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Wednesday, May 26, 2010

What to read on Nuclear Proliferation?

Few topics in international relations consistently attract as much academic and policy interest as nuclear proliferation. The literature on the subject tends to focus on four central questions: Why do states seek nuclear weapons? How do they acquire the components necessary to build them? What are the consequences of proliferation? And how can nuclear weapons be kept out of the hands of nonstate actors? These issues will remain salient in the years to come, as the North Korean and Iranian nuclear programs advance, the threat of nuclear terrorism persists, and the full implications of the type of nuclear entrepreneurship practiced by such intermediaries as A. Q. Khan are revealed. One fact is clear: going nuclear has never been easier.
BRADLEY A. THAYER, Professor of Political Science at Baylor University.
These words really do describe topic at best.
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What to read on Middle East Peace Process?

One of the most complicated conflicts around the world is worthy to be reviewed in thousands of articles and books. But not all of them are able to provide us with a clear, objective, science-based information on this problem. Foreign Affairs specialists offer their annotated literature list, which contains the most useful books, depicting the Middle East Peace Process at best. This books are perfect attempts of explanation of the involvement of the three main participants of the Process - Israeli, Arabs and Americans.
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What to read on Israeli Politics?

Foreign Affairs syllabus on Israeli politics.
Israel as a stronghold of democracy in the Middle East is tightly connected with the United States in their common strive of middle-eastern rebuilding. Understanding of Israeli policy gives us a key to understanding of the whole process up there.
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