The causes and consequences of arms races

Annual Review of Political Science

Volumn 3, Issue , 2000, Pages 251-276

  Glaser, Charles L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Arms control; Arms races; Bureaucratic politics; Spiral model; Structural realism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034355374     PISSN: 10942939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.polisci.3.1.251     Document Type: Review

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