Strategic Nuclear Sharing

2014. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-29844-7
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 217 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 3796 g

Reihe: Global Issues

The sharing of nuclear weapons technology between states is unexpected, because nuclear weapons are such a powerful instrument in international politics, but sharing is not rare. This book proposes a theory to explain nuclear sharing and surveys its rich history from its beginnings in the Second World War.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schofield, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Medizinische Physik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Nuclear Sharing and Why More May Be Better 2. Theories of Nuclear Non-Sharing 3. The Theory of Nuclear Sharing 4. Nuclear Proliferation Races and Nonproliferation Bargains 5. Wartime Cooperation: The Early Cases of Nuclear Sharing 6. The Nature of Off-The-Shelf Requests 7. French Nuclear Assistance to Israel 8. The USSR, China, the Warsaw Pact and Cuba 9. Sharing within the Western Alliance 10. Israel and South Africa - Nuclear Collaboration 11. Chinese Nuclear Assistance to Pakistan and North Korea 12. Nuclear Sharing and Pakistan, North Korea and Iran 13. Soft Nuclear Sharing 14. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Julian Schofield is Associate Professor of Political Science at Concordia University, Canada and a retired Army Engineer Officer. He is the author of Militarization and War (2007), and with Usama Butt, Pakistan: the US, Geopolitics and Grand Strategies (2012). He has conducted research in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Egypt and Indonesia.