Atomic Assurance (eBook)

The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation

Alexander Lanoszka (Autor)

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2018
216 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-2920-1 (ISBN)

Infos

Do alliances curb efforts by states to develop nuclear weapons? Atomic Assurance looks at what makes alliances sufficiently credible to prevent nuclear proliferation; how alliances can break down and so encourage nuclear proliferation; and whether security guarantors like the United States can use alliance ties to end the nuclear efforts of their allies.

Alexander Lanoszka finds that military alliances are less useful in preventing allies from acquiring nuclear weapons than conventional wisdom suggests. Through intensive case studies of West Germany, Japan, and South Korea, as well as a series of smaller cases on Great Britain, France, Norway, Australia, and Taiwan, Atomic Assurance shows that it is easier to prevent an ally from initiating a nuclear program than to stop an ally that has already started one; in-theater conventional forces are crucial in making American nuclear guarantees credible; the American coercion of allies who started, or were tempted to start, a nuclear weapons program has played less of a role in forestalling nuclear proliferation than analysts have assumed; and the economic or technological reliance of a security-dependent ally on the United States works better to reverse or to halt that ally's nuclear bid than anything else.

Crossing diplomatic history, international relations, foreign policy, grand strategy, and nuclear strategy, Lanoszka's book reworks our understanding of the power and importance of alliances in stopping nuclear proliferation.

Autor

Alexander Lanoszka is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the University of Waterloo. Previously, he taught at City, University of London and has held fellowships at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Dartmouth College. His research on alliance politics, theories of war, and European security has appeared in International Security, Security Studies, International Affairs, Survival, and other academic journals. He holds a PhD from Princeton University.

Inhalt

Introduction
1. How Alliances (Mis)Manage Nuclear Proliferation
2. American Security Guarantees during the Cold War,1949–1980
3. West Germany, 1954–1970
4. Japan, 1952–1980
5. South Korea, 1968–1980
6. Nuclear Proliferation and Other American Alliances
Conclusion: Understanding and Managing Alliancesin the 21st Century
Notes
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.11.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Reihe/Serie: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Nuclear, alliance, coercion, deterrence, strategy, alliance politics, extended deterrence, nuclear proliferation, American grand strategy, American foreign policy, nuclear strategy
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-2920-9 / 1501729209
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-2920-1 / 9781501729201