{"product_id":"9783032025715","title":"Obama and the Bomb New START, Russia and the Politics of Post-Cold War Arms Control","description":"\u003ch1\u003eObama and the Bomb\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eNew START, Russia and the Politics of Post-Cold War Arms Control\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFrank Leith Jones\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003ePolitical Science \/ American Government \/ General\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is the first study of how President Barack Obama and his administration used the negotiation and ratification of an arms control treaty, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START), as a vehicle for advancing one of the president’s primary foreign policy objectives, a reset of US relations with Russia in the early years of his first term of office.  It is a study of the administration’s efforts to move from a president’s strategic vision to defining that vision as a policy priority and ultimately, successfully negotiating what the president deemed the first and most important element of the reset agenda.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003eFrank Leith Jones\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin; color: black; mso-themecolor: text1;\"\u003e is a distinguished fellow of the US Army War College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, where he taught in the Department of National Security and Strategy until his retirement in 2022. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eBlowtorch: Robert Komer, Vietnam, and American Cold War Strategy\u003c\/em\u003e (2013) and \u003cem\u003eSam Nunn: Statesman of the Nuclear Age \u003c\/em\u003e(2020). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e20 October 2025\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eSpringer Nature Switzerland\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePalgrave Macmillan\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9783032025715\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eHardback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e336\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Springer Nature Switzerland","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44352247922828,"sku":"9783032025715","price":125.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/9783032025715.jpg?v=1781087596","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9783032025715","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}