Technology, strategy and arms control /
Technology, strategy and arms control /
edited by Wolfram F. Hanrieder
- Boulder : Westview Press, c1986
- x, 162 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
U.S.-Soviet Negotiations and the Arm Race: A Historical Review -- The Nuclear Superpower Relationship: Political and Strategic Implications -- Integrating Arms Control and the Federal Republic -- Assured Strategic Stupidity: The Quest for Ballistic Missile Defense -- Strategic Arms Limitation Negotiations -- Technological Development, The Military Balance, and Arms Control -- Transforming International Security -- A Christian Response to the Arm Race.
The essays collected in this anthology are based on lectures delivered at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), during the academic year 1984-1985. The lectures were part of the newly established Program on Global Peace and Security, through which UCSB seeks to augment its existing academic programs with a public dialogue on some of the most pressing problems that stand in the way of achieving a more peaceful and just world order. The primary purpose of this program is to enable our undergraduate students to complete their formal major by pursuing an organized plan of study concerning global peace and security issues and to help them examine these issues from a variety of perspectives-from different academic disciplines, from different political orientations, and from the points of view of different parts of the world. Beyond that, the program aims to reach a wider audience—on and off campus-and foster the reasoned discussion of problems that affect, directly or indirectly, our daily lives and local communities, although their origins and possibilities for solution may be distant in both time and place. Arranging for a series of public lectures, and publishing the essays that resulted from them, is part of this effort. Avoiding nuclear war is the most urgent task of our age. For this reason, the lectures during the program's first year focused on issues of the East-West military balance, its technological and political dynamics, and its implications for national security policy and arms control. But we do not intend to define the issues of peace and security narrowly. The central theme for the program's second year will be "World Peace and the International Economic Order," in order to address such topics as the North-South conflict, global and regional trade and monetary regimes, and the role of international organizations in strengthening the economic and sociopolitical foundations of peace and security.
813301785
MILITARY READINESS
UA 10 .T43 1986
Includes bibliographical references and index.
U.S.-Soviet Negotiations and the Arm Race: A Historical Review -- The Nuclear Superpower Relationship: Political and Strategic Implications -- Integrating Arms Control and the Federal Republic -- Assured Strategic Stupidity: The Quest for Ballistic Missile Defense -- Strategic Arms Limitation Negotiations -- Technological Development, The Military Balance, and Arms Control -- Transforming International Security -- A Christian Response to the Arm Race.
The essays collected in this anthology are based on lectures delivered at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), during the academic year 1984-1985. The lectures were part of the newly established Program on Global Peace and Security, through which UCSB seeks to augment its existing academic programs with a public dialogue on some of the most pressing problems that stand in the way of achieving a more peaceful and just world order. The primary purpose of this program is to enable our undergraduate students to complete their formal major by pursuing an organized plan of study concerning global peace and security issues and to help them examine these issues from a variety of perspectives-from different academic disciplines, from different political orientations, and from the points of view of different parts of the world. Beyond that, the program aims to reach a wider audience—on and off campus-and foster the reasoned discussion of problems that affect, directly or indirectly, our daily lives and local communities, although their origins and possibilities for solution may be distant in both time and place. Arranging for a series of public lectures, and publishing the essays that resulted from them, is part of this effort. Avoiding nuclear war is the most urgent task of our age. For this reason, the lectures during the program's first year focused on issues of the East-West military balance, its technological and political dynamics, and its implications for national security policy and arms control. But we do not intend to define the issues of peace and security narrowly. The central theme for the program's second year will be "World Peace and the International Economic Order," in order to address such topics as the North-South conflict, global and regional trade and monetary regimes, and the role of international organizations in strengthening the economic and sociopolitical foundations of peace and security.
813301785
MILITARY READINESS
UA 10 .T43 1986