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Wednesday, October 2, 2019, 10:00am - 11:30am

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Fainsod Room, Littauer 324, Harvard Kennedy School, 79 JFK St., Cambridge

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https://www.belfercenter.org/event/right-tool-job-foreign-policy-effectiveness-and-nuclear-proliferation

Event Description:

The international community has worked for decades to combat the
spread of nuclear weapons, but while some efforts succeeded in halting
or even rolling back that spread, many others have backfired with
dangerous consequences. As a result, those hoping to combat ongoing
proliferation are left asking, of all these imperfect options, which
policies work best, and do some actually do more harm than good? To
answer these questions, Petrovics uses original data from 1945-2012
and within-case analysis of Iran and North Korea to test the
effectiveness of common engagement strategies for combating nuclear
proliferation. She shows that often cooperative inducements are more
effective than coercive strategies, leading to nuclear reversal more
often and with a lower risk of inadvertently increasing proliferation
instead. But not all states are equally capable of combating
proliferation; cooperation is most effective when offered by a rival
power. However, this does not mean that great powers, or even
superpowers, are always more effective. In fact, when these states
instead choose to coerce they risk spurring greater proliferation.
This work provides important policy insights for ongoing proliferation
challenges today.

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Wednesday, October 2, 2019 - 10:00 to 11:30

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