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Tag: Soviet Union

Roundtable 9-3 on Barriers to Bioweapons: The Challenges of Expertise and Weapons Development

October 3, 2016December 24, 2020 By Lynn Eden, Philip R. Egert, Jacques E. C. Hymans, Alexander H. Montgomery, Alex Spelling, Sonia Ben Ouargrham-Gormley

Sonia Ben Ouagrham-Gormley’s outstanding Barriers to Bioweapons demonstrates that while it may be relatively easy to pick your poison, there are very significant barriers to manufacturing it. Her main argument, as our reviewers so clearly explain, is that making bioweapons—that is, ‘weaponizing’ biological agents such as anthrax, smallpox, plague, and many others—has been far more…

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Roundtable 8-19 on Near and Distant Neighbors: A New History of Soviet Intelligence

August 1, 2016November 20, 2019 By Robert Jervis, Paul R. Pillar, Robert Pringle, David R. Stone, Jonathan Haslam

If intelligence has now received sufficient attention so that it is no longer the hidden dimension of international politics, Soviet intelligence still fits this categorization. Our three reviewers welcome Jonathan Haslam’s lively overview of the subject and commend him for drawing on so many of the documents which, although revealing as far as they go,…

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Roundtable 8-14 on Democracy Promotion, National Security and Strategy: Foreign Policy under the Reagan Administration

May 23, 2016November 20, 2019 By Thomas Maddux, Matthew Alan Hill, Michael McKoy, Tom Nichols, Lauren Turek, James Graham Wilson, Robert Pee

In Democracy Promotion, National Security and Strategy: Foreign Policy under the Reagan Administration, Robert Pee explores the United States’ attempts to promote democracy abroad during the Reagan administration. The title of Pee’s book captures a central challenge Washington faced with this issue not only during the 1980s but also throughout the Cold War after 1945….

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Roundtable 4-6, “American Force: Dangers, Delusions, and Dilemmas in National Security”

November 5, 2012January 28, 2016 By ISSF editor

The community of national security scholars benefits whenever Richard K. Betts publishes a new article or book, because his work is consistently well researched, gracefully written, thoughtful, and provocative. I find this work to be no exception and said so on the jacket cover when the book was published. The distinguished reviewers gathered here agree…

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Roundtable 3-11 on Worse than a Monolith: Alliance Politics and Problems of Coercive Diplomacy in Asia

March 7, 2012September 10, 2015 By H-Diplo

Thomas Christensen has written an important book in which he examines several key episodes during the Cold War in Asia, including the Korean War, the Taiwan Strait crises of 1954–55 and 1958, and the Vietnam War. In Worse than a Monolith, Christensen uses these Cold War flashpoints to test and refine existing theories of alliance…

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Article Review 1 on “Same As It Ever Was: Nuclear Alarmism, Proliferation, and the Cold War”

March 18, 2010October 5, 2015 By H-Diplo

Not only is Francis Gavin one of those rare individuals today who actually remembers the Cold War, but he believes it is relevant to today’s concerns. In this bright and engaging article, he examines several myths concerning the Cold War and nuclear weapons and the alarm they have so routinely inspired.    

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