Nuclear weapons proliferation in the next decade / editor, Peter Lavoy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

INTRODUCTION: 1. Nuclear proliferation over the next decade: causes, warning signs, and policy responses / Peter R. Lavoy -- INSIGHTS FROM THE PAST: THEORY, INTELLIGENCE, AND POLICY: 2. Theories of nuclear proliferation: the state of the field / Jacques E. C. Hymans ; 3. Countering proliferation: insights from past "wins, losses, and draws" / Lewis A. Dunn ; 5. Identifying nuclear aspirants and their pathways to the bomb / Robert J. Einhorn -- PAST CASES OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION AND NUCLEAR REVERSAL: 6. Nuclear proliferation motivations: lessons from Pakistan / Feroz Hassan Khan ; 7. South Africa's nuclear weapons policies / Stephen F. Burgess ; 8. Lessons learned from Iran's pursuit of nuclear weapons / Mark Fitzpatrick ; 9. Nuclear u-turns: learning from South Korean and Taiwanese rollback / Rebecca K. C. Hersman and Robert Peters ; 10. Egypt's nuclear weapons program: lessons learned / Maria Rost Rublee -- FUTURE NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION RISKS: 11. Nuclear proliferation in Europe: Could it still happen? / Bruno Tertrais ; 12. The future of nuclear weapons in the Middle East / Abbas Kodhim ; 13. Future nuclear proliferation scenarios in Northeast Asia / James Clay Moltz ; 14. Prospects for nuclear proliferation in Southeast Asia, 2006-2016 / Michael S. Malley ; 15. Assessing potential nuclear proliferation networks in Latin America, 2006-2016 / Harold A. Trinkuna -- NEW DYNAMICS IN THE PROLIFERATION ENVIRONMENT: 16. The nuclear energy market and the nonproliferation regime / Chaim Braun ; 17. Peering in the abyss: non-state actors and the 2016 proliferation environment.