Title: The Politics of Verification
First published: 1999
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.
Subjects: Nuclear arms control, Nuclear disarmament, Verification, Foreign relations, United states, foreign relations, Désarmement nucléaire, Armes nucléaires, Contrôle, Vérification, Relations extérieures, Diplomatic relations
Places: United States
LC classification: JZ5675 .G35 1999