alliances, politics, and nuclear nonproliferation in US foreign policy /
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro.
New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2019.
1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction -- Neoclassical realist theory, alliance politics, and nonproliferation -- The United States and Israel's nuclear weapons program, 1961-1973 -- The United States and Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, 1975-1990 -- The United States and South Korea's nuclear weapons program, 1971-1981 -- The United States and Taiwan's nuclear weapons program, 1967-1978 -- Conclusions.
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Defending Frenemies examines the nonproliferation strategies that United States pursued toward vulnerable and often obstreperous allies in three volatile regions of the globe, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. Jeffrey W. Taliaferro shows that superpower competition and regional power dynamics, as filtered through US domestic politics, shaped the types of strategies US policymakers adopted toward the nuclear proliferation by Israel, Pakistan, South Korea, and Taiwan during the Cold War. The overriding goals of successive US administrations were.
Defending frenemies.
9780190939304
Alliances.
Nuclear arms control-- Government policy-- United States-- History.
Nuclear nonproliferation-- Government policy-- United States-- History.