Nuclear Debates in Asia (eBook, PDF)

The Role of Geopolitics and Domestic Processes
Redaktion: Mochizuki, Mike; Ollapally, Deepa M.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This important book analyzes nuclear weapon and energy policies in Asia, a region at risk for high-stakes military competition, conflict, and terrorism. The contributors explore the trajectory of debates over nuclear energy, security, and nonproliferation in key countries-China, India, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, and other states in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Arguing against conventional wisdom, the contributors make a convincing case that domestic variables are far more powerful than external factors in shaping nuclear decision making. The book explores what drives debates and how decisions are framed, the interplay between domestic dynamics and geopolitical calculations in the discourse, where the center of gravity of debates lies in each country, and what this means for regional cooperation or competition and U.S. nuclear energy and nonproliferation policy in Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216324881
• Artikelnr.: 74842662

Autorenporträt

Mike M. Mochizuki holds the Japan-U.S. Relations Chair in Memory of Gaston Sigur at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. Deepa M. Ollapally is research professor of international affairs and the associate director of the Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction: Uncovering Nuclear Thinking in Asia, by Deepa M.
Ollapally
Chapter 2: China: Evolving Attitudes on Nuclear Affairs, by Hui Zhang
Chapter 3: India: The Nuclear Debate of a Rising Power, by Deepa M.
Ollapally and Rajesh Rajagopalan
Chapter 4: Japan: Tremors in the Nuclear Consensus after Fukushima , by
Mike Mochizuki
Chapter 5: South Korea: Intense Debates and Global Nuclear Ambitions, by
Scott Snyder
Chapter 6: Taiwan: Commitment to a Nuclear-Free Future, by Robert Sutter
and Yuan-Ming Alvin Yao
Chapter 7: Vietnam: Nuclear Ambitions and Domestic Dynamics, by Linda J.
Yarr and Nguyê~n Thi. Thanh Thu' y
Chapter 8: Southeast Asia: A Measured Nuclear Policy, by Catharin Dalpino
and Timothy Westmyer
Chapter 9: Pakistan: The Nuclear Consensus, by Christopher Clary
Chapter 10: Conclusion: Policy Implications of Changing Domestic Debates,
by Mike Mochizuki
Index
About the Contributors