Syllabus/achievement requirements

Pensum tilgjengelig online

Ariel Levite, “Never Say Never Again: Nuclear Reversal Revisited,” International Security, Vol 27, No. 3 (2002/2003), 59-88. [29 pages]

Bell, Mark S."Beyond Emboldenment: How Acquiring Nuclear Weapons Can Change Foreign Policy." International Security volume 40, no. 1 (Summer 2015): 87-119. [32 pages]

Braut-Hegghammer, Målfrid. "Revisiting Osirak: preventive attacks and nuclear proliferation risks." International Security, Vol. 36, No.1 (2011): 101-132. [31 pages]

C. Albin and D. Druckman (2014) "Bargaining over Weapons: Justice and Effectiveness in Arms Control Negotiations."  International Negotiation, Vol. 19, No. 3, 426-458. [32 pages]

Chaim Braun and Christopher Chyba, “Proliferation Rings: New Challenges to the Nuclear Proliferation Regime,” International Security, Vol 29, No. 2 (2004), 5-49. [44 pages]

Christopher Way and Jessica Weeks, “Making it Personal: Regime Type and Nuclear Proliferation,” American Journal of Political Science, Vol 58, No. 3 (2014), 705-719. [14 pages]

Francis J. Gavin, Blasts from the Past: Proliferation Lessons from the 1960s, International Security, 29.3 (2004) 100-135 [35 pages]

Fuhrmann, Matthew. "Taking a walk on the supply side the determinants of civilian nuclear cooperation." Journal of Conflict Resolution 53.2 (2009): 181-208. [27 pages]

Fuhrmann, Matthew, and Yonatan Lupu. "Do Arms Control Treaties Work? Assessing the Effectiveness of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty."International Studies Quarterly (2016): sqw013. [unpaginated, ca 15 pages]

Graham Allison, “Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis,” American Political Science Review, Vol 63, No. 3 (1969), 689-718. [29 pages]

Hill, Christopher R. "The elusive vision of a non-nuclear North Korea." The Washington Quarterly 36.2 (2013): 7-19. [12 pages]

Holloway, David. "The Soviet Union and the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency." Cold War History (2016): 1-20. [20 pages]

Kahl, Colin. "Not Time to Attack Iran'." Foreign Affairs 91.2 (2012): 166-173. [7 pages]

Kemp, R. Scott. "The nonproliferation emperor has no clothes: the gas centrifuge, supply-side controls, and the future of nuclear proliferation."International Security 38.4 (2014): 39-78. [39 pages]

Kroenig, Matthew. "Time to attack Iran." Foreign Affairs 91.1 (2012): 76-86. [10 pages]

Kroenig, Matthew. "Exporting the bomb: Why states provide sensitive nuclear assistance." American Political Science Review 103.01 (2009): 113-133. [20 pages]

Mack, Andrew. "North Korea and the Bomb." Foreign Policy 83 (1991): 87-104. [17 pages]

Montgomery, Alexander H. "Stop helping me: When nuclear assistance impedes nuclear programs." In The Nuclear Renaissance and International Security (2013): 177-202.  [25 pages]

Narang, Vipin. "Posturing for Peace? Pakistan's Nuclear Postures and South Asian Stability." International Security, 34.3 (2010): 38-78. [40 pages]

Nina Tannenwald (1999) The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative Basis of Nuclear Non-Use. International Organization. 53(3)Summer, 433–468. [35 pages]

Nicholas Miller "The Secret Success of Nonproliferation Sanctions." International Organization 68, No. 4 (2014): 913-944.  [31 pages]

“Nukes with Numbers: Empirical Research on the Consequences of Nuclear Weapons for International Conflict,” Annual Review of Political Science, May 2016, Vol. 19: pp. 397-412. [15 pages]

Posen, Barry R. "US security policy in a nuclear‐armed world or: What if Iraq had had nuclear weapons?." Security Studies 6.3 (1997): 1-31. [31 pages]

Press, Daryl G., Scott D. Sagan, and Benjamin A. Valentino. "Atomic aversion: experimental evidence on taboos, traditions, and the non-use of nuclear weapons." American Political Science Review 107.01 (2013): 188-206. [18 pages]

Roehrlich, Elisabeth. "The Cold War, the developing world, and the creation of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), 1953–1957." Cold War History (2016): 1-18. [18 pages]

Sarah Kreps and Fuhrmann, “Attacking the Atom: Does Bombing Nuclear Facilities Affect Proliferation?” Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol 34, No. 2, 161-187. [26 pages]

Scott Sagan, “Why do States Build Nuclear Weapons? Three Models in Search of a Bomb,” International Security, Vol. 21, no. 3 (Winter 1996-97): 54-86. [32 pages]

Scott D. Sagan, “The Causes of Nuclear Weapons Proliferation,” Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 17, page(s): 225-241 [16 pages]

Swango, Dane. "The United States and the Role of Nuclear Co-operation and Assistance in the Design of the Non-Proliferation Treaty." The International History Review 36.2 (2014): 210-229. [19 pages]

Todd S. Sechser and Matthew Fuhrmann, Crisis Bargaining and Nuclear Blackmail, International Organization, Volume 67 / Issue 01 / January 2013, pp. 173–195. [22 pages]

Vipin Narang "Nuclear Strategies of Emerging Nuclear Powers: North Korea and Iran," The Washington Quarterly, May 1, 2015, 73-91. [18 pages]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/monkey-cage/wp/2015/08/20/okay-so-what-if-iran-does-get-nuclear-weapons/ [1 page]

Book chapters

Braut-Hegghammer, Målfrid. Unclear Physics: Why Iraq and Libya failed to build nuclear weapons, Cornell University Press, 2016, 218-230 (12 pages)

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Recommended reading:

William Burr and Jeffrey T. Richelson, “Whether to ‘Strangle the Baby in the Cradle’: The United States and the Chinese Nuclear Program, 1960-64,” International Security, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Winter 2000-2001), 54-99. [45 pages]

Donald MacKenzie and Graham Spinardi, “Tacit Knowledge, Weapons Design, and the Uninvention of Nuclear Weapons,” Vol 101, No. 1, American Journal of Sociology, 1995), 44-99. [55 pages]

 

Sum: 860 pages

 

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