Non Nuclear Peace

Author : Tom Sauer,Jorg Kustermans,Barbara Segaert
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030266882

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Non-Nuclear Peace by Tom Sauer,Jorg Kustermans,Barbara Segaert Pdf

This volume examines the possibility of a world without nuclear weapons. It starts from the observation that, although nuclear deterrence has long been dominant in debates about war and peace, recent events show that ridicule and stigmatization of nuclear weapons and their possessors is on the rise. The idea of non-nuclear peace has been around since the beginning of the nuclear revolution, but it may be staging a return. The first part reconstructs the criticism of nuclear peace, both past and present, with a particular emphasis on technology. The second part focuses on the most revolutionary change since the beginning of the nuclear revolution, namely the Humanitarian Initiative and the resulting Nuclear Ban Treaty (2017), which allows imagining non-nuclear peace anew. The third and last part explores the practical and institutional prospects of a peace order without nuclear weapons. If non-nuclear peace advocates want to convince skeptics, they have to come up with practical solutions in the realm of global governance or world government.

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Sipri Monograph
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0198291434

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Security Without Nuclear Weapons? by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

This book examines the question: Is the elimination of nuclear weapons feasible? Individual chapters address the major conceptual, technical, and economic issues in the design of a non-nuclear security regime. Other chapters explore more specialized issues as they relate to the feasibility of the elimination of nuclear weapons: elite perceptions and the decision-making process, verification, nuclear proliferation, fissile materials and warheads, alliance and regional hegemonies, and deterrence.

Author : Michael Krepon
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781503629615

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Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace by Michael Krepon Pdf

The definitive guide to the history of nuclear arms control by a wise eavesdropper and masterful storyteller, Michael Krepon. The greatest unacknowledged diplomatic achievement of the Cold War was the absence of mushroom clouds. Deterrence alone was too dangerous to succeed; it needed arms control to prevent nuclear warfare. So, U.S. and Soviet leaders ventured into the unknown to devise guardrails for nuclear arms control and to treat the Bomb differently than other weapons. Against the odds, they succeeded. Nuclear weapons have not been used in warfare for three quarters of a century. This book is the first in-depth history of how the nuclear peace was won by complementing deterrence with reassurance, and then jeopardized by discarding arms control after the Cold War ended. Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace tells a remarkable story of high-wire acts of diplomacy, close calls, dogged persistence, and extraordinary success. Michael Krepon brings to life the pitched battles between arms controllers and advocates of nuclear deterrence, the ironic twists and unexpected outcomes from Truman to Trump. What began with a ban on atmospheric testing and a nonproliferation treaty reached its apogee with treaties that mandated deep cuts and corralled "loose nukes" after the Soviet Union imploded. After the Cold War ended, much of this diplomatic accomplishment was cast aside in favor of freedom of action. The nuclear peace is now imperiled by no less than four nuclear-armed rivalries. Arms control needs to be revived and reimagined for Russia and China to prevent nuclear warfare. New guardrails have to be erected. Winning and Losing the Nuclear Peace is an engaging account of how the practice of arms control was built from scratch, how it was torn down, and how it can be rebuilt.

Author : Kenneth Neal Waltz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Arms race
ISBN : UCSD:31822021197223

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Peace, Stability, and Nuclear Weapons by Kenneth Neal Waltz Pdf

Author : Ramesh Thakur
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-12-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000516937

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The Nuclear Ban Treaty by Ramesh Thakur Pdf

The contributors to this book describe, discuss, and evaluate the normative reframing brought about by the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (the Ban Treaty), taking you on a journey through its genesis and negotiation history to the shape of the emerging global nuclear order. Adopted by the United Nations on 7 July 2017, the Ban Treaty came into effect on 22 January 2021. For advocates and supporters, weapons that were always immoral are now also illegal. To critics, it represents a profound threat to the stability of the existing global nuclear order with the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty as the normative anchor. As the most significant leap in nuclear disarmament in fifty years and a rare case study of successful state-civil society partnership in multilateral diplomacy, the Ban Treaty challenges the established order. The book’s contributors are leading experts on the Ban Treaty, including senior scholars, policymakers and civil society activists. A vital guide to the Ban Treaty for students of nuclear disarmament, arms control and diplomacy as well as for policymakers in those fields.

