Open Skies: Transparency, Confidence-Building, and the End of the Cold War - Couverture rigide

Jones, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0804790981 ISBN 13 : 9780804790987

Editeur : Stanford University Press, 2014

Synopsis

This book recounts and analyzes the history of one of the best-kept diplomatic and security secrets of the last half-century-the Open Skies Treaty: a treaty that allows the U.S., the Russian Federation, and over 30 other signatories to fly unarmed reconnaissance aircraft over one another's territory. First proposed by President Eisenhower in 1955, shelved by succeeding administrations, re-launched by President George H. W. Bush in 1989, and finally ratified in 2002, the Treaty has been one of the most important security instruments of the 21st century-with over 1,000 flights logged to date providing confidence for the governments, intelligence communities, and militaries of former and potential adversaries.

Written by a professor and former diplomat who was deeply involved in the negotiations of the Open Skies Treaty from 1989 to 1995, this book is a meticulous work of political history that explores how Open Skies affected, and was affected by, the extraordinary times of its negotiation-during which the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union collapsed. But it is also a potential blueprint for future applications of the Open Skies concept by providing insights into the role that cooperative aerial monitoring can play in helping to transform other difficult relationships around the world. As such it will serve as a negotiation handbook for diplomats, bureaucrats, and politicians and as a case-study textbook for IR students and students of diplomacy.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Peter Jones teaches in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Stanford University Press
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0804790981
• ISBN 13: 9780804790987
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 264
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible