Beyond Emboldenment: How Acquiring Nuclear Weapons Can Change Foreign Policy

What happens to the foreign policies of states when they acquire nuclear weapons? Despite its importance, this question has not been answered satisfactorily. Nuclear weapons can facilitate six conceptually distinct foreign policy behaviors: aggression, expansion, independence, bolstering, steadfastn...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bell, Mark Stephen
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: MIT Press 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/100497
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5611-052X