Below is one of the lists from the Peace section of the Booklists page of the Housmans website. It's the DISARMAMENT, ARMS RACE list. You can go right back to the website's main Booklists page (which links directly to and from all the other main pages) here. You can go back up to the start of the Peace section here. And you can jump directly between the Peace lists, without going back up to the head of the Peace section, using the links which follow... Key/recommended texts New and recent publications Topic 1: Pacifism and nonviolence Topic 2: Gandhi, Martin Luther King, etc Topic 3: Peace education Topic 4: Peace research Topic 5: Women and peace Topic 6: Lifestyles and religious Topic 7: Disarmament, arms race Topic 8: Nuclear and other WMDs Topic 9: Arms trade Topic 10: Specific wars Topic 11: "Terrorism" [Classification not yet available] Topic 12: Peace movement history Topic 13: Miscellaneous topics Topic 14: General peace issues Topic 15: Relevant fiction and poetry Topic 16: Journals [Classification not yet available] Topic 17: Reference [Classification not yet available] Topic 7: DISARMAMENT, ARMS RACE These books deal with: arms races and disarmament; geopolitical strategy; the Cold War and detente; arms control and legal approaches to disarmament; governmental and inter-governmental issues and the United Nations; "security" (in the sense of its mainstream definition); neutrality; and specific weapons and weapon systems other than WMDs. Please remember that many of the older titles included in this list are likely to be second-hand - see the Peace Booklists introductory page. Disarmament Diplomacy No 86 Autumn 2007 (Acronym Institute), £2.00 Defence without the Bomb (Taylor & Francis, London, 1983), pbk £4.00 The report of the Alternative Defence Commission, dealing with the threats, as well as with military and non-military options. Cold War or Detente? - The Soviet Viewpoint, Georgi Arbatov (Zed Books, London, 1983), pbk £2.00 Conventional and Non-Nuclear Disarmament - A Question for Peace Movements, (Ed) Rosemary Bechler (World Peace Council, Helsinki, 1989), £8.00 War in the New Century, Jeremy Black (Continuum, 2001), £7.00 Building Peace and Development - 1994, Boutros Boutros-Ghali (United Nations, New York, 1994), pbk £2.00 The UN's annual report, covering the work of the organisation between the 48th and 49th Sessions of the UN General Assembly. World Armament & World Hunger - A Call for Action, Willy Brandt (Victor Gollancz, 1986), £3.50 In Search of the Fourth Freedom, Howard S Brembeck (Har-Anand Publications, New Delhi, India, 1998), hbk £12.95 A plan for the elimination of weapons of mass destruction, and the freeing of the world from the fear of war, by building on the increase in global interdependence. Next Step to Peace, Fenner Brockway (London Co-operative Society Political Committee, 1970), pmphlt £2.00 Restructuring of Arms Production in Western Europe, (Eds) Michael Brzoska and Peter Lock (SIPRI / Oxford University Press, 1992), £16.50 Eleventh Hour for Europe, Ken Coates, Peggy Duff, Dan Smith, Mary Kaldor, EP Thompson & Roy Medvedev (Spokesman, 1981), £2.00 (pbk) / £4.00 (hbk) Spring in Moscow - END papers 15, (Ed) Ken Coates (Spokesman, 1987), £3.95 The Most Dangerous Decade - World Militarism and the New Non-aligned Peace Movement, Ken Coates (Spokesman, 1984), £3.95 Empire No More! ... the Lion and Wolf shall cease, Ken Coates (Spokesman, 2004), £11.99 Beyond the National Interest: The Future of UN Peacekeeping and Multilateralism in an Era of US Primacy, Jean-Marc Coicaud (United States Institute of Peace Press, Washington DC, USA, 2007), pbk £9.99 A "Checkbook" for Peace & World Affairs, HK Compton (HK Compton, 1997), £9.00 No No NATO, John Cox (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, London, 1982), pmphlt £3.00 Disarmament Negotiations - The Way Forward, George Crossley (Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, 1984), pmphlt £3.50 A Step by Step Approach to World Peace, Region by Region - A proposal for world peace through regional peace and development programmes, Ted Dunn (Gooday Publishers, 1988), £2.50 Nurturing the Natural Laws of Peace - through Regional Peace and Development Programmes, Ted Dunn (New European Publications, 2002), £10.95 Regional Peace and Development Programmes, Ted Dunn (Alternatives to War Press, 1993), pmphlt £3.00 Strengthening Coventional Deterrence in Europe - Proposals for the 1980s - Report of the European Security Study (Macmillan, 1983), £5.00 The Case against War - The Essential Legal Inquiries, Opinions and Judgements concerning War in Iraq, (Eds) George Farebrother and Nicholas Kollerstrom (Legal Enquiry Steering Group, 2003), £5.00 Blue Geopolitics - The United Nations Reform and the Future of the Blue Helmets, Vicenc Fisas (Pluto Press, 1995), £5.00 Arms Control: Management or Reform? - RIIA Chatham House Papers 31, Lawrence Freedman (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1986), £3.50 The Russian Threat - Its Myths and Realities, Jim Garrison & Pyare Shivpuri (Gateway Books, 1983), £3.95 Sky Wars: A History of Military Aerospace Power, David Gates (Reaktion Books, London, 2003), pbk £14.95 Dimensions of Peace and Security - A Reader, (Eds) Gustaaf Geeraerts, Natalie Pauwels and Eric Remacle (Peter Lang, Pieterlen, Switzerland, 2006), £22.00 War is not Inevitable (Peace Book Co, London, 1938), hbk £25.00 Based on the lectures given as the 13th "Problems of Peace" series at the Geneva Institute for International Relations in August 1938. An illuminating insight into the hopelessness of non-pacifist approaches to the approach of world war. Soviet Military Power - The Annotated and Corrected Version of the Pentagon's Guide, Tom Gervasi (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1988), hbk £7.50 Agreements for Arms Control: A Critical Survey, Jozef Goldblat (Taylor & Francis / SIPRI, 1982), £9.50 Danger: NATO, Anatoly Grishchenko, Vladimir Semenov and Leonid Teplinsky (Progress Publishers, Moscow, USSR, 1985), pbk £2.00 Strategic Terror - The Politics and Ethics of Aerial Bombardment, Beau Grosscup (Zed Books, 2006), £15.99 The Making of the Second Cold War, Fred Halliday (Verso, 1983), £4.00 The Second Superpower - The Arms Race & the Soviet Union, (Ed) Gerard Holden (CND Publications, 1985), £2.00 The European Missiles Crisis: Nuclear Weapons and Security Policy, (Eds) Hans-Henrik Holm and Nikolaj Petersen (Frances Pinter, 1983), £5.00 The Search for Peace: A Century of Peace Diplomacy, Douglas Hurd (Little, Brown and Company, 1997), hbk £5.00 Historically informative, in a not-very-wordy way; not quite as bad as it might have been from a mainstream politician. Became the basis of a TV series. World Disarmament - an idea whose time has come, (Eds) Ron Huzzard and Christopher Meredith (Spokesman, Nottingham, 1985), pbk £5.50 Struggle for Disarmament - Special Issue of Strategic Analysis (Vol VI, No 1-2) (Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi, India, 1982), £3.50 Strategic Survey 1989-1990 (Brassey's, for The International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1990), pbk £3.50 Strategic Survey 1997/98 (Oxford University Press, for The International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1998), pbk £3.50 Britain's Role in the United Nations, Robert Rhodes James (United Nations Association, 1970), pmphlt £2.00 The Emerging Role of the Security Council as an Instrument of International Peace, Kasturchand M Jhabak (Osmania University, Hyderabad, India, 1987), £2.50 Neutrality: A policy for Britain, Peter Johnson (Temple Smith, 1985), £4.50 The War Machine - The Case Against The Arms Race, James Avery Joyce (Hamlyn, 1981), £2.50 Disarming Europe, (Eds) Mary Kaldor & Dan Smith (Merlin Press, 1982), £6.00 The New Detente - Rethinking East-West Relations, (Eds) Mary Kaldor, Gerard Holden and Richard Falk (Verso / The United Nations University, 1989), £6.00 Dubious Specter - A Skeptical Look at the Soviet Nuclear Threat, Fred M Kaplan (Institute for Policy Studies, Washington, DC, USA, 1980), £2.00 Sense About Defence - The Report of the Labour Party Defence Study Group (Quartet, 1977), £4.00 European Security: Prospects for the 1980s, (Ed) Derek Leebaert (Lexington Books, Massachusetts, USA, 1979), £5.50 Emergence - Dimensions of a New World Order, (Ed) Charles Lerche (Baha'i Publishing Trust, 1991), £4.95 A Short Guide to Disarmament, Alan Litherland (Housmans, on behalf of the National Peace Council and a group of its member organisations, 1982), pmphlt £5.00 Though obviously dated, this (at the time very popular) pamphlet includes some ideas and arguments which are timeless. British Writing on Disarmament from 1914 to 1978 - a bibliography, Lorna Lloyd and Nicholas A Sims (Frances Pinter, 1979), £8.00 Disarmament - the Command of the Times, V Mamontov (Progress Publishers, Moscow, USSR, 1979), hbk £2.00 Arms no More: Will humanity survive the coming century from global arms race and nuclear terror?, Vijay Mehta (Arms Reduction Coalition, 2004), £3.50 The United Nations and Its Future in the 21st Century, (Ed) Vijay Mehta (Spokesman, for Action for UN Renewal, 2005), £10.00 Bases and Battleships - An Introduction to Foreign Military Presence, John M Miller (International Peace Bureau, Geneva, 1989), £2.50 From Hiroshima to the Hague: A guide to the World Court Project, Keith Mothersson (International Peace Bureau, 1992), £6.50 NATO Handbook (NATO Information Service, Brussels, 1982), pbk £2.00 Apocalypse Now?, Lord Mountbatten, Lord Noel-Baker and Lord Zuckerman (Spokesman, Nottingham, 1980), £2.00 New Left Review 130: USSR in the New Cold War (New Left Review, 1981), £3.50 How War Might Spread to Europe, Miroslav Nincic (SIPRI / Taylor & Francis, 1985), £2.00 The Arms Race - A Programme for World Disarmament, Philip Noel-Baker (John Calder, London, 1960), pbk £7.50 Semialignment and Western Security, (Ed) Nils Orvik (Croom Helm, 1986), £7.95 Living with Landmines - From International Treaty to Reality, Bill Purves (Black Rose Books, Montreal, 2001), £12.99 Planetary Legion for Peace: Story of Their War and Our Peace 1940-2000, Romulus Rexner (Veritas Foundation, 1987), £3.00 Nations in Arms: The Theory and Practice of Territorial Defence - Studies in International Security 18, Adam Roberts (Chatto & Windus, for IISS, 1976), £7.50 Lessons from Iraq: The UN must be reformed, David Roberts (Action for UN Renewal, London, 2004), pmphlt, £1.50 Defence Disarmament Peace - the case of the cruise missile, William Rodgers (The Labour Committee for Transatlantic Understanding, 1980), pmphlt £1.50 Clearly it ought to have been subtitled "the case for cruise missiles"... the group publishing this pamphlet are what you might fear from their name. Germany and Europe in Transition, (Eds) Adam Daniel Rotfeld and Walther Stutzle (SIPRI / Oxford University Press, 1991), £10.00 Peaceful Coexistence, Andrew Rothstein (Penguin, 1955), £2.00 The Political Economy of NATO - Past, Present, and into the 21st Century, Todd Sandler & Keith Hartley (Cambridge University