Partners in Deterrence - Us Nuclear Weapons and Alliances in Europe and Asia (Fruhling Stephan)(Pevná vazba)

From Truman to Trump, US administrations have regarded allies as important in supporting America's nuclear posture worldwide. This book explores the history of nuclear weapons cooperation between the US and its allies in Europe and Asia and puts alliances under the microscope to look at the role of institutions in them. As the first study of its kind to compare Europe and Asia, the book delves into into alliance structures and interaction during and since the end of the Cold War to uncover the underlying dynamics of nuclear weapons cooperation between the US and its allies. The book's central message is that alliances are ecosystems of exchange rather than mere tools of external balancing and that institutional perspectives yield important insights that realism does not into how structured cooperation can promote policy
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