The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation

Identity, Emotions and Foreign Policy

Jacques E. C. Hymans (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2006
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-61625-6 (ISBN)

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Dozens of states have long been capable of acquiring nuclear weapons, yet only a few have actually done so. Jacques E. C. Hymans finds that the key to this surprising historical pattern lies not in externally imposed constraints, but rather in state leaders' conceptions of the national identity. Synthesizing a wide range of scholarship from the humanities and social sciences to experimental psychology and neuroscience, Hymans builds a rigorous model of decisionmaking that links identity to emotions and ultimately to nuclear policy choices. Exhaustively researched case studies of France, India, Argentina, and Australia - two that got the bomb and two that abstained - demonstrate the value of this model while debunking common myths. This book will be invaluable to policymakers and concerned citizens who are frustrated with the frequent misjudgments of states' nuclear ambitions, and to scholars who seek a better understanding of how leaders make big foreign policy decisions.

Jacques E. C. Hymans is Associate Professor of International Relations at the University of Southern California. An expert on the politics of nuclear proliferation, he has published two single-authored books with Cambridge University Press, and numerous articles in peer-reviewed academic journals. Hymans received his bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Harvard University.

1. Introduction: life in a nuclear-capable crowd; 2. Leaders' national identity conceptions and nuclear choices; 3. Measuring leaders' national identity conceptions; 4. The struggle over the bomb in the French Fourth Republic; 5. Australia's search for security: nuclear armament, umbrella, or abolition?; 6. Argentina's nuclear ambition … and restraint; 7. 'We have a big bomb now': India's nuclear U-turn; 8. Conclusion: lessons for policy.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.2.2006
Zusatzinfo	18 Tables, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	154 x 227 mm
Gewicht	460 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-521-61625-5 / 0521616255
ISBN-13	978-0-521-61625-6 / 9780521616256
Zustand	Neuware