The Politics of Verification

How to evaluate compliance is among the most difficult questions that arise during treaty negotiations and ratification debates. In The Politics of Verification, Gallagher explores the causes of verification controversies and the processes through which they are perpetuated or provisionally resolved. By examining nuclear test ban negotiations from the Eisenhower through the Clinton administrations, Gallagher finds that the assumptions about verification that have dominated U.S. policy shape domestic debates in ways that hinder stable agreement on significant test restrictions. She focuses on the dynamic interconnections between domestic and international politics, and analyzes the slow process of coalition building when conflicting interests and ideas create divisions both among and inside states.

First sentence: IN A WORLD IN WHICH STATES FACE CONFLICTING PRESSURES to maximize military capabilities and negotiate mutual restraints, the prospects for arms control often hinge on verification.

Year

1999

Language

English

Publisher

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Editions

1

Pages

336

ISBN

9780801877391

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