Stepping Back

Vogele provides a contemporary history of the nuclear arms control negotiations of the 1980s, tracing these negotiations from their initiation at the beginning of the decade through the agreements that were reached by the end. Two chapters provide background on arms control efforts from the mid-1950s through 1980. The work is an analytical history of nuclear arms control bargaining processes, and an evaluation of the utility of alternative negotiation strategies for producing agreement. Thus, the history of these negotiations offers lessons for the continuing pursuit of arms control and other cooperative security arrangement in the post-Cold War international order.

WILLIAM B. VOGELE is presently associated with the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, and is Special Assistant to the President at the Albert Einstein Institution. He has been a fellow with the Program on Nonviolent Sanctions at the Center for International Affairs at Harvard, Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Visiting Assistant Professor at Clark University, and Visiting Lecturer at the University of New Hampshire. Dr. Vogele is presently interested in analysis of alternative and cooperative security strategies, and the development of empirical research protocols for the evaluation of social powers that are relevant to these strategies.