1st Edition
Politics and the Bomb The Role of Experts in the Creation of Cooperative Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreements
1. Understanding the Role of Experts in the Creation of Cooperative Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreements 2. Applying the Epistemic Community Framework to Analyze the Creation of Cooperative Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreements 3. Argentina and Brazil’s "Suspected" Nuclear Weapons Program and the Emergence of an Epistemic Community 4. Examining the Influence of the Argentine-Brazilian Epistemic Community in the Creation of ABACC 5. Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine’s Nuclear Legacy: The Emergence of an Epistemic Community 6. Examining the Influence of the American and Soviet/Russian Epistemic Community in the Creation of the CTR Program 7. Reflecting on the Role of Epistemic Communities in Furthering Cooperative Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreements
Biography
Sara Z. Kutchesfahani is Senior Research Associate at the Center for International Trade and Security, University of Georgia.
"Politics and the Bomb brings new perspectives to the vital question of why states do or do not seek nuclear weapons. Dr. Kutchesfahani reveals the inner workings of communities of technical experts that all governments rely upon in order to understand nuclear threats and develop responses to them."
—James E. Doyle, Los Alamos National Laboratory
"This book treads important new ground in the study of non-proliferation by applying an epistemic community lens to illuminating and explaining two important cases studies: the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program and the Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials. Kutchesfahani's approach is sure to be imitated by students and scholars alike in the examination of other case studies of non-proliferation."
—Wyn Bowen, King's College London
