Nuclear Desire: Power and the Postcolonial Nuclear Order

摘要

The study of nuclear proliferation - and non-proliferation - has become a favourite pastime of many political scientists working on international security issues, to the point that few dimensions of the problem have not been covered in depth over the past 25 years. Yet three recently published books seek to bring new academic perspectives. While very different in scope, ambition and style, all three eschew the quantitative prism through which so much contemporary political science is conducted, especially in the United States.