Books in the Studies in Security and International Affairs series

Offers a book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime. These essays show that attitudes on nonproliferation depend on a ""complex, contingent decision calculus"", as states gauge how their actions within the regime will affect trade, regional standing, and other interests.

Covering a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines. Arms control policies of all of the key established and rising state actors are considered.

Vasquez writes that, while oil busts and civil wars are common, the tension over oil in the Amazon has played out differently, in a way inextricable from the region itself, and she argues that each case should be analyzed with attention to its specific sociopolitical and economic context.

Vlad Kravtsov argues that recent debates about the nature of authority in Putin's Russia and Mbeki's South Africa have resulted in a set of unique ideas on the cardinal goals of the state. This is the first book to explore how these consensual ideas have shaped health governance and impinged on norm diffusion processes.

The spread of weapons of mass destruction poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security in modern times. This volume examines challenges faced by the international community and proposes directions for national and international policy making and lawmaking.

Just War scholarship has adapted to contemporary crises and situations. But its adaptation has spurned debate and conversation. Caron E. Gentry and Amy E. Eckert argue that the tradition needs to be updated to deal with substate actors within the realm of legitimate authority, private military companies, and the moral difference between the use of conventional and nuclear weapons.

The spread of weapons of mass destruction poses one of the greatest threats to international peace and security in modern times - the specter of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons looms over relations among many countries. This volume examines challenges faced by the international community.

Our focus on the relative handful of countries with nuclear weapons keeps us from asking the question: Why do so many more states not have such weapons? This book argues that in addition to understanding a state's security environment, we must appreciate the social forces that influence how states conceptualize the value of nuclear weapons.

In the last decade the world has witnessed a rise in women's participation in terrorism. Women, Gender, and Terrorism explores women's relationship with terrorism, with a keen eye on the political, gender, racial, and cultural dynamics of the contemporary world.

A collection of essays, which argue that the Bush Doctrine, as outlined in the September 2002 National Security Strategy of the United States, squandered enormous military and economic resources, diminished American power, and undermined America's moral reputation as a defender of democratic values and human rights.

A collection of essays that shows how borders affect the groups living along them and the nature of the land and people abutting on and divided by boundaries.

A collection of essays that shows how borders affect the groups living along them and the nature of the land and people abutting on and divided by boundaries.

Investigates how states decide to employ cyber in military and intelligence operations against other states and how rational those decisions are. Aaron Franklin Brantly contextualizes cyber decision-making processes into a systematic expected utility-rational choice approach to provide a mathematical understanding of the use of cyber weapons.

Explores the emergence of international cooperation beyond the core global nonproliferation treaties. The contributors examine why these other cooperative nonproliferation mechanisms have emerged, assess their effectiveness, and ask how well the different pieces of the global nonproliferation regime complex fit together.