POLITICAL SURVIVAL AND NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION

Abstract

Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East, by Etel Solingen. Princeton University Press, 2007. 404 pages, $26.95.

Keywords:

• Nonproliferation
• political survival
• state security
• nuclear weapons

Notes

1. Etel Solingen, “The Political Economy of Nuclear Restraint,” International Security 19 (Fall 1994), p. 127.

2. Potter makes this observation in “Proliferation Trends and Trigger Events,” a seminar he teaches at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.

3. See Avner Cohen, Israel and the Bomb (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999), pp. 9–14, and Janice Gross Stein, “Proliferation, Non-Proliferation, and Anti-Proliferation: Egypt and Israel in the Middle East,” in Steven L. Spiegel, Jennifer D. Kibbe, and Elizabeth G. Matthews, eds., The Dynamics of Middle East Nuclear Proliferation (Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press, 2001), pp. 40–42.

4. Jacques Hymans, The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions, and Foreign Policy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006), p. 1.

5. Quoted in Zachary Shore, “Three Faces of Realism: Reviewing John Mearsheimer, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics; Jonathan Haslam, No Virtue Like Necessity: Realist Thought in International Relations Since Machiavelli; and Stanley Michalak, Primer in Power Politics,” Orbis 47 (Spring 2003), p. 359.