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The psychology of nuclear proliferation : identity, emotions, and foreign policy
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ISBN: 9780521616256 9780521850766 0521850762 9780511491412 0511491417 0511146906 9780511146909 0511145888 9780511145889 0511146329 9780511146329 1280431563 9781280431562 9786610431564 6610431566 0521616255 0521616255 0511312490 9780511312496 1107153727 9781107153721 051118400X Year: 2006 Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Dozens of states have long been capable of acquiring nuclear weapons, yet only a few have actually done so. Jacques E. C. Hymans finds that the key to this surprising historical pattern lies not in externally imposed constraints, but rather in state leaders' conceptions of the national identity. Synthesizing a wide range of scholarship from the humanities and social sciences to experimental psychology and neuroscience, Hymans builds a rigorous model of decisionmaking that links identity to emotions and ultimately to nuclear policy choices. Exhaustively researched case studies of France, India, Argentina, and Australia - two that got the bomb and two that abstained - demonstrate the value of this model while debunking common myths. This book will be invaluable to policymakers and concerned citizens who are frustrated with the frequent misjudgments of states' nuclear ambitions, and to scholars who seek a better understanding of how leaders make big foreign policy decisions.


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Achieving nuclear ambitions : scientists, politicians and proliferation
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ISBN: 9780521767002 9780521132251 9781139049429 9781139233477 1139233475 0521767008 0521132258 1139049429 113923420X 1107225043 128039336X 113923269X 9786613571281 1139230468 1139229028 1139231936 Year: 2012 Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press,

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Despite the global spread of nuclear hardware and knowledge, at least half of the nuclear weapons projects launched since 1970 have definitively failed, and even the successful projects have generally needed far more time than expected. To explain this puzzling slowdown in proliferation, Jacques E. C. Hymans focuses on the relations between politicians and scientific and technical workers in developing countries. By undermining the workers' spirit of professionalism, developing country rulers unintentionally thwart their own nuclear ambitions. Combining rich theoretical analysis, in-depth historical case studies of Iraq, China, Yugoslavia and Argentina and insightful analyses of current-day proliferant states, Achieving Nuclear Ambitions develops a powerful new perspective that effectively counters the widespread fears of a coming cascade of new nuclear powers.


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Ultrasound-guided regional anesthesia and pain medicine
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ISBN: 1496309715 9781496309716 9781451173338 1451173334 Year: 2014 Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : Wolters Kluwer Health/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,

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"This new edition has 40 new chapters. This edition includes chapters on the rapid expansion of ultrasound into the diagnosis and performance of procedures for chronic pain conditions. In addition, the diagnosis and treatment of many other medical conditions with ultrasound guidance has found its way into the practice of anesthesiologists"--Provided by publisher.

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