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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on the Contributors -- An Anxious Decade: Nuclear Proliferation in the 1990s -- Opaque Nuclear Proliferation -- Opaque Proliferation: The Israeli Case -- Facing the Unavoidable: Israel's Nuclear Monopoly Revisited -- Tacit Bargaining and Stable Proliferation in South Asia -- Opaque Proliferation and the Fate of the Non-Proliferation Regime -- Opaque Proliferation and the Public Agenda -- Choosing Nuclear Arsenals: Prescriptions and Predictions for New Nuclear Powers -- Nuclear Tests and Nuclear Weapons -- 'Opaque Nuclear Proliferation' and the Political Selection of Arms Control Concepts

Amos Perlmutter has devoted his academic career to the study of comparative politics, international relations and modern authoritarianism. He has written 14 books and more than 70 articles in academic journals. He has also been a prolific contributor to newspapers in the United States and abroad and offered commentary on TV and radio shows. These essays analyse and explain some of his thinking

Realism has been the subject of critical scrutiny for some time and this examination aims to identify and define its strengths and shortcomings, making a contribution to the study of international relations.

Political realism sees politics as a permanent struggle for power and security. The essays in this volume examine the tradition of realist political analysis of international relations from the Sophists and Thucydides to the modern era.