Nuclear Logics (eBook)

Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East

Etel Solingen (Autor)

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2009
424 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2802-9 (ISBN)

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Etel Solingen is professor of political science at the University of California, Irvine. Her books include Regional Orders at Century's Dawn: Global and Domestic Influences on Grand Strategy (Princeton) and Industrial Policy, Technology, and International Bargaining: Designing Nuclear Industries in Argentina and Brazil.

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Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking closely at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East, Etel Solingen finds two distinct regional patterns. In East Asia, the norm since the late 1960s has been to forswear nuclear weapons, and North Korea, which makes no secret of its nuclear ambitions, is the anomaly. In the Middle East the opposite is the case, with Iran, Iraq, Israel, and Libya suspected of pursuing nuclear-weapons capabilities, with Egypt as the anomaly in recent decades.Identifying the domestic conditions underlying these divergent paths, Solingen argues that there are clear differences between states whose leaders advocate integration in the global economy and those that reject it. Among the former are countries like South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan, whose leaders have had stronger incentives to avoid the political, economic, and other costs of acquiring nuclear weapons. The latter, as in most cases in the Middle East, have had stronger incentives to exploit nuclear weapons as tools in nationalist platforms geared to helping their leaders survive in power. Solingen complements her bold argument with other logics explaining nuclear behavior, including security dilemmas, international norms and institutions, and the role of democracy and authoritarianism. Her account charts the most important frontier in understanding nuclear proliferation: grasping the relationship between internal and external political survival. Nuclear Logics is a pioneering book that is certain to provide an invaluable resource for researchers, teachers, and practitioners while reframing the policy debate surrounding nonproliferation.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.2.2009
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Zusatzinfo: 1 line illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abdul Qadeer Khan • abstention • Agreed Framework • Ali Khamenei • anti-nuclear movement • Arab–Israeli conflict • arms control • autarky • autocracy • Axis of Evil • ballistic missile • Bonyad • Calculation • Case study • chemical weapon • China • Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty • Conventional weapon • David Ben-Gurion • defection • Democratization • Diplomacy • Disarmament • disincentive • East Asia • Economic Growth • Economic Liberalization • Economics • Economic Sanctions • Enriched uranium • Entrepreneurship • Failed State • foreign policy • Globalization • government agency • grand strategy • Great Power • Gulf War • hegemony • hostility • infitah • Infrastructure • international regime • International Relations • Iranian Revolution • Islamism • Juche • Kim Jong-il • Korea • Korean Peninsula • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • militarization • Muammar Gaddafi • Muslim world • Nationalization • national security • Neorealism (international relations) • North Korea • Nuclear Arms Race • Nuclear disarmament • Nuclear Material • Nuclear power • nuclear program of iran • nuclear proliferation • nuclear reactor • Nuclear technology • nuclear umbrella • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Nuclear weapons testing • Operation Opera • Politician • Politics • Power balance • ratification • Regime • Requirement • Research reactor • Saddam Hussein • Saudi Arabia • Scientist • scud • security dilemma • Self-Sufficiency • South Korea • Sovereignty • Soviet Union • state-owned enterprise • Superiority (short story) • Tactical nuclear weapon • Technology • terrorism • Treaty • Uncertainty • Unemployment • United Nations • United States • war • weapon of mass destruction • West Germany
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2802-3 / 1400828023
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2802-9 / 9781400828029