ABOUT THIS BOOK

A collection of original essays dealing with many aspects of the complex problems of arms control, this volume provides an understanding of the political, strategic, technological, and bureaucratic constraints affecting the development of arms control policies by major powers. Among the diverse subjects examined are American and Soviet interests in arms control, and the rationale for arms control in alternative international systems based upon either bipolarity or multipolarity.

The volume also includes a discussion of the critical technological factors which have important implications for the Strategic Arms Limitations Talks (SALT), an examination of structural change in the international system, the emergence of additional centers of power, and the implications of SALT for would-be nuclear powers.

Contributors: Robert R. Bowie, J. I. Coffey, James E. Dougherty, Wynfred Joshua, Geoffrey Kemp, Takeshi Muramatsu, George H. Quester, Robert A. Scalapino, Ian Smart, William R. Van Cleave, Thomas W. Wolfe, and the editors.

REVIEWS

“A fascinating book, unusually consistent and of high quality; the separate contributions and the summaries of the discussions bear many marks of careful and thorough preparation; a business-like minimum of jargon and a bearable level of wishful model-making enhance its appeal. . . . The last section is a summary of what the 1972 agreements comprise, with a brief but very perceptive analysis. . . . Though it is principally concerned with SALT, [the book] is careful to avoid only super-power preoccupations and perspectives.”
—International Affairs

“This is an important book. . . . Heretical thoughts on stability, on the political meaning of the arms race, on important asymmetries between the superpowers, upon the dangers and opportunities of strategic tripolarity, and upon nuclear proliferation, are scattered throughout the length of this book. It deserves to be widely read.”
—International Journal

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Contents

List of Tables

Preface

Introduction: The Politics of Arms Control or How to Make Nuclear Weapons Wither Away / W. W. Rostow

Part I

The Rationale for Superpower Arms Control / Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.

Soviet Interests in SALT / Thomas W. Wolfe

American Interests in the Limitation of Strategic Armaments / J. I. Coffey

The Rationale for Superpower Arms Control Agreements: Conflicting Representations / Symposium Discussion

Part II

Technological Change and the Strategic Arms Race / Symposium Discussion

Part III

The Bargaining Aspects of Arms Control: The SALT Experience / Robert R. Bowie

The American-Soviet-Chinese Triangle: Implications for Arms Control / Robert A. Scalapino

Arms Control for a Five-Power World / William R. Kintner

Dynamics of the Bargaining Process in a Bureaucratic Age / Symposium Discussion

Part IV

SALT and European Nuclear Forces / Geoffrey Kemp and Ian Smart

SALT and the Middle East / Wynfred Joshua

Implications of SALT Outcome for Potential "Nth" Powers: Israel, India, and Others / George H. Quester

Japan's Choice / Takeshi Muramatsu

SALT, Proliferation, and International Security / Symposium Discussion

Part V

Implications of Success or Failure of SALT / William R. Van Cleave

SALT and the Future of International Politics / James E. Dougherty

Implications of Success or Failure of SALT for International Security / Symposium Discussion

Part VI

The Strategic Arms Limitation Agreements of 1972: Implications for International Security / William R. Kintner and Robert L. Pfaltzgraff, Jr.

Appendix: SALT Agreements

List of Abbreviations

Glossary

Biographical Notes

Index

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