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Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of contents -- About the author -- Note on terminology -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- I.1 Why nuclear disarmament? -- I.2 Situating this study in the literature -- I.3 Contributions to the literature -- I.4 Study overview -- Notes -- Part I Understanding nuclear disarmament: theory and practice -- 1 Conceptualising nuclear disarmament -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 What is nuclear disarmament? -- Technical, legal and political aspects of nuclear disarmament -- 1.3 Nuclear weapons decision-making: past, present and future -- 1.4 How does nuclear disarmament relate to political theory? -- Notes -- 2 Assessing theories of nuclear possession and disarmament -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Offensive realism: John Mearsheimer -- 2.3 Defensive realism: Charles Glaser and Robert Jervis -- 2.4 Structural realism: Kenneth Waltz -- 2.5 Cooperation under anarchy: Robert Keohane and Nicholas Wheeler -- 2.6 Moving beyond realism: Campbell Craig and Daniel Deudney -- 2.7 The domestic politics model and institutional democratisation -- 2.7.1 Relating institutional democratisation to nuclear disarmament -- 2.7.2 Disarmament and democracy or nuclear possession and guardianship? -- 2.8 Chapter summary -- Notes -- Part II Obstacles to and opportunities for nuclear disarmament in and between the nuclear weapon states -- 3 United States of America -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Mainstream and realist perspectives on the causes and consequences of US nuclear possession and disarmament -- 3.3 Critical perspectives on the causes and consequences of US nuclear possession and disarmament -- 3.4 US nuclear politics in the post-Cold War world -- 3.4.1 The Presidencies of George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush -- 3.4.2 From Barack Obama to Donald Trump.

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