The Proliferation Puzzle: Why Nuclear Weapons Spread (And What Results) by Zachary S.Davis; Benjamin FrankelReview by: Eliot A. CohenForeign Affairs, Vol. 73, No. 4 (Jul. - Aug., 1994), p. 166Published by: Council on Foreign RelationsStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20046772 .

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Weapons Spread (And What Results). EDITED BY ZACHARY S. DAVIS AND

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Cass, 1993,356 pp. $37.50 (paper). An earnest and daunting collection of

essays, most of which attempt to bring

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weapons proliferation. Those not tem

peramentally inclined to explore the

nuances of "structural realism" and com

peting doctrines may lose patience with

some of the essays. Even readers who

believe in the utility of theory in a world

whose structure now seems quite uncertain

may shake their heads at two essays that

resort to formal modeling to explain nuclear proliferation. Still, some of the

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example, is a model of sobriety and insight in a revision of his well-known essay on

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