Author : Regina Cowen Karp
Publisher : Sipri Monograph
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 019827839X

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Security with Nuclear Weapons? by Regina Cowen Karp Pdf

SIPRIStockholm International Peace Research Institute is an independent institute for scientific research, which aims to further an understanding of the conditions for peaceful solutions to international conflicts and for a stable peace. Over the past twenty years, SIPRI has concentrated on problems ofarmaments, disarmament, and arms regulation. SIPRI is financed mainly by the Swedish Parliament. Its staff, the Governing Board, and the Scientific Council are international.The prospect of large reductions of nuclear weapons poses fundamental questions about the purpose of nuclear weapons. Why have some states chosen to acquire nuclear weapons? How - and why - have these decisions been maintained over time? Why have some states elected to approach, but not cross, thenuclear threshold?This book examines the commonalities and differences in political approaches to nuclear weapons both within and among three groups of states: nuclear, non-nuclear, and threshold. The chapters explore the evolution of thinking about nuclear weapons and the role these weapons play in nationalsecurity planning.The book transcends traditional East-West approaches to analysis of nuclear issues by giving equal prominence to the issues of nuclear proliferation and non-nuclearism. The book also provides a comprehensive analysis of how current approaches to nuclear weapons have evolved both within and amongthe countries under study.

Author : David Krieger
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351485418

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The Challenge of Abolishing Nuclear Weapons by David Krieger Pdf

In the more than sixty years since the advent of nuclear weapons, there has been little meaningful progress toward nuclear disarmament. Some countries have nuclear weapons, while other states are forbidden to acquire them, a status quo that lacks rational basis and cannot be sustained. In this remarkable collection, scholars and policy analysts argue that humankind has a choice: either allow nuclear weapons to continue to proliferate throughout the world or move toward their complete elimination.The vast majority of people on the planet would surely opt to abolish nuclear weapons. But decisions about nuclear weapons are not made by the public, but by small groups of political elites. Consequently, in a world with nuclear weapons, the fate of humanity rests in the hands of a small number of individuals, whose perceptions, communications, and judgment determine whether there is to be a future.The contributors to this volume provide historical perspective on nuclear weapons policy; explore the role of international law in furthering the prospects of nuclear weapons abolition; consider the obstacles to abolition; present a path to achieving a nuclear weapons-free world; and look beyond abolition to consider issues of post-abolition sovereignty and general and complete disarmament. The goal of a nuclear weapons-free world can be awakened by an engaged citizenry bringing pressure from below in demanding action from political leaders. This book contributes to this awakening and engagement.

Author : Michael Tucker,Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 78 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015019178519

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Non-nuclear Powers and the Geneva Conference on Disarmament by Michael Tucker,Canadian Institute for International Peace and Security Pdf

Study of the arms control diplomacy of non-nuclear lesser states, as willing but seldom welcomed third parties to the Soviet-American bilateral dialogue at the Geneva Conference on Disarmament, the only formal multilateral arms control negotiating forum whose membership includes, in addition to the 5 nuclear powers, important non-nuclear states from among the neutral and Third World non-aligned as well as the major Eastern and Western alliances. The study examines the setting at Geneva, the "norm creation" functions of the Conference on Disarmament, and arms control issues.

Author : Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000199574

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Non-Proliferation by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute Pdf

Is the appearance of new nuclear weapon states inevitable? Who are the sponsors and apologists of nuclear weapons, and why are others in favour of renouncing them? What are the implications for international security of the increasingly wide use of nuclear energy? How can nuclear threats be defused? Originally published in 1985, SIPRI's study suggests some answers to these questions. The book examines the situation in a number of countries of key importance for non-proliferation: the two nuclear-weapon states which have declined to join the 1968 Non-Proliferation Treaty (China and France); a group of nuclear ‘threshold’ states also remaining outside the Treaty (Argentina, Brazil, India, Israel, Pakistan, South Africa and Spain); and a group of states, both developed and developing, which for various reasons have joined the Treaty (Canada, Egypt, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland and Taiwan). The focus of the book is on motivations for and against nuclear proliferation. An analysis of these motivations leads the editor to make detailed recommendations aimed at halting the spread of nuclear weapons. Appendices include a list of nuclear facilities in the countries studied, specifying the degree of their coverage by international controls, and other relevant documentation.

