Overview
- Systematically analyses nuclear weapons retention and relinquishment policy from security, economics and norms based perspectives
- It compiles a broad range of relevant case studies, including: South Africa, Ukraine, North Korea, Iran, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Pakistan
- Provides prescriptive criteria for detecting potential nuclear proliferation and encouraging nuclear disarmament
Part of the book series: New Security Challenges (NSECH)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book seeks to elucidate the decisions of states that have chosen to acquire nuclear arms or inherited nuclear arsenals, and have either disarmed or elected to retain their warheads. It examines nuclear arms policy via an interconnected framework involving the eclectic use of national security based realism, economic interdependence liberalism, and nuclear weapons norms or morality based constructivism. Through the various chapters examining the nuclear munitions decisions of South Africa, Ukraine and North Korea, a case is built that a state’s leadership decides whether to keep or give up “the Bomb” based on interlinked security, economic and norms governed motivations. Thereafter, frameworks evaluating the likelihood of nuclear proliferation and accessing the feasibility of disarmament are then applied to North Korea and used to examine recent Iranian nuclear negotiability. This book is an invaluable resource for international relations and security studies scholars, WMD analysts and post graduate or undergraduate candidates focusing on nuclear arms politics related courses
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Liang Tuang Nah is a Research Fellow with the military studies programme of the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is also an international relations and security studies instructor to officers of the Singapore Armed Forces.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Security, Economics and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Morality
Book Subtitle: Keeping or Surrendering the Bomb
Authors: Liang Tuang Nah
Series Title: New Security Challenges
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62253-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62252-1Published: 19 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87271-1Published: 18 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62253-8Published: 04 September 2017
Series ISSN: 2731-0329
Series E-ISSN: 2731-0337
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 258
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: Military and Defence Studies, Conflict Studies, Political Theory, International Relations Theory