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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
121

Arms control as a part of strategy: the Warsaw Pact in MBFR negotiations

Bluth, Christoph January 2012 (has links)
New archival materials have become available that allow us to test the conventional interpretation of Warsaw Pact policy towards conventional arms reductions in Europe. They shed new light on the objectives of the Eastern side in talks on mutual and balanced arms reductions, how it approached the dispute over the assessments of the military balance and sought to preserve its advantages while constraining West German military capabilities, and demonstrate that Soviet military leaders perceived a shift in the conventional military balance in favour of the West in the 1980s.
122

Arms control policy of the People's Republic of China, 1949-1978

Hu, Zhiqiang January 1985 (has links)
This study investigates how the PRC, during the three decades since its establishment, has responded to international politics involving arms control and disarmament (ACD) issues, and explores the essence of China's approach to concepts of arms control and disarmament. The central finding is that, despite its seeming relaxation of hostility towards international ACD activities, and the more active and flexible part it has played in them at the UN since the mid-1970s, China remains unconvinced of the value of these activities. This does not make it dangerous, irrational or immature. Chapters Two to Five provide a comprehensive account of the history of Chinese ACD policy between 1949 and 1978. Each chapter represents a distinctive period of Chinese arms control policy. Although more interested in the banning of the use, rather than the possession, of atomic weapons, the PRC behaved at first as an uncritical disciple of Soviet ACD positions (Chapter Two). During the second period (Chapter Three), China became increasingly uneasy about international ACD efforts and began to deviate from the Soviet stance. Moscow's denial of concrete assistance to China's nuclear weapons development, and the conclusion of the Partial Test Ban Treaty, eventually led the PRC into a period (Chapter Four) of open hostility towards nearly all international ACD initiatives. Then, in 1964, China's first nuclear test likewise radically changed its outlook on ACD matters. The final period (Chapter Five) examines its record at the UN in this regard, showing how the PRC was persuaded to commit itself to the Tlatelolco Treaty and to the 1978 UN Special Session on Disarmament. In conclusion, however, there is no evidence to suggest that the PRC has been committed to the concept of a disarmament process through arms control which both the US and the USSR, in their very different ways, have accepted. China has participated in international ACD negotiations while not really believing in their objectives, based as these are on a permanency of two superpowers. It is to be hoped that China's increasing involvement in the UN disarmament negotiation machinery will feed back into PRC policy-making and lead to a more positive and more willing participation in these ACD negotiations.
123

The 1977 United States arms embargo against South Africa institution and implementation to 1997 /

Van Wyk, Martha Susanna. January 2004 (has links)
Thesis (D Phil (History))--University of Pretoria, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references.
124

Causes and effects of U.S. military expenditures (time-series models and applications) /

Chung, Sam-man, January 1996 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1996. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 438-450). Also available on the Internet.
125

Causes and effects of U.S. military expenditures (time-series models and applications)

Chung, Sam-man, January 1996 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 1996. / Typescript. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 438-450). Also available on the Internet.
126

Taming the technological beast: the failure of Salt II to introduce stability into superpower strategic nuclear forces structures.

Stansfield, Ron E. (Ron Earl), Carleton University. Dissertation. International Affairs. January 1992 (has links)
Thesis (M.A.)--Carleton University, 1992. / Also available in electronic format on the Internet.
127

Change and continuity in U.S. efforts at nuclear non-proliferation from 1945 to 2000 preventing nuclear flows into Korea /

Oh, Wei Nam. January 2001 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 224-240).
128

The dynamics of small arms transfers in Southeast Asian insurgencies : a thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Political Science in the University of Canterbury /

Wall, Hamish K. January 2006 (has links)
Thesis (M. A.)--University of Canterbury, 2006. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 123-133). Also available via the World Wide Web.
129

Nuclear proliferation in South Asia and Middle East the centrality of enduring rivalries /

Pant, Harsh V. January 2007 (has links)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Notre Dame, 2007. / Thesis directed by Keir A. Lieber for the Department of Political Science. "July 2007." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 171-176).
130

The legitimation of Sweden's Arms exports : A content analysis of Swedish media and politicians framing of Sweden's Arms exports

Jernberg, Simon January 2018 (has links)
This thesis aims at deepen our understanding of the Swedish arms exports, especially the relationship between the spoken words of politicians and actual policy outcome. The research question for the thesis is “To what extent do specific frames deployed by the media and politicians about the character of the importing state, the type of arms exported, the inter-state relationship and the economic interests lead to a legitimation crisis in an arms exporting nation which ends arms exports and military cooperation?” This thesis is especially looking at Swedish arms deals with Saudi Arabia, South Africa and Thailand. In a content analysis of the Swedish media and politicians, and by using theories of legitimation and framing, the thesis analyses how these frames can affect the legitimation of an arms deal, and explaining different policy outcomes. The analysis shows that the most common frame to use to frame a receiving country or an arms deal negatively is to frame the character of the importing state in negative terms and also connect the arms exports to the regime in the receiving country. On the other side, to defend an arms deal it is most common to frame it as an economic interest that are of national interest. Lastly, the thesis can show that the Swedish arms deal with Saudi Arabia created a legitimation crisis, which was not the case for the deals with Thailand and South Africa, and this can help us understand why the military cooperation agreement between Sweden and Saudi Arabia was ended.

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