Nuclear Politics

Four Volume Set

Edited by:

Series:
SAGE Library of International Relations

Other Titles in:
Peace Studies/Conflict Resolution | Politics & International Relations

February 2014 | 1 664 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd

While the Cold War ended more than two decades ago and global nuclear stockpiles have shrunk dramatically, there are still around 18,000 nuclear warheads distributed among nine nuclear armed states. Against the backdrop of continual political tensions and conflict, the nuclear issue will continue to dominate headlines for several decades into the future.

This new four-volume Major Work explores this important issue and aims to introduce readers to the key arguments and authors in the field. With such a wide variety of theoretical approaches and substantive topics under the umbrella of nuclear politics, this collection will not only allow the reader to peruse the diverse explanations for the regime, proliferation, nonproliferation and disarmament, it will also guide them through the intellectual history of the field.

Volume One: The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
Volume Two: Nuclear Proliferation
Volume Three: Nuclear Nonproliferation
Volume Four: Nuclear Disarmament and Alternative Voices on Nuclear Issues

VOLUME ONE: THE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION REGIME

Nuclear Learning and U.S.-Soviet Security Regimes

Joseph Nye

The Realist Nuclear Regime

Zachary Davis

The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty: History and Current Problems

George Bunn

Taking Stock of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime: Using Social Psychology to Understand Regime Effectiveness

Maria Rost Rublee

The Puzzle of Trusting Relationships in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty

Jan Ruzicka and Nicholas Wheeler

Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament: Can the Power of Ideas Tame the Power of the State?

Ramesh Thakur

The Ambivalence of Nuclear Histories

Itty Abraham

Nuclear Weapons, International Law and the World Court: A Historic Encounter

Richard Falk

The Comprehensive Test-Ban Treaty’s Relevance to Global Security

Nancy Gallagher

Stepping Stones to a Nuclear-Weapons-Free World

Ramesh Thakur

Peeling the Orange: Regional Paths to a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World

Michael Hamel-Green

International Humanitarian Law and Nuclear Weapons: Irreconcilable Differences

Dean Granoff and Jonathan Granoff

Spreading Temptation: Proliferation and Peaceful Nuclear Cooperation Agreements

Matthew Fuhrmann

Importing the Bomb: Sensitive Nuclear Assistance and Nuclear Proliferation

Matthew Kroenig

Nuclear Power Without Nuclear Proliferation?

Steven Miller and Scott Sagan

Proliferation Rings: New Challenges to the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

Chaim Braun and Christopher Chyba

Multilateral Cooperation and the Prevention of Nuclear Terrorism: Pragmatism Over Idealism

Wyn Bowen, Matthew Cottee and Christopher Hobbs

A Security System Commensurate with the Risk of Nuclear Terrorism

Kenneth Brill and Kenneth Luongo

Engaging India, Israel and Pakistan in the Nuclear Non-proliferation Regime

Jenny Nielsen

Can the NPT Regime Be Fixed or Should It Be Abandoned?

Ramesh Thakur, Jane Boulden, and Thomas Weiss

VOLUME TWO: NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION

The Brooding Shadow: Systemic Incentives and Nuclear Weapons Proliferation

Benjamin Frankel

Why Nuclear Superiority Doesn’t Matter

Robert Jervis

Exploding the Black Box: The Historical Sociology of Nuclear Proliferation

Steven Flank

Why Do States Build Nuclear Weapons?

Scott Sagan

Is There A Theory of Nuclear Proliferation? An Analysis of the Contemporary Debate

Tanya Ogilvie-White

The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative Basis of Nuclear Non-Use

Nina Tannenwald

Taboo or Tradition: The Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons in World Politics

T.V. Paul

Nuclear Myths and Political Realities

Kenneth Waltz

The Perils of Proliferation: Organization Theory, Deterrence Theory, and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons

Scott Sagan

The Myth of Nuclear Deterrence

Ward Wilson

Bringing Israel’s Bomb Out of the Basement: Has Nuclear Ambiguity Outlived Its Shelf Life

Avner Cohen and Marvin Miller

The South Asian Nuclear Challenge

Ramesh Thakur

India's Pathway to Pokhran II: The Prospects and Sources of New Delhi's Nuclear Weapons Program

Sumit Ganguly

Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons Program: Turning Points and Nuclear Choices

Samina Ahmed

North Korea’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: Badges, Shields, or Swords?

