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Strategy, Danger, and the New Power Politics
Times Books
November 2012
On Sale: November 13, 2012
320 pages
ISBN: 080509430X
EAN: 9780805094305
Kindle: B0085UEQG6
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Non-Fiction Political
A leading international security strategist offers a
compelling new way to "think about the
unthinkable." The cold war ended more than two
decades ago, and with its end came a reduction in the threat
of nuclear weapons—a luxury that we can no longer indulge.
It’s not just the threat of Iran getting the bomb or North
Korea doing something rash; the whole complexion of global
power politics is changing because of the reemergence of
nuclear weapons as a vital element of statecraft and power
politics. In short, we have entered the second nuclear
age. In this provocative and agenda-setting book, Paul
Bracken of Yale University argues that we need to pay
renewed attention to nuclear weapons and how their presence
will transform the way crises develop and escalate. He draws
on his years of experience analyzing defense strategy to
make the case that the United States needs to start thinking
seriously about these issues once again, especially as new
countries acquire nuclear capabilities. He walks us through
war-game scenarios that are all too realistic, to show how
nuclear weapons are changing the calculus of power politics,
and he offers an incisive tour of the Middle East, South
Asia, and East Asia to underscore how the United States must
not allow itself to be unprepared for managing such
crises. Frank in its tone and farsighted in its
analysis, The Second Nuclear Age is the essential
guide to the new rules of international politics.
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