Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9780511491412
0511491417
0511146906
9780511146909
0511145888
9780511145889
0511146329
9780511146329
1280431563
9781280431562
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6610431566
0521850762
9780521850766
0521616255
9780521616256
0511312490
9780511312496
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9781107153721
0521850762
0521616255
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
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| Summary: | Dozens of states have long been capable of acquiring nuclear weapons, yet only a few have actually done so. Jacques E.C. Hymans finds that the key to this surprising historical pattern lies not in externally imposed constraints, but rather in state leaders' conceptions of the national identity. Synthesizing a wide range of scholarship from the humanities and social sciences to experimental psychology and neuroscience, Hymans builds a rigorous model of decisionmaking that links identity to emotions and ultimately to nuclear policy choices. Exhaustively researched case studies of France, India, Argentina, and Australia - two that got the bomb and two that abstained - demonstrate the value of this model while debunking common myths. This book will be invaluable to policymakers and concerned citizens who are frustrated with the frequent misjudgments of states' nuclear ambitions, and to scholars who seek a better understanding of how leaders make big foreign policy decisions.--
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| Other form: | Print version: Hymans, Jacques E.C. Psychology of nuclear proliferation. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 0521850762 0521616255
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| Standard no.: | 9780521850766
9780521616256
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