TY - BOOK AU - MILLER Nicholas L. AU - VOLPE Tristan A. TI - The rise of the autocratic nuclear marketplace PY - 2023/// KW - ECONOMIC STATECRAFT KW - NUCLEAR TRADE N2 - The United States established itself as the dominant supplier of civil nuclear technology in the 1960s. But Moscow soon caught up, supplanting Washington after the Cold War. What led to the rise of this autocratic nuclear marketplace? We identify two factors. First, polarity shapes the motives for states to pursue civil nuclear exports. The superpowers faced strong motivations under bipolarity, but unipolarity put greater pressure on Russia to compete for influence with nuclear exports. Second, regime type affects state capacity to execute this strategy. We find that Moscow enjoyed an autocratic advantage, which insulated its nuclear industry from domestic opposition UR - https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01402390.2022.2052725 ER -