Nuclear Logics: Contrasting Paths in East Asia and the Middle East

by Etel Solingen

Nuclear Logics examines why some states seek nuclear weapons while others renounce them. Looking closely at nine cases in East Asia and the Middle East, Etel Solingen finds two distinct regional patterns. In East Asia, the norm since the late 1960s has been to forswear nuclear weapons, and North Korea, which makes no secret of its nuclear ambitions, is the anomaly. In the Middle East the opposite is the case, with Iran, Iraq, Israel, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691134685
• ISBN13: 9780691134680
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"