Defending frenemies : alliances, politics, and nuclear nonproliferation in US foreign policy / Jeffrey W. Taliaferro.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Taliaferro, Jeffrey W., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear nonproliferation--Government policy--United States--History.

Nuclear nonproliferation.

Nuclear arms control--Government policy--United States--History.

Nuclear arms control.

Alliances.

United States--Foreign relations--1945-1989.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (313 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

'Defending Frenemies' examines the nonproliferation strategies that the United States pursued toward vulnerable and often obstreperous allies in three volatile regions of the globe, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. It presents a historical and comparative analysis of how successive US presidential administrations (those of John F. Kennedy to George H.W. Bush) employed inducements and coercive diplomacy toward Israel, Pakistan, South Korea, and Taiwan over nuclear proliferation.

Contents:

Introduction

Neoclassical realist theory, alliance politics, and nonproliferation

The United States and Israel's nuclear weapons program, 1961-1973

The United States and Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, 1975-1990

The United States and South Korea's nuclear weapons program, 1971-1981

The United States and Taiwan's nuclear weapons program, 1967-1978

Conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 31, 2019).

Also issued in print: 2019.

ISBN:

0-19-093933-8

0-19-093931-1

0-19-093934-6

0-19-093932-X