Hegemony suffers from a bad press. It is currently used to refer simply to United States primacy. Thus presented, the US is considered to have been hegemonic since 1945, or at least since 1990. Instead, hegemony is presented ...

In March 2007 Britain decided to retain its nuclear deterrent by building a new generation of submarines capable of carrying US Trident missiles. The missiles themselves will be purchased from the United States in continuation ...

Between 1974 and 1979 the Labour Government, led first by Harold Wilson and then by James Callaghan, developed a programme of improvements to the British Polaris nuclear deterrent initiated during Wilson’s first government ...

One of the key questions in contemporary Strategic Studies and Non-Proliferation Studies focuses on the saliency of nuclear weapons in national security policies. Why is it that some states put particular emphasis on ...

This article considers whether the Bush Doctrine seeks to establish a new rule for the preventitive use of force against states and terrorist groups armed with weapons of mass destruction. Alternatively, does the Doctrine ...