Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- About the authors -- Series editor's preface -- Introduction -- 1 The atomic age and the new knowledge economy -- 2 Limits of war and rationality in the thermonuclear age -- 3 Security and liberty --…
What is a realist response to nuclear weapons? This book is animated by the idea that contemporary attempts to confront the challenge of nuclear weapons and other global security problems would benefit from richer historical foundations. Returning to the decade of deep, thermonu…
This timely, comprehensive and interdisciplinary volume advances an original argument about the complex roots and multiple politics of globality. It shows that technological innovations and decisive developments since 1945 - from the nuclear revolution to anthropogenic climate c…