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International Nuclear Export Controls and Non-Proliferation The Collective Action Problem

By Ian J. Stewart Copyright 2022
282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

282 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines the evolution of international nuclear non-proliferation trade controls over time. The book argues that the international nuclear export controls have developed in a sub-optimal way as a result of a non-proliferation collective action problem. This has resulted in competition among suppliers, owing to the absence of an overarching effective system of control. While efforts... Read more

1. Introduction: International Nuclear Export Controls and Non-proliferation and the collective action problem

2. The missed opportunity? Effective Control of Atomic Energy

3. Atoms, Sometimes for Peace: The emergence of the non-proliferation collective action problem

4. Strategies That Failed? US Non-Proliferation Strategy from the 1964 - 1980

5. International nuclear trade controls After The Cold War

6. Universalising Non-proliferation Trade Controls

7. Conclusions

Biography

Ian J. Stewart is Executive Director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washingtong DC, USA.