Providing assurances about security to another state or states is a potentially useful technique for achieving defense and foreign policy goals. Security assurances play an especially prominent role in the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Empirical research remains limited, however, on the...

In this energy-constrained world, it is often the politics and not the economics that defines access to energy resources. Growing energy demand of the Asian countries, and in particular, countries where conventional fuel choices are inadequate, are prompting them to look for newer energy options...

Reviews the prominent works in recent years on the relative merits of total nuclear disarmament, and argue that while nuclear weapons have not become irrelevant, they have become less relevant as a result of the processes of globalization