{"product_id":"politics-and-the-bomb","title":"Politics and the Bomb","description":"\u003cp\u003eEpistemic communities represent networks of knowledge-based experts that help articulate cause-and-effect relationships of complex problems, define the self-interests of a state, or formulate specific policies for state decision makers. However, the role of these scientists and knowledgeable professionals in nuclear policy formulation is poorly understood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThoroughly documented and making excellent use of source material, \u003cem\u003ePolitics and the Bomb\u003c\/em\u003e provides refreshingly new empirical evidence and theoretical analysis of the importance of scientists and experts behind the creation of new non-proliferation agreements. Simply not another book on nuclear proliferation, Sara Z. Kutchesfahani explores the differences in the emergence, composition, and influence mechanisms of the epistemic communities behind the nuclear non-proliferation policy formulation in Brazilian-Argentine Agency for Accounting and Control of Nuclear Materials (ABACC) and the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Program. In doing so she eloquently demonstrates how the role of these non-proliferation experts lead to the possibility of creating more effective non-proliferation policies in the future and hints at the need to sustain non-proliferation epistemic communities in all countries that can provide input to the global proliferation problem until it is solved.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54246083887448,"sku":"9780415531030","price":198.4,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415531030_b1ef90d3-15d9-4e30-91cb-dabd77122811.jpg?v=1770299148","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/politics-and-the-bomb","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}