All options on the table : leaders, preventive war, and nuclear proliferation / Rachel Elizabeth Whitlark.
Series: Cornell studies in security affairsPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, ©2021Description: 258 pages 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
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- 9781501760341
- U163 .W45 2021
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-249) and index.
When leaders use preventive military force -- Explaining preventive war as a counter-proliferation strategy -- JFK and LBJ confront China's nuclear program -- Presidents 41 and 42 engage North Korea's nuclear program -- Three American presidents tangle with Iraq's nuclear program -- Israel's preventive war decision-making -- Conclusions and implications: theory, practice, and future.
"This book uses archivally based, comparative case studies to explore decision making regarding preventive war as a counterproliferation strategy by (1) US presidents Kennedy, Johnson, Bush 41, Clinton, and Bush 43 against China, Iraq, and North Korea and (2) Israeli prime ministers Begin, Rabin, and Olmert against Iraq, Pakistan, and Syria"--