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  title info:
    title: Leveraging latency
    sub title: how the weak compel the strong with nuclear technology
  name:
    name part: Volpe, Tristan A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2023
    copyright date: 2023
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource.
  abstract: "Leveraging Latency explores how the weak coerce the strong with nuclear technology. Allies and adversaries alike can compel concessions from superpowers by threatening to acquire atomic weapons. When does nuclear latency-the technical capacity to build the bomb-enable states to pursue this coercive strategy? The conventional wisdom is that compellence with nuclear latency works when states are close to the bomb. But this intuitive notion is wrong. Tristan Volpe finds that more latency seldom translates into greater bargaining advantages. He reveals how coercion creates a tradeoff between making threats and assurances credible. States need just enough bomb-making capacity to threaten proliferation, but not so much that it becomes too difficult to promise nuclear restraint. The boundaries of this sweet spot align with the capacity to produce the fissile material at the heart of an atomic weapon. Historical studies of Japan, West Germany, North Korea, and Iran demonstrate that mere capacity to build atomic weapons can yield diplomatic dividends. As nuclear technology continues to cast a shadow over the global landscape, Leveraging Latency provides scholars and practitioners with a systematic assessment of its coercive utility. Volpe identifies a generalizable mechanism-the threat-assurance tradeoff-that explains why more power often makes compellence less likely to work. This framework illuminates how technology shapes broader bargaining dynamics and helps to refine policy options for inhibiting the spread of nuclear weapons"--
  table of contents: Cover -- Half-Title -- Series page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Theory of Compellence with Nuclear Latency -- 3. Japan -- 4. West Germany -- 5. North Korea -- 6. Iran -- 7. Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
  note: Tristan A. Volpe.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear nonproliferation
    topic: Political aspects
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear weapons
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear arms control
  subject:
    topic: International relations
  subject:
    topic: Non-prolifération nucléaire
    topic: Aspect politique
  subject:
    topic: Armes nucléaires
  subject:
    topic: Armes nucléaires
    topic: Contrôle
  subject:
    topic: Relations internationales
  subject:
    topic: international relations
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: International Relations
  subject:
    topic: International relations
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear arms control
  subject:
    topic: Nuclear weapons
  subject:
    topic: Politics & government
  subject:
    topic: Politics and Government
  classification: JZ5675 .V65 2023
  classification: 327.1/747
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  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 221014
    record change date: 20260318164723.7
    record identifier: in00005697477
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng