All Options on the Table : : Leaders, Preventive War, and Nuclear Proliferation / / Rachel Elizabeth Whitlark.

When is preventive war chosen to counter nuclear proliferation? In All Options on the Table, Rachel Elizabeth Whitlark looks beyond systemic and slow-moving factors such as the distribution of power. Instead, she highlights individual leaders' beliefs to explain when preventive military force i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
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Physical Description:1 online resource (276 p.) :; 1 b&w line drawing
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. When Leaders Use Preventive Military Force
  • 2. Explaining Preventive War as a Counterproliferation Strategy
  • 3. JFK and LBJ Confront China’s Nuclear Program
  • 4. Presidents 41 and 42 Engage North Korea’s Nuclear Program
  • 5. Three US Presidents Tangle with Iraq’s Nuclear Program
  • 6. Israel’s Preventive War Decision Making
  • 7. Conclusions and Implications
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index