Providing assurances about security to another state or states is a potentially useful technique for achieving defense and foreign policy goals. Security assurances play an especially prominent role in the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Empirical research remains limited, however, on the...

Will the spread of nuclear power to new states lead to the spread of nuclear weapons? I argue that the answer will depend on which states get nuclear power, which states acquire sensitive nuclear facilities (uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing) and the rules that govern technology...

This paper analyzes the nature of democratic development in a nation on the process of introducing nuclear power over the period 1960 - 2017 for an unbalanced panel of 171 countries. Given the involved political process of introducing nuclear power and its political importance, as well as the...

In this energy-constrained world, it is often the politics and not the economics that defines access to energy resources. Growing energy demand of the Asian countries, and in particular, countries where conventional fuel choices are inadequate, are prompting them to look for newer energy options...

We explore the impact of an EU-wide nuclear phase-out by 2030 provided the EU energy and climate policy for 2030 is implemented. Using a numerical simulation model of the European energy industry (LIBEMOD), we find that a complete nuclear phase-out in Europe by 2030 has a moderate impact on...

Reviews the prominent works in recent years on the relative merits of total nuclear disarmament, and argue that while nuclear weapons have not become irrelevant, they have become less relevant as a result of the processes of globalization

Nuclear energy already plays a crucial role in reducing emissions from generating electricity. Without expanding this role, it will be extremely difficult to achieve the international goal of avoiding unacceptable changes in global climate. The evidence presented here shows that the climate...