Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy

Name: Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy
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ISBN: 9780521616256

ISBN-10: 0521616255

ISBN-13: 9780521616256

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jacques E. C. Hymans

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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…

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List price: $37.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 2/16/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 286
Size: 6.06" wide x 8.94" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

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.



List of figures


List of tables


Preface


List of acronyms and abbreviations



Introduction: life in a nuclear-capable crowd



Leaders' national identity conceptions and nuclear choices



Measuring leaders' national identity conceptions



The struggle over the bomb in the French Fourth Republic



Australia's search for security: nuclear umbrella, armament, or abolition?



Argentina's nuclear ambition - and restraint



"We have a big bomb now": India's nuclear U-turn



Conclusion: lessons for policy



Coding rules and results


Bibliography


Name index


Subject index