Rens van Munster - Nuclear Realism: Global political thought during the thermonuclear revolution

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Names: Munster, Rens van, 1977 author. | Sylvest, Casper, author.
Title: Nuclear realism : global political thought during the thermonuclear

revolution / Rens van Munster and Casper Sylvest.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2016. | Series: New international

relations | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2015047050 | ISBN 9780415747998 (hardback) |

ISBN 9781315796734 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Nuclear weaponsPolitical aspects. | Security, International.
Classification: LCC JZ5665 .M86 2016 | DDC 355.02/17dc23
LC record available at http://lccn.loc.gov/2015047050

ISBN: 978-0-415-74799-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-1-315-79673-4 (ebk)

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Rens van Munster is senior researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS). Located at the intersection of IR theory and critical security studies, his research interrogates practices of security and risk management, with a particular focus on the politics and governance of catastrophes. He has published widely in leading IR journals and is the author and co-author of several books. His most recent publications include the co-edited volumes, with Casper Sylvest, Documenting World Politics: A Critical Companion to IR and Non-Fiction Film (Routledge, 2015) and The Politics of Globality since 1945: Assembling the Planet (Routledge, 2016).

Casper Sylvest is associate professor at the Department of History, University of Southern Denmark. Combining the study of politics, history, law and technology, most of his work has examined realist and liberal visions of international and global politics during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has published widely in leading history and IR journals and has recently co-edited, with Rens van Munster, Documenting World Politics: A Critical Companion to IR and Non-Fiction Film (Routledge, 2015) and The Politics of Globality since 1945: Assembling the Planet (Routledge, 2016).