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Four Seminal Thinkers in International Theory: Machiavelli, Grotius, Kant, and Mazzini
Martin Wight

Oxford University Press, USA, 2005

Martin Wight was perhaps the most profound thinker in international relations of his generation. In a discipline for too long mesmerized by the pseudo-science of the historically and philosophically illiterate, his work stands out like a beacon. Yet it is only in the decades since his death that his achievement has attained its true recognition. Of the first volume of posthumously published lectures-- International Theory: The Three ...

NATO transformed the Alliance's new roles in international security (SuDoc Y 3.P 31:2 N 81)

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David S. Yost

United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998

Required reading for serious scholars of European security
Professor Yost as per custom provides a lucid, innovative, and extremely well-documented account of the future of NATO--an issue which will preoccupy US presidents in their essential leadership role of the Atlantic Alliance as it rediscovers its essential purpose of forging a just and lasting peace, accompanied by appropriate security guarantees, for the whole of Europe. Together with Sean ...

Soviet Ballistic Missile Defense and the Western Alliance
David S. Yost

Harvard University Press, 1988

This is a study of the strategic challenges that Soviet ballistic missile defense (BMD) programs may pose for the Western alliance. David Yost suggests that the challenges for Western policy stem partly from Soviet military programs, Soviet arms control policies, and Soviet public diplomacy campaigns, and partly from the West's own intra-alliance disagreements and lack of consensus about Western security requirements. By reviewing the ...