facing US missile defense policy and the issues in store for world politics.
This innovative and groundbreaking study contains lessons for those wishing to safeguard the future and become alert to its challenges.

Introduction 1. Pre-Empt, Balance or Intercept? The Evolution of Strategies for Coping with the Threat from Weapons of Mass Destruction 2. US Missile Defense - Technological Primacy in Action 3. Missile Defense in the United States 4. Roads Not (Yet) Taken: Russian Approaches to Cooperation in Missile Defense 5. Reluctant Allies? Europe and Missile Defense 6. China's Response to the US Missile Defense Program: National Options and Regional Implications 7. Birthe Hansen: The Middle East and Missile Defence 8. Ingemar Dörfer: Missile Defence in the Nordic Countries 9. Kristian Søby Kristensen: Negotiating Base Rights for Missile Defense: The Case of Thule Air Base in Greenland 10. Conclusion.

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