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France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence
The legacy of World War II and the division of Eastern and Western Europe produced a radical asymmetry, and a variety of misgivings and misunderstandings, in French and German experiences of the nuclear age. At the same time, however, political actors in both nations continually labored to reconcile their differences and engage in productive strategic dialogue. Grounded in cutting-edge research and freshly discovered archival sources, France, Germany, and Nuclear Deterrence teases out the paradoxical nuclear interactions between France and Germany from 1954 to the present day.
The Global Nuclear Landscape
Like shifting sands of a desert, the global nuclear landscape changes every few years across its three main constituents - nuclear energy, non-proliferation and disarmament. Each of these has seen phases of cautious optimism, deep scepticism and outright pessimism over the last two decades. This book offers a bird’s eye view on all the three, even as the individual authors offer a worm’s eye view on each specific topic within the larger ambit. The first section of the book examines developments in the nuclear energy sector. A broad-brush scan of the contemporary drivers and challenges for nuclear energy at a global level, as also that of India, reveals a positive trend line. There is als...
Cosmos and Image in the Renaissance
Renaissance images could be real as well as linguistic. Human beings were often believed to be an image of the cosmos, and the sun an image of God. Kathryn Banks explores the implications of this for poetic language and argues that linguistic images were a powerful tool for rethinking cosmic conceptions. She reassesses the role of natural-philosophical poetry in France, focusing upon its most well-known and widely-read exponent, Guillaume de Saluste Du Bartas.Through a sustained analysis of Maurice Sceve's Delie , Banks also rethinks love lyric's oft-noted use of the beloved as image of the poet. Cosmos and Image makes an original contribution to our understanding of Renaissance thinking about the cosmic, the human, and the divine. It also proposes a mode of reading other Renaissance texts, and reflects at length upon the relation of 'literature' to history, to the history of science, and to political turmoil.
The First Frame
A unique account of the way architects, dramatists, and philosophers transformed theatre space in the eighteenth century.
The Consequences of American Nuclear Disarmament
This book is about the future of nuclear weapons, geopolitics, and strategy. It examines the legacy of nuclear weapons on US thinking about some concepts of strategy and geopolitics, namely deterrence, extended deterrence, alliances, and arms control. The purpose of this is to demonstrate just how fundamentally nuclear weapons have influenced American thinking about these concepts. It argues that, given the extent of nuclear weapons' influence on these concepts and the implications for international security, further reductions beyond current Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) levels, and the more absolute idea of nuclear disarmament, may not necessarily be prudent ideas. Nuclear weapons have contributed to the avoidance of major war between states, made alliances more credible and last longer, and have made arms control relatively easier to conceptualize and manage. As such, the author argues, these concepts may become even more difficult to manage in a world where nuclear weapons are marginalized.
Routledge Handbook on Cooperation, Interdependencies and Security in the Mediterranean
This Handbook provides an essential overview of the contemporary dynamics of the Mediterranean region. Conceptualising the Mediterranean as both a socio-cultural area and a geopolitical entity, it considers the basin both as a whole and as a set of interacting subregions. Established scholars offer new perspectives and approaches from international history, postcolonial studies, migration studies, geography, private international law and public international law, environmental and tourism studies, to reappraise the long-term trends and ruptures that shape security, interdependence, and cooperation. These contributions explain the Mediterranean’s long-established role as a crossroads, and d...
Continent by Default
Introduction : geopolitics without power politics -- From a strategy by default to a grand strategy? : in the beginning was enlargement -- The limits of enlargement : the end of certainties -- Peace, war, and confetti : an elusive security policy -- Boundaries and borderlands : from inside out? -- A crisis in the making? : the refugee crisis -- Competitive decadence? : Russia and the EU -- Conclusion : the waning geography of influence
Résistance et Dissuasion
Il peut paraître surprenant d’accoler les deux termes « Résistance » et « Dissuasion » à une époque, la Seconde Guerre mondiale, où la dissuasion nucléaire française n’existait pas encore. Toutefois, les racines de celle-ci remontent bien à ce conflit, comme en témoignent le caractère pionnier des travaux scientifiques de Frédéric Joliot et de son équipe au Collège de France, ainsi que le rôle clé joué par les atomiciens de la France libre. Une leçon essentielle s’imposa à l’issue de la guerre : l’existence de la France en tant que pays libre ne va pas de soi. C’est dans cet « esprit de Résistance » que se poursuit l’aventure atomique française, avec,...
Histoire de la dissuasion nucléaire
Dissuasion nucléaire, dissémination des armes atomiques, désarmement et non-prolifération... Cet ouvrage de synthèse présente les faits, les principaux acteurs, les textes fondateurs et les recherches historiques les plus récentes pour mettre en perspective l'histoire de l'armement nucléaire des origines à nos jours. Comment les découvertes initiales dans le domaine de l'énergie atomique se sont-elles concrétisées des décennies plus tard par des armements d'une puissance inconnue ? Comment est-on passé d'une arme " super-conventionnelle " à une arme " politique ", visant à empêcher un agresseur potentiel de passer à l'acte ? Parler d'arme de " non-emploi " est-il un contre...
