The Proliferation Puzzle: Why Nuclear Weapons Spread (and What Results)

ISBN-13: 9780367543952 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 362 str.

Davis, Zachary S.

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First published in 1993, this volume was unique in its scope and approach: Unlike most literature on nuclear weapons proliferation at the time, the essays in this volume offer theoretical discussions and suggest testable hypotheses about the causes and effects of nuclear weapons proliferation.

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Nuclear Weapons Proliferation: Theory and Policy Benjamin Frankel and Zachary S. Davis.  Part 1: Realist Approaches  Dividing Realism: Structural Realism versus Security Materialism on Nuclear Security and Proliferation Daniel Deudney.  The Brooding Shadow: Systemic Incentives and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation Benjamin Frankel.  The Realist Nuclear Regime Zachary S. Davis.  Paranoids, Pygmies, Pariahs and Nonproliferation Revisited Richard K. Betts.  Part 2: State-Oriented Approaches  The End of the Cold War and the Future of Nuclear Proliferation: An Alternative to the Neo-Realist Perspective Glenn Chafetz.  Proliferation Optimism and Theories of Nuclear Operations Peter D. Feaver.  Nuclear Myths and the Causes of Nuclear Proliferation Peter R. Lavoy.  Understanding Nuclear Proliferation: Theoretical Explanation and China’s National Experience Avery Goldstein.  The Power of Suggestion: Opaque Proliferation, Existential Deterrence, and the South Asian Nuclear Arms Competition Devin T. Haggerty.  Part 3: Four More Models The Economic and Political Incentives to Acquire Nuclear Weapons Dagobert L. Brito and Michael D. Intriligator.  Forecasting the Risks of Nuclear Proliferation: Taiwan as an Illustration of the Method Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, James D. Morrow and Samuel S. G. Wu.  Multilateral Cooperation and Nuclear Nonproliferation Richard T. Cupitt and William J. Long.  Appendix: Technical Barriers to Nuclear Proliferation Peter D. Zimmerman.  The Contributors.