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Kaufman, Robert Gordon.

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The United States and naval limitation, 1921-1938.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The United States and naval limitation, 1921-1938./
Author:	Kaufman, Robert Gordon.
Description:	528 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-10, Section: A, page: 3147.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International49-10A.
Subject:	Political Science, International Law and Relations. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=8827595

The United States and naval limitation, 1921-1938.
Kaufman, Robert Gordon.

The United States and naval limitation, 1921-1938. - 528 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 49-10, Section: A, page: 3147.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 1988.

This study analyses, systematically and from the American point of view, the naval arms limitation process of the interwar years with Great Britain and Japan, which culminated in three treaties: the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, the London Naval Treaty of 1930, and the London Naval Treaty of 1936. It focuses mainly on the following: the negotiations leading up to the treaties; the domestic politics of naval limitation; the quest to measure parity meaningfully; American decisionmakers' hopes and expectations for the treaties; the doctrinal premises, theories of the arms race, and technological assumptions underpinning the treaties; the politics of verification; the effects of the naval treaties and the process of naval limitation on naval doctrine and deployment; the consequences of political asymmetries between open and closed societies for the course and outcome of the negotiations; how and with what success American decisionmakers attempted to reconcile naval limitation with U.S. foreign policy commitments and military capabilities. The final chapter also draws some tentative, qualified, and circumspect comparisons and contrasts between naval arms limitation during the interwar years and arms control in the nuclear age.Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017399
Political Science, International Law and Relations.

The United States and naval limitation, 1921-1938.
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520 $a This study analyses, systematically and from the American point of view, the naval arms limitation process of the interwar years with Great Britain and Japan, which culminated in three treaties: the Washington Naval Treaty of 1922, the London Naval Treaty of 1930, and the London Naval Treaty of 1936. It focuses mainly on the following: the negotiations leading up to the treaties; the domestic politics of naval limitation; the quest to measure parity meaningfully; American decisionmakers' hopes and expectations for the treaties; the doctrinal premises, theories of the arms race, and technological assumptions underpinning the treaties; the politics of verification; the effects of the naval treaties and the process of naval limitation on naval doctrine and deployment; the consequences of political asymmetries between open and closed societies for the course and outcome of the negotiations; how and with what success American decisionmakers attempted to reconcile naval limitation with U.S. foreign policy commitments and military capabilities. The final chapter also draws some tentative, qualified, and circumspect comparisons and contrasts between naval arms limitation during the interwar years and arms control in the nuclear age.
520 $a The study argues, generally, that notwithstanding their positive accomplishments, the process of naval limitation and the treaties also had serious costs of the United States. If the naval treaties contributed to improving Anglo-American relations during the interwar years; if the Washington Naval Treaty contributed to the detente of the 1920's which included Japan; if Anglo-American preparedness at the outset of the Pacific War mainly reflected other forces at work in the democracies during the interwar years besides the process of naval limitation, the American reaction to the treaties, Japan's steady buildup during their duration, and its clandestine breakout from the treaties thereafter secured for the Imperial Navy a transitory but decisive margin of naval superiority--a necessary condition for Japan's predatory policy toward China and Japanese decisionmakers' miscalculation to attack the United States in December of 1941. The study argues, however, that the experiment with naval limitation was not a total mistake. It made sense during the peaceful 1920's. It became folly only in the 1930's when world condition had changed manifestly for the worse.
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