Nuclear Alliance Restraint - Success and Failure in Countering Allied Proliferators

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.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Polarity, Geography, and Nuclear Alliance Restraint 3. The American Success to Denuclearize South Korea, 1970-1982 4. The Chinese Failure to Disarm North Korea, 1993-2016 5. The Soviet Failure to Restrain the Chinese Nuclear Armament, 1954-1966 6. The US Failure to Denuclearize Pakistan, 1991-2000 7. Comprehensive Investigation 8. Conclusion: Nuclear Alliance Restraint Now and After Unipolarity

About the author

Dong Sun Lee is a Professor of International Relations at Korea University, Seoul, South Korea. He has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Chicago and is the author of Power Shifts, Strategy, and War: Declining States and International Conflict (2008).
Iordanka Alexandrova is an Assistant Professor of International Relations at Seoul National University of Science and Technology, South Korea. She has a PhD in Political Science from Korea University.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Iordanka Alexandrova, Dong Sun Lee, Dong Sun (Korea University Lee, Lee Dong Sun
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.02.2025
• EAN: 9781032914015
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3291401-5
• No. of pages: 184
• Series: Routledge Global Security Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International), Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, HISTORY / Asia / Korea, Defence strategy, planning & research, Military and defence strategy, Theory of warfare and military science, Theory of warfare & military science