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Power Versus Prudence : Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons by T V Paul; Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité.; Teleglobe Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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"In Power versus Prudence Paul develops a prudential-realist model, arguing that a nation's national nuclear choices depend on specific regional security contexts: the non-great power states most likely to forgo nuclear weapons are those in zones of low and moderate conflict, while nations likely to acquire such capability tend to be in zones of high conflict and engaged in protracted conflicts and enduring rivalries. He demonstrates that the choice to forbear acquiring nuclear weapons is also a function of the extent of security interdependence that states experience with other states, both allies and adversaries. He applies the comparative case study method to pairs of states with similar characteristics - Germany/Japan, Canada/Australia, Sweden/Switzerland, Argentina/Brazil - in addition to analysing the nuclear choices of South Africa, Ukraine, South Korea, India, Pakistan, and Israel. Paul concludes by questioning some of the prevailing supply side approaches to non-proliferation, offering an explication of the security variable by linking nuclear proliferation with protracted conflicts and enduring rivalries." "Power versus Prudence will be of interest to students of internat

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Author

T V Paul; Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité.; Teleglobe Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies

Publisher

The Centre for Security and Foreign Policy Studies and the Teleglobe+Raoul-Dandurand Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies : McGill-Queen's University Press

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781282858831

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Political Science, Military