This book applies the cutting-edge socio-cultural model Cultural
Topography Analytic Framework (CTAF) pioneered in the authors’
earlier volume Strategic Culture and Weapons of Mass Destruction:
Culturally Based Insights into Comparative National Security
Policymaking (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) with an eye towards isolating
those vectors of nuclear decision-making on which the US might exert
influence within a foreign state. The case studies included in this
volume tackle a number of the nuclear challenges—termed “nuclear
thresholds”—likely to be faced by the US and identify the most
promising points of leverage available to American policymakers in
ameliorating a wide range of over-the-horizon nuclear challenges.
Because near and medium-term nuclear thresholds are likely to involve
both allies and adversaries simultaneously, meaning that US response
will require strategies tailored to both the perception of threat
experienced by the actors in question, the value the actors place on
their relationship with the US, and the domestic context driving
decision-making. This volume offers a nuanced look at each actor’s
identity, national norms, values, and perceptual lens in order to
offer culturally-focused insights into behavior and intentions.
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ISBN
9783319726700
Publisert
2018
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Palgrave Macmillan
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Engelsk
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Digital bok