1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462116503321

Titolo

Security assurances and nuclear nonproliferation [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Jeffrey W. Knopf

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8491-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KnopfJeffrey W

Disciplina

327.1/747

Soggetti

Nuclear nonproliferation

National security

Security, International

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Security assurances : initial hypotheses / Jeffrey W. Knopf -- The psychology of assurance : an emotional tale / Janice Gross Stein -- The role of security assurances in the nuclear nonproliferation regime / John Simpson -- Libya, nuclear rollback, and the role of negative and positive security assurances / Wyn Q. Bowen -- Security assurances and Iran : assessment and re-conceptualization / Jim Walsh -- Maintaining Japan's non-nuclear identity : the role of U.S. security assurances / Yuki Tatsumi -- Infusing commitment with credibility : the role of security assurances in cementing the U.S.-ROK alliance / Scott Snyder and Joyce Lee -- Assessing the role of security assurances in dealing with North Korea / John S. Park -- The United States and Swedish plans to build the bomb, 1945-1968 / Thomas Jonter -- The "model" of Ukrainian denuclearization / Sherman W. Garnett.

Sommario/riassunto

While policy makers and scholars have long devoted considerable attention to strategies like deterrence, which threaten others with unacceptable consequences, such threat-based strategies are not always the best option. In some cases, a state may be better off seeking to give others a greater sense of security, rather than by holding their security at risk. The most prominent use of these security assurances has been in conjunction with efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear



weapons.Ongoing concerns about the nuclear activities of countries like Iran and North Korea, and the pos

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457565703321

Autore

Benvenisti Meron <1934->

Titolo

Son of cypresses [[electronic resource] ] : memories, reflections, and regrets from a political life / / Meron Benvenisti ; translated by Maxine Kaufman-Lacusta in consultation with Michael Kaufman-Lacusta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley Los Angeles, : University of California Press, 2006

ISBN

0-520-93001-0

1-4337-0965-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

956.9405092

B

Soggetti

Arab-Israeli conflict - Influence

Arab-Israeli conflict - 1993- - Peace

Jews - Israel

Sephardim - Israel

Electronic books.

Israel Politics and government 20th century

Israel Ethnic relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- 1. A Founding Father -- 2. Delayed Filial Rebellion -- 3. Jerusalemites -- 4. "The Ceremony of Innocence Is Drowned . . ." -- 5. The Morning After -- 6. Separation and Disengagement -- 7. Descriptions and Prescriptions -- Epilogue -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"Now that I am seventy years of age, it is my prerogative to offer a summing up," says Meron Benvenisti, internationally known author and columnist, Jerusalem native, and scion of Israel's founders. Born in Palestine in 1934 to a Sephardic father and an Ashkenazi mother, Benvenisti has enjoyed an unusual vantage point from which to



consider his homeland's conflicts and controversies. Throughout his long and provocative career as a scholar, an elected official, and a respected journalist, he has remained intimately involved with Israel's social and political development. Part memoir and part political polemic, Son of the Cypresses threads Benvenisti's own story through the story of Israel. The result is a vivid, sharply drawn eyewitness account of pre-state Jerusalem and Israel's early years. He memorably sets the scene by recalling his father's emotional journey from Jewish Salonika in 1913 to Palestine, with all its attendant euphoria and frustration, and his father's pioneer dedication to inculcating Israeli youth with a "native's" attachment to the homeland. In describing the colorful and lively Jerusalem in which he grew up, Benvenisti recalls the many challenges faced by new Jewish immigrants, who found themselves not only in conflict with the Arab population but also with each other as Sephardim and Ashkenazim. He revisits his own public disagreements with both Zionists and Palestinians and shares indelible memories such as his boyhood experiences of the 1948 War. In remembering his life as an Israeli sabra, Benvenisti offers a vivid record of the historical roots of the conflict that persists today.