Prospects for Peacemaking: A Citizen's Guide to Safer Nuclear Strategy

Cleveland, Harlan and Lincoln P. Bloomfield (editors)

ISBN 10: 0262031310 / ISBN 13: 9780262031318

Published by MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 1987

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BD6 - A tight, clean, sound copy with very minor overall shelf wear with the dust jacket endflaps glued to the front and back fixed endpapers plus there are the usual library stamps, label, and pocket on the top outside paper edges, the copyright page, and the back free endpaper. The dust jacket shows only very minor overall shelf wear with the front and back endflaps glued to the fixed endpapers plus it is still in the original library mylar sleeve. An anthology of articles presenting ways to generate creative interaction between citizens and specialists, in any community, in order to open public policy issues of national security and strategic policy to involvement and participation by informed citizens. The contributors include Marshall Shulman, John Marshall Lee, Michael Nacht, Jane M. O. Sharp, Lincoln P. Bloomfield, and Dean Rusk. Endnotes, about the authors, indexed, 159p. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Prospects for Peacemaking: A Citizen's Guide to Safer Nuclear Strategy
• Publisher: MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
• Publication Date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262031310
• ISBN 13: 9780262031318
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Book Type: Ex-Library
• Seller catalogs:
  • Movements & Organizations
  • History: U.S.::U.S. Politics
  • Movements & Organizations::Reform Movements

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Synopsis

Prospects for Peacemaking provides a genuinely fresh look at embedded assumptions about national security. It clears the way for a security policy based less on outmoded premises and more on a purposeful strategy for peace in a nuclear world. And it demonstrates one model of a creative interaction between citizens and specialists, one that can be replicated in any community.

"To the village square must go the essential facts about atomic weapons," Albert Einstein wrote in 1946. "From there must come America's voice." The seven essays in Prospects for Peacemaking take up Einstein's challenge - even more urgent today - by demystifying the criti cal issues of war, peace, and national security and opening the way for informed citizen involvement in these issues.

The opening chapter explains why we are currently at a good point for engaging in the process of rethinking American strategic policy. Those that follow outline the basic premises of the current relations between the United States and the Soviet Union; the way the military thinks about arms and arms control; the question of whether negotiations can ever keep up with technology; the European perspective on arms control; and the special problem of managing crisis situations. The book concludes with an essay by Dean Rusk on diplomacy in the nuclear era.

Prospects for Peacemaking grew out of "the Minnesota experiment," an extraordinary year long process of dialogue between experts in the arms-control community and public citizens, sponsored by the University of Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs. Harlan Cleveland is Professor of Public Affairs and Dean of the Institute. Lincoln P. Bloomfield is Professor of Political Science at MIT, and an adjunct professor at the Humphrey Institute.

Synopsis

Reexamines U.S. nuclear policy, discusses U.S.-Soviet relations, arms control and deterrence, and suggests a strategy for ensuring peace.