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The Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation

This book examines the puzzle of why some states acquire nuclear weapons, whereas others refrain from trying to do so or even renounce them.

Based on the predominant theoretical thinking in International Relations it is often assumed that nuclear proliferation is inevitable, given the anarchic nature of the international system. Proliferation is thus often explained by vague references to states' insecurity in an anarchic environment. Yet, elusive generalisations and grand, abstract theories inhibit a more profound and detailed knowledge of the very political processes that lead towards nuclearisation or its reversal.

Drawing upon the philosophical and social- theoretical insights of American pragmatism, The Politics of Nuclear Non- Proliferation provides a theoretically innovative and practically useful framework for the analysis of states' nuclear proliferation policies. Rather than recounting a parsimonious, lean account of proliferation, the framework allows for the incorporation of multiple paradigms in order to depict the complex political contestation underlying states' proliferation decisions. This pragmatist framework of analysis offers ways of overcoming long- standing metatheoretical gridlocks in the IR discipline and encourages scholars to reorient their efforts towards imminent real- world challenges.

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

Ursula Jasper is a Senior Researcher at the Center for Security Studies (CSS), Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the University of St Gallen, Switzerland.

CSS Studies in Security and International Relations
Series Editor: Andreas Wenger
Center for Security Studies, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich

The CSS Studies in Security and International Relations series examines historical and contemporary aspects of security and conflict. The series provides a forum for new research based upon an expanded conception of security and will include monographs by the Center's research staff and associated academic partners.

War Plans and Alliances in the Cold War
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Transforming NATO in the Cold War
Challenges beyond deterrence in the 1960s
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US Foreign Policy and the War on Drugs
Displacing the cocaine and heroin industry
Cornelius Friesendorf

Cyber-Security and Threat Politics
US efforts to secure the Information Age
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Securing the Homeland
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Origins of the European Security System
The Helsinki Process revisited
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Russian Energy Power and Foreign Relations
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EuropeanAmerican Relations and the Middle East
From Suez to Iraq
Edited by Daniel Mckli and Victor Mauer

EU Foreign Policymaking and the Middle East Conflict
The Europeanization of national foreign policy
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The Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation
A pragmatist framework for analysis
Ursula Jasper

Regional Organisations and Security Conceptions and practices
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The Politics of Nuclear Non-Proliferation

A pragmatist framework for analysis

Ursula Jasper

First published 2014
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The right of Ursula Jasper to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging-in- Publication Data
Jasper, Ursula.

The politics of nuclear non-proliferation : a pragmatist framework for analysis / Ursula Jasper.
pages cm. (CSS studies in security and international relations)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Nuclear nonproliferation. 2. International relations. I. Title.
JZ5675.J37 2013
327.1747dc23
2013012178

ISBN: 978-0-415-82139-1 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-203-43588-5 (ebk)

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This book would not have been written without the magnificent support and encouragement that I have received along the way.

At the institutional level I am greatly indebted to the Institute of Political Science at the University of St. Gallen; the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University; and the Center for Security Studies at ETH Zrich. I also gratefully acknowledge the funding that was provided by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF). This allowed me to spend ten months as a pre- doctoral researcher at Harvard University and to enjoy this outstanding academic environment.

Moreover, the project has benefited immensely from the scholarly advice, constructive criticism and intellectual insights of the following colleagues: The fabulous IPW- RWA4-group; my teachers and co- fellows of the 2009/2010 cohort at Harvard's MTA and ISP program; Andreas Wenger and my colleagues at CSS, in particular Roland Popp and Liviu Horovitz. My supervisors James W. Davis and Heiner Hnggi not only allowed me to pursue my research independently, but also helped me to find my way out of dead- ends and pointless detours by providing useful critique.

I am moreover particularly grateful to Ulrich Roos, Mlfrid Braut-Hegghammer, Ralph Weber, Martin Beckstein, Emma Belcher, Kaspar Schiltz, Bernd Bucher and above all Ulrich Franke for critically reading various or even all parts of the manuscript at different stages. Their help was immense; any mistakes that remain are of course my responsibility. Special thanks also go to two anonymous reviewers, Andrew Humphrys and Annabelle Harris of Routledge as well as Lorraine Traynor who have patiently helped me to turn the PhD beast into a readable and much improved book manuscript.

Finally, my deepest gratitude goes to my friends and family for all the support, love, encouragement, and companionship. You mean so much more to me than you could possibly know. This book is dedicated to you.

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