and its allies face renewed strategic competition from geopolitical rivals like Russia and China. He argues that the key to successfully managing future nuclear challenges may lie in re-learning important lessons from the past, especially the need to re-couple arms control policy with broader defense strategy and deterrence objectives. This book should be required reading for all students, teachers, and bipartisan practitioners of nuclear policy.
This groundbreaking book reimagines the theory and practice of arms control for the return of nuclear competition in an increasingly contested and multipolar world order. Written by a scholar who also brings extensive hands-on policy experience, the analysis is neither pie-in-the-sky nor overly technocratic. David Cooper situates the conceptual and practical complexities of arms control within broader strategy and geopolitics to reveal the daunting challenges that the United States faces and to provide a workable roadmap for using arms control to preserve stable deterence. I recommend this as essential reading for anyone who studies, practices, or cares about US national security.
This groundbreaking book reimagines the theory and practice of arms control for the return of nuclear competition in an increasingly contested and multipolar world order. Written by a scholar who also brings extensive hands-on policy experience, the analysis is neither pie-in-the-sky nor overly technocratic. David Cooper situates the conceptual and practical complexities of arms control within broader strategy and geopolitics to reveal the daunting challenges that the United States faces and to provide a workable roadmap for using arms control to preserve stable deterrence. I recommend this as essential reading for anyone who studies, practices, or cares about US national security.
This is one of the best books on deterrence, strategic issues, nuclear weapons, and arms control to appear in years. This work is critically important for all policymakers as they try to understand how to deal with the changing international security environment. The lessons of the Cold War provide the necessary historical education, and the discussion about the nuances and challenges of today’s network of nuclear adversaries, both large and small, will help them understand the critical nature and potential ripple effects of decisions related to America’s security. The stark reality is that the Cold War is back, as this book makes convincingly clear. The author, a recognized expert in the field, provides practical and reasonable recommendations for restarting arms control in today’s political environment.