Nuclear Alliance Restraint: Success and Failure in Countering Allied Proliferators [Hardcover]

1. Introduction? 2. Polarity, Geography, and Nuclear Alliance Restraint? 3. The American Success to Denuclearize South Korea, 19701982? 4. The Chinese Failure to Disarm North Korea, 19932016? 5. The Soviet Failure to Restrain the Chinese Nuclear Armament, 19541966? 6. The US Failure to Denuclearize Pakistan, 19912000? 7. Comprehensive Investigation? 8. Conclusion: Nuclear Alliance Restraint Now and After Unipolarity

This book examines why powerful states have varying success in restraining less powerful allies from acquiring nuclear weapons, based on a broad range of historical case studies.

'Nuclear Alliance Restraint?is a fascinating and well-researched book that explains when powerful states are likely to prevent their weaker allies from acquiring nuclear weapons. Whereas many experts fear increased nuclear proliferation now that unipolarity has ended and great-power competition is back with a vengeance, Lee and Alexandrova argue the opposite. Lets hope they are right!'

John J. Mearsheimer,?R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, USA

'Nuclear Alliance Restraint?adopts a bold approach to understanding a crucially important questionunder what conditions do powerful states fail to stop weaker allies from acquiring nuclear weapons? The authors develop a structural theory that focuses on polaritythe number of superpowersand geography. Their high-level theory provides a parsimonious, yet nuanced, understanding of the credibility and leverage of the major powers carrots and sticks, and produces crucial insights that are missing from theories that focus instead on the characteristics of individual states.?Nuclear Alliance Restraint?greatly advanl“+