Victor Cha

Nuclear Proliferation and Regional Security Orders: Comparing North Korea and Iran

Amitav Acharya

The Correlates of Nuclear Proliferation: A Quantitative Test

Sonali Singh and Christopher Way

The Perils of Predicting Proliferation

Alexander Montgomery and Scott Sagan

VOLUME THREE: NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION

The Political Psychology of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

Glenn Chafetz

Constructivism and Social Psychology in Peace Studies: Understanding Nuclear Nonproliferation and Disarmament in East Asia

Maria Rost Rublee

Domestic Sources of Preferences for Arms Cooperation: The Impact of Protest

Jeffrey Knopf

The Political Economy of Nuclear Restraint

Etel Solingen

Never Say Never Again: Nuclear Reversal Revisited

Ariel Levite

Botching the Bomb: Why Nuclear Weapons Programs Often Fail on Their Own – and Why Iran’s Might, Too

Jacques Hymans

Of Gauchos and Gringos: Why Argentina Never Wanted the Bomb, and Why the United States Thought It Did

Jacques Hymans

Civil-Military Affairs and Security Institutions in the Southern Cone: The Sources of Argentine-Brazilian Nuclear Cooperation

Arturo Velázquez

Egypt's Nuclear Weapons Program: Lessons Learned

Maria Rost Rublee

German National Identity and WMD Proliferation

Harald Müller

Lessons of UNSCOM and UNMOVIC for WMD Non-Proliferation, Arms Control and Disarmament

Trevor Findlay

The Soviet Union and Nuclear Proliferation

William Potter

Nuclear U-Turns: Learning from South Korean and Taiwanese Rollback

Rebecca Hersman and Robert Peters

Non-Proliferation and Counter-Terrorism Cooperation in Southeast Asia: Meeting Global Obligations Through Regional Security Architectures?

Tanya Ogilvie-White

Libya's Nuclear Turnaround: Perspectives from Tripoli

Målfrid Braut-Hegghammer

Tito’s Nuclear Legacy

William Potter, Djuro Miljanic and Ivo Slaus

Discursive Foundations of Iran's Nuclear Policy

Homeira Moshirzadeh

VOLUME FOUR: NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT AND ALTERNATIVE VOICES ON NUCLEAR ISSUES

Is Nuclear Zero the Best Option?

Scott Sagan and Kenneth Waltz

What’s Next?

George Perkovich and James Acton

Abolishing Nuclear Armouries: Policy or Pipedream?

Michael Quinlan

Verification and Security in a Nuclear-Weapon-Free World: Elements and Framework of a Nuclear Weapons Convention

Jürgen Scheffran

North Korea Test as Spur to Nuclear Disarmament

Ramesh Thakur

If You Want Nonproliferation, Prepare for Disarmament

Ramesh Thakur

Ideas, Beliefs, and Nuclear Policies: The Cases of South Africa and Ukraine

William Long and Suzette Grillot

The Nuclear Threshold States: Nuclear Disarmament and the Challenges and Opportunities Posed by Brazil and Japan

Maria Rost Rublee

Regulating the Possession and Use of Nuclear Weapons: Ideas, Commissions and Agency in International Security Politics

Marianne Hanson

Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons

Donald MacKenzie and Graham Spinardi

Putting Disarmament Back in the Frame

Neil Cooper

Nuclearism, Human Rights and Constructions of Security (Part 1)

Ken Booth

Nuclear Reason: At the Limits of Strategy

Anthony Burke

Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals

Carol Cohn

Gender and the Nuclear Weapons State: A Feminist Critique of the UK Government’s White Paper on Trident

Claire Duncanson and Catherine Eschle

Reconstituting Security? : The Practices of Proliferation Control

David Mutimer

Relinquishing Nuclear Weapons: Identities, Networks and the British Bomb

Nick Ritchie

Reviving Nuclear Ethics: A Renewed Research Agenda for the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Doyle

An estimated 18,000 nuclear warheads exist in the arsenals of nine nuclear weapon armed countries - more than 5,000 of them deployed and nearly 2,000 on a state of alert ready to be launched in minutes. This frightening scenario of the actual potential for the use of the most destructive weapon of mass destruction invented by humankind with its long-term genetic and ecological impact demands that we examine the rationale for these weapons. The availability of a reader with some of the best intellectual work on the subject in this 4 volume publication edited by Professors Maria Rost Rublee and Ramesh Thakur is a an outstanding service to students and the general public as we move towards the elimination of nuclear weapons.

Jayantha Dhanapala

Pugwash Conferences on Science & World Affairs and former UN Under-Secretary-General and Ambassador of Sri Lanka

The Cold War created an appropriate acronym to describe nuclear insanity: MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction). What is truly mad now is that this nuclear insanity continues when the Cold War rationale for it has disappeared. If we want to move beyond MAD and Cold-War nuclear thinking, a comprehensive understanding of nuclear politics is critical. This four-volume reference work not only provides that broad overview, but also notably includes literature on disarmament and alternative voices on nuclear issues

Kishore Mahbubani

Dean of the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, National University of Singapore and author of 'The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World'

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