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"Summary:Employing a careful and nuanced discussion, Elli Louka explores here the emergence of new threshold nuclear weapon states (TNWS), transparency standards, and precautionary preemption"

"The author gives us his account from the centre of the nuclear fray. Readers will sit at the dinner table with Iraqi officials in Baghdad, listening as they bleakly predict the coming war. They will eavesdrop on the exchanges between UN inspectors and U.S. officials observing the behind-the-scenes formulation of an approach to foreign policy and diplomacy that would come to characterise the Bush administration. We gain a feel for the difficulty of the IAEA inspectors' struggle to maintain objectivity when trust has been broken, or when the press - or governments - are playing fast and loose with the fac"

"Helmut Schmidt is the neglected chancellor of modern German history, overshadowed by the greats-Bismarck, Adenauer, Brandt, and Kohl. This book retrieves Schmidts true significance as a pivotal figure who helped reshape the global order during the crisis-ridden 1970s. This major reinterpretation, based on detailed research in Schmidts private papers and numerous archives in Europe and America, reveals him as a leader equally skilled in economics and security and adept at personal diplomacy, who dared to act as a double interpreter between the superpowers during the nadir of the Cold War. Schmidt was no mere crisis manager: in fact he brought to the chancellorship a depth of reflection, evident in two decades of writings and speeches that justifies considering him an intellectual statesman on a par with Henry Kissinger. His achievements were prodigious. Hailed as the world economist, Schmidt helped create the G7 forum for global economic governance and the European Monetary System at a time when capitalism seemed on the rocks. And as the strategist of balance, he designed NATOs dual-track response to the crisis caused by the massive Soviet arms build-up of Euro-missiles. This decision, Kristina Spohr argues, played a crucial part in holding together the Western alliance and paved the way to defusing the Cold War in Europe. Schmidt brought his country to the top table of world politics-what he unashamedly called Weltpolitik-as an equal of the victor powers. It was through his chancellorship that West Germany came of age on the global stage."

"In 1989-90 the map of Europe was transformed peacefully-without a war, unlike other great ruptures of the international order such as 1815, 1870, 1918, and 1945. What role did international summitry play in the dénouement of the cold war? So far scholars have focused on long-term systemic factors, Gorbachevs reform agenda, or the impact in 1989 of people power. This major multinational study, based on archives from both sides of the Iron Curtain, adopts a novel perspective by exploring the contribution of international statecraft to the dissolution of Europes bipolar order. This is done through the examination of key summit meetings from 1970 to 1990 across three phases Thawing the cold war, living with the cold war, and transcending the cold war and in three main strands: the superpowers and arms control, their triangular relationship with China, and the German question. The threads are drawn together in a sweeping analytical conclusion. The book includes fascinating insights into key statesman such as Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan, Leonid Brezhnev and Mikhail Gorbachev, Willy Brandt and Helmut Kohl, Zhou Enlai and Deng Xiaoping, both as thinkers about the international system and also practitioners of summit bargaining. Particular attention is devoted to the cultural dimensions of summitry, as performative acts for the media and as engagement with the other across ideological divides. Written in lively prose, this book is essential reading for those interested in modern history, contemporary politics, and international relations addressing issues that still shape the world today."

"Kasus penerimaan terbatas ASEAN dalam norma pengaturan senjata kecil dan senjata ringan menunjukkan peristiwa kontra-tren dari tren penerimaan norma internasional dalam masalah tersebut. Penelitian ini ditujukan untuk menganalisis kondisi-kondisi yang mendasari penerimaan terbatas ASEAN terhadap norma pengaturan senjata kecil dengan berusaha menelusuri proses mikro yang terjadi pada konteks struktur domestik ASEAN sebagai refleksi terhadap dinamika pengaturannya pada tingkat kawasan. Dengan menggunakan metode multi-value Qualitative Comparative Analysis (mvQCA), penelitian ini menemukan bahwa strategic culture dan struktur politik domestik berpengaruh secara signifikan dalam memungkinkan terjadinya saluran normatif bagi resonansi norma pengaturan senjata kecil. Sementara itu, karena adanya perbedaan kompetensi normatif di antara negara-negara ASEAN dan adanya cognitive prior ASEAN yang memiliki kecenderungan untuk menjadi organisasi regional bercorak ?sovereignty-oriented?, ASEAN membatasi penerimaan norma ini dengan melakukan lokalisasi norma pengaturan senjata kecil di kawasan.

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ASEAN cases of limited acceptance in small arms control norm represents a counter-trend event of the widely accepted international norms in the matter. This study aimed to analyze the conditions underlying the limited acceptance of ASEAN towards small arms control norms by seeking to explore the micro processes that occur in the context of the domestic structure of ASEAN as a reflection of the dynamics at the regional level. By using the multi-value method Qualitative Comparative Analysis (mvQCA), the study found that strategic culture and domestic political structures affect significantly for the channel which allows the setting of norms resonance for small arms control norms. Meanwhile, because of differences in normative competence among ASEAN countries and the ASEAN?s cognitive priors which leans toward a tendency to become a regional 'sovereignty-oriented' organization, ASEAN limits the acceptance of this norm by setting norms localization of small arms control norms in the region"