Neil Narang - Nonproliferation Policy and Nuclear Posture: Causes and Consequences for the Spread of Nuclear Weapons

This volume examines the causes and consequences of nuclear postures and nonproliferation policies.

The real-world importance of nuclear weapons has led to the production of a voluminous scholarly literature on the causes and consequences of nuclear weapons proliferation. Missing from this literature, however, is a more nuanced analysis that moves beyond a binary treatment of nuclear weapons possession, to an exploration of how different nuclear postures and nonproliferation policies may influence the proliferation of nuclear weapons and subsequent security outcomes. This volume addresses this deficit by focusing on the causes and consequences of nuclear postures and nonproliferation policies. It is the aim of this book to advance the development of a new empirical research agenda that brings systematic research methods to bear on new dimensions of the nuclear weapons phenomenon. Prior to the contributions in this volume, there has been little evidence to suggest that nuclear postures and policies have a meaningful impact on the spread of nuclear weapons or security outcomes. This book brings together a new generation of scholars, advancing innovative theoretical positions, and performing quantitative tests using original data on nuclear postures, nonproliferation policies, and WMD proliferation. Together, the chapters in this volume make novel theoretical, empirical, and methodological contributions to the field of nuclear weapons proliferation.

This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation, international relations, and security studies.

Neil Narang is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.

Erik Gartzke is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego, USA.

Matthew Kroenig is Associate Professor in the Department of Government and School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, USA.

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Nuclear Proliferation and International Security

Edited by Morten Bremer Maerli and Sverre Lodgaard

Global Insurgency and the Future of Armed Conflict

Debating fourth-generation warfare

Terry Terriff, Aaron Karp and Regina Karp

Terrorism and Weapons of Mass Destruction

Responding to the challenge

Edited by Ian Bellany

Globalization and WMD Proliferation

Terrorism, transnational networks, and international security

Edited by James A. Russell and Jim J. Wirtz

Power Shifts, Strategy, and War

Declining states and international conflict

Dong Sun Lee

Energy Security and Global Politics

The militarization of resource management

Edited by Daniel Moran and James A. Russell

US Nuclear Weapons Policy after the Cold War

Russians, rogues and domestic division

Nick Ritchie

Security and Post-Conflict Reconstruction

Dealing with fighters in the aftermath of war

Edited Robert Muggah

Network Centric Warfare and Coalition Operations

The new military operating system

Paul T. Mitchell

American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear

Threat inflation since 9/11

Edited by A. Trevor Thrall and Jane K. Cramer

Risk, Global Governance and Security

The other war on terror

Yee-Kuang Heng and Kenneth McDonagh

Nuclear Weapons and Cooperative Security in the 21st Century

The new disorder

Stephen J. Cimbala

Political Economy and Grand Strategy

A neoclassical realist view

Mark R. Brawley

Iran and Nuclear Weapons

Protracted conflict and proliferation

Saira Khan

AFRICOM, terrorism and security challenges

Edited by David J. Francis

Great Powers and Strategic Stability in the 21st Century

Competing visions of world order

Edited by Graeme P. Herd

The Globalisation of NATO

Intervention, security and identity

Veronica M. Kitchen

International Conflict in the Asia-Pacific

Patterns, consequences and management

Jacob Bercovitch and Mikio Oishi

Nuclear Proliferation and International Order

Challenges to the Non-Proliferation Treaty

Edited by Olav Njlstad

Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation

Towards a nuclear-weapon-free world?

Sverre Lodgaard

Nuclear Energy and Global Governance

Ensuring safety, security and non-proliferation

Trevor Findlay

Unipolarity and World Politics

A theory and its implications

Birthe Hansen

Disarmament Diplomacy and Human Security

Regimes, norms and moral progress in international relations

Denise Garcia

Causes and Consequences of Nuclear Proliferation

Edited by Robert Rauchhaus, Matthew Kroenig, and Erik Gartzke

Why Did the United States Invade Iraq?

Edited by Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall

Regional Powers and Security Orders

A theoretical framework

Edited by Robert Stewart-Ingersoll and Derrick Frazier

A Perpetual Menace

Nuclear weapons and international order

William Walker

Irans Nuclear Programme

Strategic implications

Joachim Krause

Arms Control and Missile Proliferation in the Middle East

Edited by Bernd Kubbig

The National Politics of Nuclear Power

Economics, security and governance

Benjamin Sovacool and Scott Valentine

Arms Controls in the 21st Century

Between coercion and cooperation

Edited by Oliver Meier and Christopher Daase

Reconceptualising Deterrence

Nudging toward rationality in Middle Eastern rivalries

Elli Lieberman

Psychology, Strategy and Conflict

Perceptions of insecurity in International Relations

Edited by James W. Davis

Nuclear Terrorism and Global Security

The challenge of phasing out highly enriched uranium

Edited by Alan J. Kuperman

Ballistic Missile Defence and US National Security Policy

Normalisation and acceptance after the Cold War

Andrew Futter

Sanctions, incentives, and target state calculations

Jean-Marc F. Blanchard and Norrin M. Ripsman

Technology Transfers and Non-Proliferation

Between control and cooperation

Edited by Oliver Meier

Northern Security and Global Politics

Nordic-Baltic strategic influence in a post-unipolar world

Edited by Ann-Sofie Dahl and Pauli Jrvenp

Geopolitics and Security in the Arctic

Regional developments in a global world

Edited by Rolf Tamnes and Kristine Offerdal

Precision Strike Warfare and International Intervention

Strategic, ethico-legal, and decisional implications

Edited by Mike Aaronson, Wali Aslam, Tom Dyson, and Regina Rauxloh

Nuclear Proliferation and the Psychology of Political Leadership