Security assurances and nuclear nonproliferation / edited by Jeffrey W. Knopf.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knopf, Jeffrey W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear nonproliferation.

National security.

Security, International.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While policy makers and scholars have long devoted considerable attention to strategies like deterrence, which threaten others with unacceptable consequences, such threat-based strategies are not always the best option. In some cases, a state may be better off seeking to give others a greater sense of security, rather than by holding their security at risk. The most prominent use of these security assurances has been in conjunction with efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.Ongoing concerns about the nuclear activities of countries like Iran and North Korea, and the pos

Contents:

Security assurances : initial hypotheses / Jeffrey W. Knopf

The psychology of assurance : an emotional tale / Janice Gross Stein

The role of security assurances in the nuclear nonproliferation regime / John Simpson

Libya, nuclear rollback, and the role of negative and positive security assurances / Wyn Q. Bowen

Security assurances and Iran : assessment and re-conceptualization / Jim Walsh

Maintaining Japan's non-nuclear identity : the role of U.S. security assurances / Yuki Tatsumi

Infusing commitment with credibility : the role of security assurances in cementing the U.S.-ROK alliance / Scott Snyder and Joyce Lee

Assessing the role of security assurances in dealing with North Korea / John S. Park

The United States and Swedish plans to build the bomb, 1945-1968 / Thomas Jonter

The "model" of Ukrainian denuclearization / Sherman W. Garnett.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804784917

0804784914

OCLC:

804661975