Product Description: Ronald Reagan has left office and the fate of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) is still undecided. This book provides an essential basis for evaluating the policy choices that the new U.S. leaders will face with respect to SDI through the 1990s...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this volume is to explicate the key security policy issues raised by the SDI programme and to explore their likely development in the early 1990s. One of the Aspen Strategy Group publications, the issues discussed will figure in debates on future directions for SDI policy, and each is examined in the chapters of the book...read more

Analyzes ten possible alternatives to deterrence as a way of avoiding nuclear war ranging from unilateral disarmament to world federalism, in an attempt to form a more effective disarmament plan for the superpowers

Discusses the methods of moral reasoning, the evaluation of moral arguments, nuclear war theory, the policy of nuclear deterrence, and the effect of nuclear weapons on nonnuclear powers

Product Description: This book addresses the issue of whether nation-states can form regional islands of peace in a turbulent international system. It carefully describes the problems and prospects in forming common markets and security communities among neighboring states...read more

This study explores in detail the probable paths to nuclear conflict, explains how changes in forces, technology, and political life will influence the likelihood of a nuclear war, and proposes specific recommendations to reduce the risk of nuclear war

Product Description: This collection, marking the 25th anniversary of Harvard's Center for International Affairs, represents central issues for research in international affairs during this decade. Some issues carry over from themes that have been central to the Center's research programs since its founding; other issues represent the evolution of new areas of interest and concern...read more

Essays analyze the process of the development and management of the American government's policies for dealing with the Soviet Union

Product Description: Examines the role of moral reasoning in America foreign policy. Discusses first the key question of whether foreign policy is a fit domain for ethical reasoning. Examines the difficulty in judging moral arguments and argues for a three-dimensional approach which weighs motives, means and consequences, rather than judgments based on motives or consequences alone...read more