The politics of verification
By: Nancy W. Gallagher.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 311
Subjects: Nuclear disarmament.; Nuclear arms control -- Verification.; United States -- Foreign relations.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [285]-301) and index.