In light of North Korea missile tests, worth reflecting on the limits of arms control agreements (assuming that is a goal of the Trump admin).
I highlighted those limits with the INF 👇. Having trouble seeing how an eventual NK-USA Agreement could do better 🤷♂️
But don’t accept my skepticism about arms control agreements.
Take it from a foundational IR text, “The Disarmament Illusion” by Merze Tate
Full text available here:
archive.org/stream/disarma…
Is the Tate book dated? Sure!
But sometimes (most of the time?) the old ideas in IR still hold true 👇
Consider my favorite passage from Tate, which I share with #ChicagoIntroIR students -- it expresses an idea that Waltzs & Mearsheimers of IR would recognize
Indeed, you could read that passage by Tate and basically understand the idea expressed in this recent @IntOrgJournal piece by Fearon
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
@IntOrgJournal So from Europe to the Korean peninsula to Iran, I'm not bullish on the prospects of sustaining arms control.
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ADDENDUM: For more on the design of arms control agreements, check out @sekreps recent @FPA_Jrnl piece
academic.oup.com/fpa/article-ab…
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