Abstract
The study of the proliferation incentives and disincentives of those internationally isolated countries known as the ‘garrison’ or ‘pariah’ states opens a new but difficult avenue in non-proliferation research. The approach is new in so far as it runs counter to the ‘classic’ trends of strategic thinking about the spread of nuclear weapons. While nuclear proliferation has traditionally been envisaged either as a purely national problem which needs to be solved on a case-by-case basis or as a global phenomenon requiring a global solution, the garrison states approach develops a ‘group theory of proliferation’.1 The aim will be to identify a group of states that share a similar set of politico-military characteristics, which in turn may be the crucial links to the nuclear option.
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Lellouche, P. (1982). The Garrison States. In: Kincade, W.H., Bertram, C. (eds) Nuclear Proliferation in the 1980s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-06163-1_4
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