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Outlier states : American strategies to change, contain, or engage regimes /

In the Bush era, Iran and North Korea were branded 'rogue' states for flouting international norms, and the administration's goal was to change their regimes. The Obama administration has chosen instead to call them nuclear 'outliers' and has proposed new means to bring the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Litwak, Robert S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Baltimore : Woodrow Wilson Center Press ; Johns Hopkins University Press, [2012]
Subjects:
United States > Foreign relations > 2009-2017.
World politics > 2005-2015.
Nuclear weapons > Developing countries.
Security, International.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Outlier states and international society
  • Pathways into the "community of nations"
  • strategies to contain, engage, or change
  • Nuclear outliers
  • Conclusion.