The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions and Foreign Policy

ISBN-13: 9780521850766 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 286 str.

Jacques E. C. Hymans

Opis

This book analyzes the psychological factors that push state leaders to go, or not to go, nuclear.

Recenzje

'… The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation makes an important contribution to the literature on security studies and FPA. The study … is the right book at the right time.' International Studies Review

Spis treści

1. Introduction: life in a nuclear-capable crowd; 2. Leaders' national identity conceptions and nuclear choices; 3. Measuring leaders' national identity conceptions; 4. The struggle over the bomb in the French Fourth Republic; 5. Australia's search for security: nuclear armament, umbrella, or abolition?; 6. Argentina's nuclear ambition … and restraint; 7. 'We have a big bomb now': India's nuclear U-turn; 8. Conclusion: lessons for policy.