Nonproliferation Norms - Why States Choose Nuclear Restraint

Informationen zum Autor MARIA ROST RUBLEE is a lecturer at the University of Auckland and a former intelligence officer in the Defense Intelligence Agency. Klappentext Our focus on the relative handful of countries with nuclear weapons keeps us from asking the question: Why do so many more states not have such weapons? This book argues that in addition to understanding a state's security environment, we must appreciate the social forces that influence how states conceptualize the value of nuclear weapons. Zusammenfassung Offers bold policy prescriptions based on a sharpened knowledge of the many ways we transmit and process nonproliferation norms. Rublee argues that the social mechanisms that encourage nonproliferation—and the regime that created them—must be preserved, for without them states that have exercised nuclear restraint may rethink their choices.

Product details

• Authors: Maria Rublee, Maria Rost Rublee
• Assisted by: Gary Bertsch (Editor), Howard Wiarda (Editor), Howard J. Wiarda (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.02.2009
• EAN: 9780820332352
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-3235-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Studies in Security and Intern; Studies in Security and Intern; Studies in Security and International Affairs
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration