POL208Y5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Anti-Imperialism
Document Summary
Strong state do what they can: they can pursue a form of internal balancing by adopting the costly, but self-sufficient, policy of developing their own nuclear weapons. Weak states do what they must: they can join a balancing alliance w/ a nuclear power, utilizing a promise of nuclear retaliation by that ally as a means of extended deterrence: explaining nuclear restraint. Nuclear restraint is caused by the absence of the fundamental military threats that produce positive proliferation decisions: policy implications of the security model. Interests: envisions nuclear weapons as pol tools used to advance parochial domestic and bureaucratic interests, three kinds of actors commonly appear in historical case-studies of proliferation: Indira gandhi"s decision to make nuclear weapons resulted in her regaining public support after losing it due to the recession, etc. Shows how decision-making processes and domestic results are linked to potential causes of proliferation: development and denuclearization: south africa revisited.
