Title Defending frenemies : alliances, politics, and nuclear nonproliferation in US foreign policy / Jeffrey W. Taliaferro

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019] ©2019

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 290 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Neoclassical realist theory, alliance politics, and nonproliferation -- The United States and Israel's nuclear weapons program, 1961-1973 -- The United States and Pakistan's nuclear weapons program, 1975-1990 -- The United States and South Korea's nuclear weapons program, 1971-1981 -- The United States and Taiwan's nuclear weapons program, 1967-1978 -- Conclusions Summary Defending Frenemies examines the nonproliferation strategies that 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. Jeffrey W. Taliaferro shows that superpower competition and regional power dynamics, as filtered through US domestic politics, shaped the types of strategies US policymakers adopted toward the nuclear proliferation by Israel, Pakistan, South Korea, and Taiwan during the Cold War. The overriding goals of successive US administrations were Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Nuclear nonproliferation -- Government policy -- United States -- History Nuclear arms control -- Government policy -- United States -- History Alliances. Alliances Diplomatic relations Nuclear arms control -- Government policy Nuclear nonproliferation -- Government policy SUBJECT United States -- Foreign relations -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140098 Subject United States Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780190939342 0190939346 9780190939335 0190939338 9780190939328 019093932X

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