Defending frenemies : alliances, politics, and nuclear nonproliferation in US foreign policy /

'Defending Frenemies' examines the nonproliferation strategies that the United States pursued toward vulnerable and often obstreperous allies in three volatile regions of the globe, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. It presents a historica...

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Main Author: Taliaferro, Jeffrey W. (Author)
Corporate Author: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019
New York, NY : [2019]
Series:Oxford scholarship online
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Summary:'Defending Frenemies' examines the nonproliferation strategies that the United States pursued toward vulnerable and often obstreperous allies in three volatile regions of the globe, the Middle East, South Asia, and East Asia, from the early 1960s to the early 1990s. It presents a historical and comparative analysis of how successive US presidential administrations (those of John F. Kennedy to George H.W. Bush) employed inducements and coercive diplomacy toward Israel, Pakistan, South Korea, and Taiwan over nuclear proliferation
Item Description:Also issued in print: 2019
Physical Description:1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
1 online resource
Audience:Specialized
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0190939338
0190939346 (electronic bk.)
9780190939335
9780190939342 (ebook) :
9780190939342 (electronic bk.)