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The Nuclear Taboo Paradox: Destabilizing Consequences of the Norm

Bessler, Andrew Bryan
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This research forms a theoretical extension to Nina Tannenwald's nuclear taboo, positing that there is a stability-instability paradox intrinsic to the norm. Through case study investigations of the Korean War, Cuban Missile Crisis, and Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, I demonstrate that as the strength of the nuclear taboo increases over time, the incidence and severity of low- and mid-level conflict increase as well.
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Thesis is part of Honors ETD pilot project, 2008-2013. Migrated from Dspace in 2016.
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2012-04-30
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Nuclear taboo, Nuclear weapons, Tannenwald, Korea, Afghanistan, Cuba, Paradox, Nuclear, Norm, Brinkmanship, Conflict
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Oakes, Amy
Smith, Dennis A.
Kitamura, Hiroshi
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International Relations
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https://scholarworks.wm.edu/handle/internal/12202
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