Collusion and the nuclear nonproliferation regime
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 77, Issue 4, p. 983-997
ISSN: 0022-3816
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In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 77, Issue 4, p. 983-997
ISSN: 0022-3816
World Affairs Online
In: Political science quarterly: a nonpartisan journal devoted to the study and analysis of government, politics and international affairs ; PSQ, Volume 131, Issue 3, p. 654-656
ISSN: 1538-165X
In: Political science quarterly: PSQ ; the journal public and international affairs, Volume 131, Issue 3, p. 654-656
ISSN: 0032-3195
In: International organization, Volume 77, Issue 3, p. 599-632
ISSN: 1531-5088
World Affairs Online
In: American political science review, Volume 114, Issue 2, p. 342-355
ISSN: 1537-5943
Arming is puzzling for the same reason war is: it produces outcomes that could instead be realized through negotiation, without the costly diversion of resources arming entails. Despite this, arms control is exceedingly rare historically, so that arming is ubiquitous and its costs to humanity are large. We develop and test a theory that explains why arming is so common and its control so rare. The main impediment to arms control is the need for monitoring that renders a state's arming transparent enough to assure its compliance but not so much as to threaten its security. We present evidence that this trade-off has undermined arms control in three diverse contexts: Iraq's weapons programs after the Gulf War, great power competition in arms in the interwar period, and superpower military rivalry during the Cold War. These arms races account for almost 40% of all global arming in the past two centuries.
In: The journal of politics: JOP, Volume 77, Issue 4, p. 983-997
ISSN: 1468-2508
In: The nonproliferation review: program for nonproliferation studies, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 237-262
ISSN: 1746-1766
In: The nonproliferation review: program for nonproliferation studies, Volume 18, Issue 1, p. 17-37
ISSN: 1746-1766