Security at a Price

Nicholas Khoo is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Reuben Steff is a Lecturer in the Political Science and Public Policy Programme at the University of Waikato, Hamilton.

• Chapter 1. Missile Defense Politics: Unipolarity, the Security Dilemma and the Balancing DebateChapter 2. Russia and Lavrov’s “Law of Politics” Chapter 3. China and the Nuclear Politics of Power TransitionChapter 4. Iran’s Response to Missile DefenseChapter 5. North Korea’s Nuclear QuestChapter 6. U.S. Missile Defense: Security at a Price

A thoughtful and thought-provoking book by two leading thinkers on the topic. Ballistic missile defence is here to stay and it is imperative that we fully think through its strategic implications and how some of the programme’s most destabilising effects can be mitigated and managed.