Sanctions, Statecraft, and Nuclear Proliferation [Paperback]

Leading scholars analyse key dilemmas in the application of sanctions and inducements on states that violate international non-proliferation commitments.States' violations of non-proliferation commitments remain a critical issue in international politics. Leading scholars analyse the effect of sanctions and inducements through novel perspectives, original case studies, new data and newly translated documents. Addresses debates of special interest to students, scholars and practitioners in international studies, political economy and comparative politics.States' violations of non-proliferation commitments remain a critical issue in international politics. Leading scholars analyse the effect of sanctions and inducements through novel perspectives, original case studies, new data and newly translated documents. Addresses debates of special interest to students, scholars and practitioners in international studies, political economy and comparative politics.Some states have violated international commitments not to develop nuclear weapons. Yet the effects of international sanctions or positive inducements on their internal politics remain highly contested. How have trade, aid, investments, diplomacy, financial measures and military threats affected different groups? How, when and why were those effects translated into compliance with non-proliferation rules? Have inducements been sufficiently biting, too harsh, too little, too late or just right for each case? How have different inducements influenced domestic cleavages? What were their unintended and unforeseen effects? Why are self-reliant autocracies more often the subject of sanctions? Leading scholars analyse the anatomy of inducements through novel conceptual perspectives, in-depth case studies, original quantitative data and newly translated documents. The volume distils ten key dilemmas of broad relevance to the study of statecraft, primarily from experiences with Iraq, Libya, Iran and North Korea, bound to sparklCà