{"product_id":"atomic-assurance-alexander-lanoszka-9781501729188","title":"Atomic Assurance: The Alliance Politics of Nuclear Proliferation","description":"\u003cp\u003eDo alliances curb efforts by states to develop nuclear weapons?\u003ci\u003e Atomic Assurance\u003c\/i\u003e looks at what makes alliances sufficiently credible to prevent nuclear proliferation; how alliances can break down and so encourage nuclear proliferation; and whether security guarantors like the United States can use alliance ties to end the nuclear efforts of their allies.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlexander Lanoszka finds that military alliances are less useful in preventing allies from acquiring nuclear weapons than conventional wisdom suggests. Through intensive case studies of West Germany, Japan, and South Korea, as well as a series of smaller cases on Great Britain, France, Norway, Australia, and Taiwan, \u003ci\u003eAtomic Assurance\u003c\/i\u003e shows that it is easier to prevent an ally from initiating a nuclear program than to stop an ally that has already started one; in-theater conventional forces are crucial in making American nuclear guarantees credible; the American coercion of allies who started, or were tempted to start, a nuclear weapons program has played less of a role in forestalling nuclear proliferation than analysts have assumed; and the economic or technological reliance of a security-dependent ally on the United States works better to reverse or to halt that ally's nuclear bid than anything else.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrossing diplomatic history, international relations, foreign policy, grand strategy, and nuclear strategy, Lanoszka's book reworks our understanding of the power and importance of alliances in stopping nuclear proliferation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Lanoszka\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501729187\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501729188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2019","brand":"Alexander Lanoszka","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43935203655935,"sku":"9781501729188","price":56.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_0435e5ea-e4cf-440d-ae28-8fba85ac34d6.jpg?v=1681418458","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/atomic-assurance-alexander-lanoszka-9781501729188","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}