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This book, first published in 1981, is a comprehensive examination of the main theoretical, methodological and empirical approaches to the study of the military in modernising political systems, in socialist and non-socialist countries. It analyses civil-military relations in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and China.

This book, first published in 1984, carefully examine the political debate surrounding nuclear weapons and superpower polices in Cold War Western Europe. It examines Soviet domestic and foreign policy, economic and military practice, with the aim of understanding and countering the Soviet threat to Western Europe.

This book, first published in 1985, examines the problem of nationality in the Soviet empire. Nationality issues affect many of the critical domestic and foreign policy questions that faced the Soviet leadership. This book analyses this environment and the forces at work within it.

This book, first published in 1981, examines the influences affecting Soviet military thinking planning and theory in the later Cold War. It discusses comparative doctrines, cultural differences, arms control and specific security challenges between East and West.

This book, first published in 1990, examines the relationship between the Soviet Union and the Western Alliance at a time of great changes. Experts on a range of topics analyse the relationship from both the Soviet perspective, including the impact of Gorbachev, and from the standpoint of NATO.

This book, first published in 1981, is an analysis of the Soviet Union's military strategy, taking in both sides of the 'hawks' and 'doves' views of the USSR's intentions. It examines the Soviet approach to nuclear war, defence and deterrence in the nuclear age and the calculation of risk in the use of the military instrument.

This book, first published in 1988, analyses the interests and activities of the Soviet Union in the northern Atlantic. It focuses on the growth in exploration and exploitation of resources and to the problems presented by jurisdictional disputes. The responses of NATO, the United States and the Nordic countries are examined in detail.

This book, first published in 1987, examines the defence forces of Western Europe and assesses Europe's capacity to defend itself as the 1980s saw the Cold War balance of power shift towards the Soviet Union. Soviet forces were greatly superior to NATO's, and this book analyses the NATO response and capabilities.

This book, first published in 1986, is a major study of semialignment and a review of the individual nations within NATO to which the model could be applied. It analyses the phenomenon, and the possibility that it weakened the credibility of NATO deterrence and the defence posture versus the Soviet Union.

This book, first published in 1982, examines the crisis of detente in Europe, the crisis in arms control, and the heightening of tensions within NATO, and analyses the central precepts of Western policy and thought in these areas. These crises are examined in terms of the trends, thought and action in the area of Western security.

This book, first published in 1993, is an analytical review that discusses the changes in the international security policies of the USA and USSR at the end of the Cold War. A distinctive feature of this work is the detailed analysis of competing Russian views concerning arms control agreements and Russian military reforms.

This book, first published in 1991, is the cumulative result of a long period of research by qualified experts in an attempt to analyse the legal and scientific problems of arriving at definitions in the task of preventing an arms race in outer space.

This book, first published in 1990, examines the theories on 'nonoffensive' or 'nonprovocative' defence that arose at the end of the Cold War. The debate around the theories is analysed, including the claims that nonoffensive defence would lead to conventional stability, security at lower levels of armaments, and peace and stability.

This book, first published in 1982, analyses the prospects of the Cold War superpowers arms race spilling into outer space. A SIPRI-organized symposium in 1981 discussed the consequences of the militarization of outer space, as well as further arms control and disarmament measures.

This book, first published in 1986, examines Moscow's military buildup in the global context; itsimpact from the perspective of China, Korea, Japan, the nations of ASEAN, Australia and New Zealand; and assesses the European experience with the Soviet nuclear threat and examines its implications for Asia.

This book, first published in 1983, analyses the technical and political developments in the two decades after the 1972 Soviet-American ABM treaty. It signposts the route for discussion of the ABM question and examines the dangerous tendency to conduct the debate of the 1980s with the technical and political assumptions of the 1960s.

This book, first published in 1981, examines Cold War developments within particular nations, fields of warfare and areas of political-military interaction. The balance between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces is also closely analysed.

This book, first published in 1984, analyses the critically important Cold War issue of the Soviet national security decision-making process dealing with weapons acquisition, arms control and the application of military force. It conceptualises Soviet decision-making for national security from Stalinist antecedents to 1980s modes.

This book, first published in 1989, analyses Western and Soviet perceptions of each other's military thoughts and doctrines, a key part of the Cold War, where both sides planned to both win a possible conflict, and to avoid one. It demonstrates that both sides judged each other's military profile on the basis of political preconceptions.

This book, first published in 1989, analyses the effect that interdependence has had on the defence industrial base, concentrating on the ongoing dilemma over the degree to which Western nations should subject their defence industrial bases to the forces of economic interdependence.

This book, first published in 1985, analyses the choices made by NATO's northern allies during the 1970s and 80s, as well as the factors that produced these choices. Each country study investigates defence policy priorities, and look at the way in which disputes have been played out in domestic political life.

This book, first published in 1992, examines the changing post-Cold War changing patterns of security in Europe by analysing the major themes, the primary security organisations and the policies of countries at the forefront of the security debate.

This book, first published in 1991, examines the changes to security and intelligence agencies envisioned in the uncertain world at the end of the Cold War. While the central focus is on the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, there are also comparative studies of the British, Soviet, American and Australian systems.

This book, first published in 1985, analyses the polarization of popular opinion over NATO defence policies during the latter years of the Cold War. In many countries, the domestic consensus that once supported Allied policies came close to collapsing, and this study examines the question of the democratization of defence policy.

This book, first published in 1986, analyses a number of emerging, enduring and neglected issues that affected European security and the stability of the Atlantic Alliance at the end of the Cold War. It provides a comprehensive review of the major political, social and economic issues that shaped the course of European security.

This book, first published in 1985, examines the questions of European security that lie at the heart of the confrontation between the superpowers. It concentrates on ways of achieving defence by conventional means rather than a reliance on nuclear or chemical weapons, and at the same time focuses on possible force reductions.

This book, first published in 1989, is a comprehensive examination of the profound impact of World War II on Soviet military affairs. It systematically assesses the costs and lessons of the war and their substantial impact on Soviet military and Party leaders in the Cold War era and particularly in the 1980s.

This book, first published in 1994, analyses the changing world order at the end of the Cold War. Using case studies from around the world, the authors diagnose the problems caused by increasing militarism, and analyse the links between conflict, poverty, development and the environment.

This book, first published in 1993, examines the security concerns of the Central European countries in the immediate aftermath of the Cold War. The collapse of the Soviet Union brought considerable uncertainty and instability to its satellite states, now free from Moscow's influence.