Academic Writings

BOOKS

• Jacques E. C. Hymans, The Psychology of Nuclear Proliferation: Identity, Emotions and Foreign Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• Jacques E. C. Hymans, Achieving Nuclear Ambitions: Scientists, Politicians, and Proliferation (Cambridge University Press, 2012)

SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

• This page only contains a sampling of my scholarly output. For a full list, see my Google Scholar page or this website’s CV page.
• The papers below are sorted by Research Area:
  Research Area 1: Nuclear and International Security-Energy-Environment;
  Research Area 2: Culture and Identity

  Research Area 1: International Security-Energy-Environment

• “The Bomb as God: A Metaphor that Impedes Nuclear Disarmament” Security Studies Vol. 33, No. 1 (2024), pp. 1-29.
• “To drill or not to drill: determinants of geothermal energy project siting in Japan” (OPEN ACCESS) Co-authored with Fumiya Uchikoshi. Environmental Politics Vol. 31, No. 3 (2022), pp. 407-428.
• “After Fukushima: Veto Players and Japanese Nuclear Policy” (pdf) in Anne Allison and Frank Baldwin, eds., Japan: The Precarious Years Ahead (NYU Press, 2015), pp. 110-138.
• “The Dynamics of Nuclear Politics: Lessons from Latin America” (pdf) in Jorge Domínguez and Ana Covarrubias, eds., The Routledge Handbook on Latin America and the World (Routledge, 2015), pp. 362-375.
• “Why Recognize? Explaining Victorian Britain’s Decision to Recognize the Sovereignty of Imperial Japan” (pdf) Korean Journal of International Studies Vol. 12, No. S1 (May 2014), pp. 49-78.
• “No Cause for Panic: Key Lessons from the Political Science Literature on Nuclear Proliferation” International Journal Vol. 69, No. 1 (March 2014), pp. 85-93.
• “The Threat of Nuclear Proliferation: Perception and Reality” (pdf) Ethics and International Affairs, Vol. 27, No. 3 (September 2013), pp. 281-298
• Iran and the Nuclear Threshold: Where Is the Line? (pdf) Co-authored with Matthew S. Gratias. Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 20, No. 1 (March 2013), pp. 13-38.
• Botching the Bomb: Why Many Nuclear Weapons Programs Fail—And Why Iran’s Might, Too (pdf) Foreign Affairs, Vol. 91, No. 3 (May-June 2012), pp. 44-53.
• Veto Players, Nuclear Energy, and Nonproliferation: Domestic Institutional Barriers to a Japanese Nuclear Bomb (pdf) International Security, Vol. 36, No. 2 (Fall 2011), pp. 154-189.
• Proliferation Implications of Civil Nuclear Cooperation: Theory and a Case Study of the Yugoslav Experience (pdf) Security Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1 (March 2011), pp. 73-104.
• Nuclear Proliferation and Non-Proliferation (pdf) In Robert A. Denemark, ed., The International Studies Encyclopedia (London: Blackwell, 2010)
• When Does a State become a ‘Nuclear Weapon State’? An Exercise in Measurement Validation (pdf) Nonproliferation Review,Vol. 17, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 161-180
• Britain and Hiroshima (pdf) Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 32, No. 5 (October 2009), pp. 767-797.
• Assessing North Korea’s Nuclear Intentions and Capacities: A New Approach (pdf) Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2008)
• Theories of Nuclear Proliferation: The State of the Field (pdf) Nonproliferation Review Vol. 13, No. 3 (November 2006), pp. 455-465
• A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing: France’s Struggle with Preventive Force (pdf) In William W. Keller and Gordon M. Mitchell, eds., Hitting First: Preventive Force in US Security Strategy (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006), pp. 199-216
• The Roots of the Washington Threat Consensus (pdf) In Betty Glad and Christopher Dolan, eds, Striking First: The Bush Doctrine and the Reshaping of US Foreign Policy (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004), pp. 33-45.
• Why Do States Acquire Nuclear Weapons? Comparing the Cases of India and France (pdf) In Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century, ed. D. R. SarDesai and Raju G. C . Thomas (Palgrave, 2002), pp, 139-160.
• Of Gauchos and Gringos: Why Argentina Never Wanted the Bomb, and Why the United States Thought It Did (pdf) Security Studies, vol. 10, no. 3 (Spring 2001), pp. 153-185.
• Isotopes and Identity: Australia and the Nuclear Weapons Option, 1949-1999 (pdf) Nonproliferation Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 1-23.

Research Area 2: Culture and Identity

• “It’s All About the Benjamins: Why Banknotes Look As They Do, and Why You Should Care” (OPEN ACCESS) Brown Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer 2023), pp. 45-60.
• “The Diffusion of International Norms of Banknote Iconography: A Case Study of the New Taiwan Dollar,” Co-authored with Ronan Tse-min Fu, Political Geography Vol. 57 (March 2017), pp. 49-59.
• East is East, and West is West? Currency Iconography as Nation-Branding in the Wider Europe (pdf) Political Geography Vol. 29, No. 2 (February 2010), pp. 97-108
• “India’s Soft Power and Vulnerability” India Review, Vol. 8, No. 3 (August 2009), pp. 234-265.
• Money for Mars? The Euro Banknotes and European Identity (pdf) In Robert Fishman and Anthony Messina, eds, The Year of the Euro (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006).
• What Counts as History and How Much Does History Count? The Case of French Secondary Education (pdf) In Yasemin Soysal and Hanna Schissler, eds., The Nation, Europe, and the World: Textbooks and Curricula in Transition (New York: Berghahn Books, 2005)
• International patterns in National Identity Content: The Case of Japanese Banknote Iconography (pdf) Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (May-August 2005)
• The Changing Color of Money: European Currency Iconography and Collective Identity (pdf) European Journal of International Relations, vol. 10, no. 1 (March 2004).
• Applying Social Identity Theory to the Study of International Politics: A Plea for Caution (pdf)
  Paper originally presented to the International Studies Association conference, New Orleans, 2002