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  • The End of Strategic Stability?

    Nuclear Weapons and the Challenge of Regional Rivalries

    During the Cold War, many believed that the superpowers shared a conception of strategic stability, a coexistence where both sides would compete for global influence but would be deterred from using nuclear weapons. In actuality, both sides understood strategic stability and deterrence quite differently. Today’s international system is further complicated by more nuclear powers, regional rivalries ... Leer más

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  • Coercing Syria on Chemical Weapons

    A Case Study of Deterrence and Coercive Diplomacy

    Series series Bridging the Gap
    In 2012, US President Barack Obama stated that Syrian government usage of chemical weapons on its population would cross a red line that would require the US government to reconsider its approach to the civil war then underway in Syria. Syria subsequently used such weapons, creating a policy dilemma for the United States about how to respond to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's violation of the ... Leer más

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  • State Behavior and the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

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    This is the first book-length study of why states sometimes ignore, oppose, or undermine elements of the nuclear nonproliferation regime—even as they formally support it. Anchored by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, the nuclear nonproliferation regime is the constellation of agreements, initiatives, and norms that work in concert to regulate nuclear material and technology. ... Leer más

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  • What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God

    Religious Communication in Democratic Party Politics

    What Democrats Talk about When They Talk about God is a collection of essays on the religious communication of members of the Democratic Party, past and present-in office, while campaigning, and in their public and private writing. While many books on the market address issues at the intersection of church and state, none to date have focused exclusively on Democrats as important participants in ... Leer más

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  • Security Assurances and Nuclear Nonproliferation

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    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 ... Leer más

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  • Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons

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    Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality. As researchers such as Daniel Kahneman, Amos Tversky, and Richard Thaler have shown, people often depart in systematic ways from the predictions of the rational actor model of classic economic thought because of ... Leer más

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  • International Cooperation on WMD Nonproliferation

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    International efforts to prevent the spread of weapons of mass destruction (WMD)—including nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons—rest upon foundations provided by global treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Over time, however, states have created a number of other mechanisms for organizing international cooperation to promote ... Leer más

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    Disarmament Dynamics in the Twenty-First Century

    In recent decades the debate on nuclear weapons has focused overwhelmingly on proliferation and nonproliferation dynamics. In a series of Wall Street Journal articles, however, George Shultz, William Perry, Henry Kissinger, and Sam Nunn called on governments to rid the world of nuclear weapons, helping to put disarmament back into international security discussions. More recently, U.S. president ... Leer más

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  • Peddling Peril

    How the Secret Nuclear Trade Arms America's Enemie

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  • The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer

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    Series series Johns Hopkins Nuclear History and Contemporary Affairs
    This groundbreaking Cold War history reveals the government conspiracy to bring down America's most famous scientist.On April 12, 1954, the nation was astonished to learn that J. Robert Oppenheimer was facing charges of violating national security. Could the man who led the effort to build the atom bomb really be a traitor? In this riveting book, Priscilla J. McMillan draws on newly declassified U ... Leer más

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  • Violence and Crime in Latin America

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    According to media reports, Latin America is one of the most violent regions in the world—a distinction it held throughout the twentieth century. The authors of Violence and Crime in Latin America contend that perceptions and representations of violence and crime directly impact such behaviors, creating profound consequences for the political and social fabric of Latin American nations.Written by ... Leer más

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  • Containing Russia's Nuclear Firebirds

    Harmony and Change at the International Science and Technology Center

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