alliances, politics, and nuclear nonproliferation in US foreign policy /
First Statement of Responsibility
Jeffrey W. Taliaferro.
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New York, NY :
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Oxford University Press,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2019.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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1 online resource
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references.
CONTENTS NOTE
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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.
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Title
Defending frenemies.
International Standard Book Number
9780190939304
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Alliances.
Nuclear arms control-- Government policy-- United States-- History.
Nuclear nonproliferation-- Government policy-- United States-- History.