Nuclear Inertia: US Nuclear Weapons Policy After The Cold War: v. 26 - Rilegato

Sauer, Tom

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1850437653 ISBN 13: 9781850437659

Casa editrice: Tauris Academic Studies, 2005

Riassunto

This book examines why despite the Cold War having ended more than ten years ago, the U.S. still maintains an arsenal of over 10,000 nuclear warheads. The major explanatory factors are to be found not in the structure of the international system but in domestic politics. Tom Sauer ascribes the lack of change to bureaucratic resistance, dogmatic thinking and lack of political leadership. Clinton's first Secretary of Defense tried to change US nuclear weapons policy by initiating the 1993-1994 Nuclear Posture Review but was blocked by lower-level bureaucratic opposition. Sauer suggests that this points to a lack of civilian control over the military during the Clinton administration and that parochial interests triumphed at the expense of national and international interests.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Tom Sauer is a post-doctoral research fellow of the Flemish Fund for Scientific Research and a lecturer at the Department of Politics at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium

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Book by Sauer Tom

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Tauris Academic Studies
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1850437653
• ISBN 13: 9781850437659
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 232