The article tries to explain why China, after having launched a crash programme in the 6 mid-1950s to develop a nuclear deterrent, did not formulate a clear operational doctrine with 7 respect to the targeting and employment of atomic weapons until the mid-1980s. Propositions 8 derived from neoclassical realism are used to shed some light on this puzzling aspect of China’s 9 nuclear doctrine. The general hypothesis of the study is that, international predicaments 10 notwithstanding, China’s domestic politics prevented the possibility of articulating a clear and 11 detailed nuclear doctrine during the period following the first nuclear test, when such a doctrine 12 was more necessary.

Politics does not stop at the ‘nuclear edge’: neoclassical realism and the making of China’s military doctrine / Rosa, Paolo; Foradori, Paolo. - In: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI SCIENZA POLITICA. - ISSN 0048-8402. - 2017:(2017). [10.1017/ipo.2017.13]

Politics does not stop at the ‘nuclear edge’: neoclassical realism and the making of China’s military doctrine

Rosa, Paolo;Foradori, Paolo
2017-01-01

Abstract

The article tries to explain why China, after having launched a crash programme in the 6 mid-1950s to develop a nuclear deterrent, did not formulate a clear operational doctrine with 7 respect to the targeting and employment of atomic weapons until the mid-1980s. Propositions 8 derived from neoclassical realism are used to shed some light on this puzzling aspect of China’s 9 nuclear doctrine. The general hypothesis of the study is that, international predicaments 10 notwithstanding, China’s domestic politics prevented the possibility of articulating a clear and 11 detailed nuclear doctrine during the period following the first nuclear test, when such a doctrine 12 was more necessary.
2017
Rosa, Paolo; Foradori, Paolo
Politics does not stop at the ‘nuclear edge’: neoclassical realism and the making of China’s military doctrine / Rosa, Paolo; Foradori, Paolo. - In: RIVISTA ITALIANA DI SCIENZA POLITICA. - ISSN 0048-8402. - 2017:(2017). [10.1017/ipo.2017.13]
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