Quality of Life, Balance of Power, and Nuclear Weapons (2010): A Statistical Yearbook for Statesmen and Citizens - Softcover

Avakov, Alexander V

Softcover

ISBN 10: 087586774X ISBN 13: 9780875867748

Publisher: Algora Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Who has the most nuclear assets in the Middle East? Whose power is waning, whose increasing? Economic, demographic and military indicators establish the pecking order for 232 countries analyzed in this yearbook, with estimates of all nuclear arsenals including rarely published data on non-signatory nations. This volume is streamlined from 2008 and updated for 2010.

About this title

About the Author:

Alexander V. Avakov was born in the USSR in 1954. He has been interested in economic statistics since childhood. His formal university education was in mathematics and mathematical economics with additional studies in economics, philosophy, law, politics, anthropology, sociology and psychology.

As a result of early political maturity he was arrested in 1975 for distributing liberal-minded leaflets at the university. Sentenced to a year and half of hard labor, he was sent to a KGB-run camp for political prisoners. After completing the prison term, he emigrated from the Soviet Union and has since settled with his family in the United States.

Previously published books in Russian include, among others, Autobiography of the Soviet Anti-Soviet Philosopher, and Welcome to the New Security State. Mr. Avakov has published several books through Algora, including 'Plato s Dream Realized: Surveillance and Citizen Rights, from KGB to FBI,' and 'Two Thousand Years of Economic Statistics.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Algora Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 087586774X
• ISBN 13: 9780875867748
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 182