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Record Nr.

UNINA9910300525403321

Autore

Nah Liang Tuang

Titolo

Security, Economics and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Morality [[electronic resource] ] : Keeping or Surrendering the Bomb / / by Liang Tuang Nah

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-62253-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVII, 258 p. 14 illus.)

Collana

New Security Challenges, , 2731-0329

Disciplina

355

Soggetti

Politics and war

Peace

Political theory

International relations

Military and Defence Studies

Conflict Studies

Political Theory

International Relations Theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book seeks to elucidate the decisions of states that have chosen to acquire nuclear arms or inherited nuclear arsenals, and have either disarmed or elected to retain their warheads. It examines nuclear arms policy via an interconnected framework involving the eclectic use of national security based realism, economic interdependence liberalism, and nuclear weapons norms or morality based constructivism. Through the various chapters examining the nuclear munitions decisions of South Africa, Ukraine and North Korea, a case is built that a state’s leadership decides whether to keep or give up “the Bomb” based on interlinked security, economic and norms governed motivations. Thereafter, frameworks evaluating the likelihood of nuclear proliferation and accessing the feasibility of disarmament are then applied to North Korea and used to examine recent Iranian nuclear negotiability. This book is an invaluable resource for international



relations and security studies scholars, WMD analysts and post graduate or undergraduate candidates focusing on nuclear arms politics related courses.