Author : T.V. Paul
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804761314

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The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons by T.V. Paul Pdf

An exploration of the rise, persistence, and impact of the tradition of non-use of nuclear weapons followed by nuclear powers for well over sixty years.

Author : Frank Barnaby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Europe
ISBN : UCAL:B4239413

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Defence Without Offence by Frank Barnaby Pdf

Author : Joseph A. Camilleri,Michael Hamel-Green,Fumihiko Yoshida
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780429685941

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The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty by Joseph A. Camilleri,Michael Hamel-Green,Fumihiko Yoshida Pdf

Rising concern over the increasing threat of nuclear war impelled the 2017 United Nations (UN) negotiations and adoption by 122 UN member states of a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The Treaty seeks to ban nuclear weapons globally in the same way chemical and biological weapons have already been prohibited. This book provides the first in-depth comprehensive analysis of the implications and possibilities of the new treaty, drawing on the insights of international relations, international laws, and disarmament experts and specialists from Europe, America, the Asia-Pacific, and the UN. In a context where existing nuclear weapon states have so far declined to be party to the new treaty, the book examines not only its emergence and significance but also the prospects and possibilities for its implementation, the challenges associated with verifying the new agreement, the role of both civil society and governments, and the treaty’s wider implications in addressing regional and global nuclear threats. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Change, Peace & Security but additionally includes the special section articles on the treaty in the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament.

Author : George Perkovich,Toby Dalton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199089703

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Not War, Not Peace? by George Perkovich,Toby Dalton Pdf

The Mumbai blasts of 1993, the attack on the Indian Parliament in 2001, Mumbai 26/11—cross-border terrorism has continued unabated. What can India do to motivate Pakistan to do more to prevent such attacks? In the nuclear times that we live in, where a military counter-attack could escalate to destruction beyond imagination, overt warfare is clearly not an option. But since outright peace-making seems similarly infeasible, what combination of coercive pressure and bargaining could lead to peace? The authors provide, for the first time, a comprehensive assessment of the violent and non-violent options available to India for compelling Pakistan to take concrete steps towards curbing terrorism originating in its homeland. They draw on extensive interviews with senior Indian and Pakistani officials, in service and retired, to explore the challenges involved in compellence and to show how non-violent coercion combined with clarity on the economic, social and reputational costs of terrorism can better motivate Pakistan to pacify groups involved in cross-border terrorism. Not War, Not Peace? goes beyond the much discussed theories of nuclear deterrence and counterterrorism strategy to explore a new approach to resolving old conflicts.

Author : Olav Njølstad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136922879

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Nuclear Proliferation and International Order by Olav Njølstad Pdf

This book examines the state of the nuclear non-proliferation regime and the issues it faces in the early 21st century. Despite the fact that most countries in the world have signed the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) there is growing concern that the NPT is in serious trouble and may not be able to stop the further spread of nuclear weapons. If so, international stability will be undermined, with potentially disastrous consequences, and the vision of a nuclear weapon-free world will become utterly unrealistic. More specifically, the NPT is exposed to four main challenges, explored in this book: challenges from outside, as three countries that have not signed the Treaty – Israel, India and Pakistan – are known to possess nuclear weapons; challenges from within, as some countries that have signed on to the Treaty as non-nuclear weapons states have nevertheless developed or are suspected to be trying to develop nuclear weapons (North Korea and Iran being cases in point); challenges from below in the shape of terrorists and other non-state actors who may want to acquire radioactive materials or even nuclear weapons; and, finally, challenges from above due to the perceived failure of the five legal nuclear weapons states to keep their part of the ‘double bargain’ made by the parties of the NPT and take serious steps towards nuclear disarmament. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation, international security, war and conflict studies and IR in general.

Author : United States. Executive Office of the President. Disarmament Staff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1957
Category : Disarmament
ISBN : UCAL:B4847770

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Pathway to Peace by United States. Executive Office of the President. Disarmament Staff Pdf