Populist Publics' Affinity for Nuclear Weapons? Explaining Opposition to the Nuclear Sharing Weapons in European Populist Publics.
Extant work studying the relationship between populism and nuclear weapons policy predicts a populist affinity for nuclear weapons. However, this relationship may not be so straightforward in Europe, which relies in part on the nuclear umbrella of the United States for its deterrence. We present a t...
| Publicado en: | International Studies Quarterly Vol. 70; no. 1; pp. 1 - 19 |
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Mar2026
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