Causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation

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Title:

Causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation

Author:

Rauchhaus, Robert W., 1971-.

ISBN:

9780415598330

Publication Information:

Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2011.

Physical Description:

235 pp.

Series:

Routledge Global Security Studies

General Note:

PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. A Strategic Approach to Nuclear Proliferation, Erik Gartzke, Matthew Kroenig, Robert Rauchhaus PART II. THE CAUSES OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION 2. Why Delegate for Non-proliferation? Explaining International Cooperation through the International Atomic Energy Agency, Robert Brown 3. Membership Has Its Privileges: Conventional Arms and Influence within the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Jennifer Erickson Christopher Way 4. Importing the Bomb: Sensitive Nuclear Assistance and Nuclear Proliferation, Matthew Kroenig 5. Taking a Walk on the Supply-Side: The Determinants of Civilian Nuclear Cooperation, Matthew Fuhrmann 6. Nuclear Politics: The Political Decision to Acquire, Sustain or Discard a Nuclear Arsenal, James Wirtz 7. A Bargaining Model of Nuclear Weapons Development and Disarmament, Brett V. Benson Quan Wen PART III: THE CONSEQUENCES OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION 8. Bargaining, Nuclear Proliferation, and Interstate Disputes, Erik Gartzke Dong-Joon Jo 9. The.

Abstract:

This edited volume offers a systematic account of the process of nuclear proliferation and its consequences, using quantitative research methods. The real-world importance of nuclear weapons has led to the production of a voluminous scholarly literature on nuclear proliferation. Missing from this debate is an analysis of how states acquire nuclear weapons and a systematic empirical examination of how nuclear weapons may affect the security and the diplomacy of their possessors. The chapters in this book address these twin deficits....

Subject Term:

Nuclear nonproliferation.

Added Author:

Rauchhaus, Robert W., 1971-.

Kroenig, Matthew.

Gartzke, Erik.

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This book offers valuable insights into the causes and consequences of nuclear proliferation.

Through the development of new datasets and the application of cutting edge research methods, contributors to this volume significantly advance the frontiers of research on nuclear weapons. Essays in this volume address why states acquire nuclear weapons, why they engage in nuclear cooperation, and also explore the relationship between nuclear weapons possession and a variety of security and diplomatic consequences. In addition to accelerating the development of an empirical research agenda, the chapters combine to form a coherent storyline that shows nuclear technology and capabilities have been under appreciated as a cause of proliferation in recent scholarly literature. For scholars and practitioners alike, there is a strategic logic to nuclear assistance that is essential to understand. Moreover, several of the essays show that the consequences of nuclear proliferation are more complex than is conventionally understood. Nuclear weapons can have both stabilizing and destabilizing effects. Nuclear weapons may simultaneously cause their owners to become more influential, more successful in the wars they choose to fight, and to have less intense conflicts, when these conflicts occur.

This book will be of much interest to students of arms control and nuclear proliferation, war and conflict studies, security studies and IR.