Politics and the Bomb

<p>Epistemic 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. </p><p>Thoroughly documented and making excellent use of source material <em>Politics and the Bomb</em> 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.</p>