Academic Writings

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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)

ERRATUM (February 28, 2012)

On Page 31 of Achieving Nuclear Ambitions, the correlation coefficient is reported as 0.77. The correct correlation coefficient is -0.57.

The relationship between the variables remains strongly statistically significant.

Selected Journal Articles

(For full list, see CV page)

Research Area 1: International Security

• “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” (link to International Journal)
  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)
  Written with Matthew S. Gratias, published in 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)
  Published in 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)
  Published in 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)
  Published in Security Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1 (March 2011), pp. 73-104.
• Nuclear Proliferation and Non-Proliferation (pdf)
  Published in Robert A. Denemark, ed., The International Studies Encyclopedia (London: Blackwell, 2010) and at http://www.isacompendium.com/public/
• When Does a State become a ‘Nuclear Weapon State’? An Exercise in Measurement Validation (pdf)
  Published in The Nonproliferation Review,Vol. 17, No. 1 (March 2010), pp. 161-180
• Britain and Hiroshima (pdf)
  Published in 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)
  Published in Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 8, No. 2 (2008)
• Theories of Nuclear Proliferation: The State of the Field (pdf)
  Published in The Nonproliferation Review Vol. 13, No. 3 (November 2006), pp. 455-465
• A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing: France’s Struggle with Preventive Force (pdf)
  Published 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) (Be patient: file is large.)
  Published 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)
  Published 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)
  Published in Security Studies, vol. 10, no. 3 (Spring 2001), pp. 153-185.
• Isotopes and Identity: Australia and the Nuclear Weapons Option, 1949-1999 (pdf)
  Published in The Nonproliferation Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (Spring 2000), pp. 1-23.

Research Area 2: Identity Construction and Content

• “The Arrival of Psychological Constructivism” (pdf)
  Published in International Theory Vol. 2, No. 3 (Fall 2010), pp. 461-467.
• East is East, and West is West? Currency Iconography as Nation-Branding in the Wider Europe (pdf)
  Published in Political Geography Vol. 29, No. 2 (February 2010), pp. 97-108
• “India’s Soft Power and Vulnerability” (link to Ingenta Connect)
  Published in India Review, Vol. 8, No. 3 (August 2009), pp. 234-265.
• Money for Mars? The Euro Banknotes and European Identity (pdf)
  Published 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)
  Published 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)
  Published in Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2 (May-August 2005)
• The Changing Color of Money: European Currency Iconography and Collective Identity (pdf)
  Published in 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