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第26回優秀賞in the Soviet Union, a weakening domestic economy began to stymie the capacity forthe government to continue the nuclear arms race with its rivals 24 .Domestic political preferences can therefore have a significant bearing uponhow a state orients its nuclear weapons policy. When supported by a favorableinternational environment, the prospects of nuclear disarmament can be significantlyincreased. Thus, a more secure international environment resulting from thewithdrawal of Cuban military forces from Angola, would have reduced the nationalsecurity risks posed to South Africa as it destroyed its nuclear weapons 25 . Similarly,having secured a reliable partnership with the US, the Soviet Union was able tocommit to nuclear arms reduction without having to compromise its national securityinterests whilst simultaneously, being able to meet its domestic political demands.International Political EnvironmentBalance of power politics has always been a raison d’etre for possessing nuclearweapons. Embodied in the mutually assured destruction (MAD) doctrine is thebelief that if attacked with nuclear weapons, a nuclear weapons state could retaliateproportionately to maximize the destruction of the aggressor's strategic forces. Astrategy of deterrence became an effective way of mitigating the threat of an attackfrom nuclear weapons 26 as the aggressor was assured that it would suffer the samefate as its victim.In an international political economy, such a strategy is significantly weakenedby the distributed nature of national interests and power. Increasingly, throughinternationalcommerceandmulti-ethnicdiasporas,statesarepoliticallyand24 Ikenberry J, Deumey D. 2009, The Unraveling of the Cold War Settlement. Survival. 51:6:41-47 & Brown A. 2007,Perestroika and the End of the Cold War. Cold War History 7:4-7 Noting the relative decline of the Soviet Union'seconomyatthesametimeasSTARTIandSTARTIIwerenegotiated.25 McNamee & Mills, Op.cit:330. The author's cite the withdrawal of Cuban forces from Africa in 1989. At the sametime, there was domestic pressure on the De Klerk government to fund social programs and the pressure placedontheAtomicEnergyCorporationtocutexpenses(Burgess,2006).26 Hansell C & Perfilyev, N. 2006, Together Towards Nuclear Zero, The Non-Proliferation Review 16:3.435-461. Forexample, the article examines the deterrence strategy between Russia and China.769