Press, 1999), pbk £7.50 Safe & Sound - Disarmament and Development in the 80s, Clyde Sanger (Zed Press, 1982), £3.00 The Name of the Chamber Was Peace (Science for Peace / Samual Stevens & Company, Toronto, Canada, 1988), pbk £3.00 A selection of the Science for Peace public lectures, and University College lectures in peace studies, Toronto, 1986. Approaches to Disarmament - An Introductory Analysis, Nicholas A Sims (Friends Peace & International Relations Committee, 1974), £2.00 Anti-personnel Weapons (SIPRI / Taylor & Francis, 1978), £6.50 The Arms Race and Arms Control (SIPRI / Taylor & Francis, 1982), pbk £3.50 Non-Military Options for Britain, Dan Smith (Bradford University School of Peace Studies / Housmans, 1982), pmphlt £3.00 No 6 in the Peace Studies Papers series. Prospectus for a Habitable Planet, (Eds) Dan Smith and EP Thompson (Penguin, 1987), pbk £3.00 Breaking up the Cold War - analysis, alternatives, and rethinking Europe. A Culture of Peace - Dream or Achievable Goal?, (Ed) Fred Starkey (Pax Legalis / Institute of Law and Peace, 2001), £4.00 Sharpening International Sanctions - Toward a Stronger Role for the United Nations, John Stremlau (Carnegie Corporation of New York, 1996), £2.00 Deadly Gambits - The Reagan Administration and the stalemate in nuclear arms control, Strobe Talbott (Picador, 1985), £3.00 Discounted Casualties - The Human Cost of Depleted Uranium, Akira Tashiro (The Chugoku Shimbun, Hiroshima, Japan, 2001), £7.25 How Britain was Sold: Why the US bases came to Britain, Andy Thomas & Ben Lowe (Peace News, Nottingham; Housmans, London, 1984), pmphlt £2.50 A study of the origins of US nuclear bases in Britain. Protest and Survive, (Eds) EP Thompson and Dan Smith (Penguin Special, 1980), pbk £3.50 The Heavy Dancers, EP Thompson (Merlin Press, 1985), pbk £3.50 The Heavy Dancers: Writings on War, Past and Future, EP Thompson (Pantheon Books, New York, 1985), pbk £3.00 European Defence: Meeting the Strategic Challenge, Peter Truscott (IPPR, 2000), £2.50 Arms in the '80s - New Develolpments in the Global Arms Race, John Turner (SIPRI / Taylor and Francis, 1985), pbk £5.00 Regional Conference for the World Disarmament Campaign (United Nations, New York, 1988), pbk £2.50 Programme and proceedings of the March 1987 conference in Beijing, China. Symposium on Global Security for the Twenty-First Century (United Nations, New York, 1987), £2.50 Proceedings of the symposium held in Florence, Italy, in December 1986. The Blue Helmets: A Review of United Nations Peace-keeping (United Nations, 1990), £5.50 The United Nations versus the Arms Race (UN Department of Public Information, New York, USA, 1980), pbk £2.00 Writ of Summons: Legal Proceedings on the Deployment of Cruise Missiles in the Netherlands, AHJ van den Biesen (Ban the Cruise Missiles, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1986), £2.50 The Terror of Balance: Deterrence, Rearmament and the Illusion of Security, Andrew White (The Mernard Press, London, 1983), pmphlt £2.00 The Cold War and the Income Tax: A Protest, Edmund Wilson (W H Allen, 1964), £5.00 The Development of Mine Warfare - A Most Murderous and Barbarous Conduct, Norman Youngblood (Praeger Security International, Westport, Connecticut, USA, 2006), hbk £28.95 ORGANISATIONS you can contact which are concerned with some of the issues here include: World Disarmament Campaign (WDC), PO Box 28209, Edinburgh EH9 1ZR (tel +44-131-447 4004). International Peace Bureau (IPB), Rue de Zurich 41, 1201 Geneve, Switzerland (tel +41-22-731 6429; fax 738 9419; e-mail mailbox@ipb.org; web http://www.ipb.org). For further useful contacts see the Directory published in the latest Housmans Peace Diary.