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The U.S. alliance system has been changing in response to changes in world affairs. The author closely analyzes the process in which she sees the system shifting from "threat-based" to "capabilities-based" alliances. (Gaiko Forum)

"Lottaz, Iwama, and their contributors investigate the role of neutral and nonaligned European states during the negotiations for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Focusing on the years from the Irish Resolution of 1958 until the treaty's opening for signatures ten years later, the nine chapters written by area experts highlight the processes and reasons for the political and diplomatic actions the neutrals took, and how those impacted the multilateral treaty negotiations. The book reveals new aspects of the dynamics that lead to this most consequential multilateral breakthrough of the Cold War. In part one, three chapters analyze the international system from a bird's eye perspective, discussing neutrality, nonalignment, and the nuclear order. The second part features six detailed case studies on the politics and diplomacy of Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, and Yugoslavia. Overall, this study suggests that despite the volatile and dangerous nature of the early Cold War, the balance of the strategic environment enabled actors that were not part of one or the other alliance system to play a role in the interlocking global politics that finally created the nuclear regime that defines international relations until today. A valuable resource for scholars of nonproliferation, the cold war, neutrality, nonalignment, and area studies"--

Lottaz, Iwama, and their contributors investigate the role of neutral and nonaligned European states during the negotiations for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Focusing on the years from the Irish Resolution of 1958 until the treaty's opening for signatures ten years later, the nine chapters written by area experts highlight the processes and reasons for the political and diplomatic actions the neutrals took, and how those impacted the multilateral treaty negotiations. The book reveals new aspects of the dynamics that lead to this most consequential multilateral breakthrough of the Cold War. In part one, three chapters analyze the international system from a bird's eye perspective, discussing neutrality, nonalignment, and the nuclear order. The second part features six detailed case studies on the politics and diplomacy of Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, and Yugoslavia. Overall, this study suggests that despite the volatile and dangerous nature of the early Cold War, the balance of the strategic environment enabled actors that were not part of one or the other alliance system to play a role in the interlocking global politics that finally created the nuclear regime that defines international relations until today. A valuable resource for scholars of nonproliferation, the Cold War, neutrality, nonalignment, and area studies.

Lottaz, Iwama, and their contributors investigate the role of neutral and nonaligned European states during the negotiations for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT). Focusing on the years from the Irish Resolution of 1958 until the treaty's opening for signatures ten years later, the nine chapters written by area experts highlight the processes and reasons for the political and diplomatic actions the neutrals took, and how those impacted the multilateral treaty negotiations. The book reveals new aspects of the dynamics that lead to this most consequential multilateral breakthrough of the Cold War. In part one, three chapters analyze the international system from a bird's eye perspective, discussing neutrality, nonalignment, and the nuclear order. The second part features six detailed case studies on the politics and diplomacy of Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, and Yugoslavia. Overall, this study suggests that despite the volatile and dangerous nature of the early Cold War, the balance of the strategic environment enabled actors that were not part of one or the other alliance system to play a role in the interlocking global politics that finally created the nuclear regime that defines international relations until today. A valuable resource for scholars of nonproliferation, the Cold War, neutrality, nonalignment, and area studies.

Neutrality, neutralism, and nonalignment in the early Cold War / Pascal Lottaz -- The making of the "1968 Global Nuclear Order" / Yoko Iwama -- Neutral and nonaligned nations in the making of the postcolonial nuclear order / Jonathan Hunt -- Ireland / Mervyn O'Driscoll -- Sweden / Thomas Jonter -- Finland / Tapio Juntunen -- Switzerland / Benno Zogg -- Austria / Herbert R. Reginbogin and Anna Graf-Steiner -- Yugoslavia / Marko Miljković.

Nuclear proliferation and conceptions of national interest : the U.S. case, 1960-1967 / William Burr -- After the hegemony of the "Atoms for Peace" programme : multilateral non-proliferation policy under the Nixon and Ford administrations / Shinsuke Tomotsugu -- Britain, the deterrence/non-proliferation dilemma and the NPT / John Baylis -- France's relationship to NATO defense strategy and the Western non-proliferation regime / Dominique Mongin -- Problem solved? : the German nuclear question and West Germany's accession to the NPT (1967-1975) / Andreas Lutsch -- Canada's affair with nuclear weapons : building, debating, acquiring, retiring / Don Munton -- Japan's nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation diplomacy during the Cold War : the myth and reality of a nuclear bombed country / Akira Kurosaki -- The Japanese Foreign Office and the decision to join the Non-Proliferation Treaty / Yoko Iwama -- In the shadow of China's bomb : nuclear consultation, commitment reconfirmation, and missile defence in the U.S.-Japan alliance, 1962-68 / Shingo Yoshida -- Conclusion / John Baylis -- Appendix: Japan's acquisition of nuclear and rocket capability / Kenta Horio