The Politics Of Nuclear Disarmament

Author : Tim Street
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000365115

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This book explores what political conditions must be established and what obstacles overcome for the fi ve offi cial Nuclear Weapon States (NWS)— China, France, Russia, the UK and US— to eliminate their nuclear weapons. The different views and positions of a range of actors concerning nuclear weapons issues— including elite perspectives and public opinion— and the political assumptions underpinning them, are discussed to develop a more democratic approach to disarmament. Addressing the lack of detailed analysis concerning the meaning of nuclear disarmament for the domestic political orders of NWS, the book critically explores different approaches to and theories of disarmament within legal, political and technical literatures and orthodox and critical theory. It also builds on previous discussions of nuclear possession, restraint, arms control, and disarmament— concerning both nuclear possessor and non- possessor states— identifying the insights these works provide regarding how NWS disarmament may be advanced. Contributing to theoretical debates concerning how domestic politics interacts with and determines states’ international behaviour, the book will be of interest to all scholars and students of history, politics, international relations, security studies, military history, war studies, peace studies, confl ict, democracy, and global governance.

Author : Andrew Futter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781473917163

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The Politics of Nuclear Weapons by Andrew Futter Pdf

This book provides an introduction to political and strategic aspects of nuclear weaponry. It offers an accessible overview of the concept of nuclear weapons, outlines how thinking about these weapons has developed and considers how nuclear threats can continue to be managed in the future. It includes: Coverage of nuclear testing, proliferation, strategy, global actors and disarmament. Analysis of contemporary topics such as nuclear terrorism. A timeline of key nuclear events. Annotated further reading lists helping you to locate sources for essays and assignments. Summaries, study questions and a glossary of key terms Free SAGE journal articles available on the Resources tab The author will be providing regular updates to his suggested web resources, so be sure to check the Resources tab for the most up-to-date. The Politics of Nuclear Weapons is essential reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in Nuclear Politics.

Author : Andrew Futter
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030487379

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The Politics of Nuclear Weapons by Andrew Futter Pdf

This comprehensively updated second edition provides an introduction to the political, normative, technological and strategic aspects of nuclear weaponry. It offers an accessible overview of the concept of nuclear weapons, outlines how thinking about these weapons has developed and considers how nuclear threats can continue to be managed in the future. This book will help you to understand what nuclear weapons are, the science behind their creation and operation, why states build them in the first place, and whether it will be possible for the world to banish these weapons entirely. Essential reading for all students of International Relations, Security Studies and Military History.

Author : Martin H. Ryle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Nuclear disarmament
ISBN : UCAL:B3891752

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The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament by Martin H. Ryle Pdf

Om interessekonflikten inden for alle kernevåben stater mellem civilbefolkningen og de væbnede styrker. I bogen kædes kampagnen imod kernevåben sammen med kampen for demokrati, sund fornuft og for selve livet og understreger kampagnens internationale karakter.

Author : Bård Nikolas Vik Steen,Olav Njølstad
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429649356

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Nuclear Disarmament by Bård Nikolas Vik Steen,Olav Njølstad Pdf

This volume, Nuclear Disarmament, provides a comprehensive overview of nuclear disarmament and a critical assessment of the way forward. Comprising essays by leading scholars on nuclear disarmament, the book highlights arguments in favour and against a world without nuclear weapons (global zero). In doing so, it proposes a new baseline from which an everchanging nuclear arms control and disarmament agenda can be assessed. Numerous paths to nuclear disarmament have been proposed and scrutinized, and with an increasing number of countries signing off on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, it is vital to ask which path is the most likely and realistic to succeed. The chapters here also address the rapid pace of technological, political and climatic developments, in relation to nuclear disarmament, and how they add to the complexity of the issue. Taking care to unite the different tribes in the debate, this book provides a community of dissent at a time when academic tribalism all too often prevents genuine debates from taking place. This book will be of interest to students of nuclear proliferation, arms control, security studies and International Relations.

Author : Nik Hynek,Michal Smetana
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317565222

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Global Nuclear Disarmament by Nik Hynek,Michal Smetana Pdf

This book examines the issue of nuclear disarmament in different strategic, political, and regional contexts. This volume seeks to provide a rich theoretical and practical insight to one of the major topics in the field of international security: global abolishment of nuclear weapons. Renewed calls for a nuclear weapons-free world have sparked a wide academic debate on both the attainability of such goal and the steps that should be taken. Comparably less attention, however, has been paid to theoretically informed considerations of the consequences of nuclear abolition. Comprising essays from leading scholars and experts within the field, this collection discusses the fundamental theoretical and conceptual foundations of nuclear disarmament and subsequently tries to assess its hypothetical impact in global and regional contexts. The varied methodological approach of the contributors aims to advance a multi-theoretical and multi-perspectival view of the issue. The book is organized in three main sections: ‘Strategic Perspectives’, dealing with the specific constraints and facilitators for the states to achieve their core objectives; ‘Political Perspectives’, with the focus on the power of norms, belief-systems and ideas; and ‘Regional Perspectives’, with the analyses of seven regional and/or state-specific nuclear contexts. As a whole, the volume provides a detailed, complex overview of the risks and opportunities that are embedded in the vision of a nuclear weapon-free world. This book will be of great interest to students of nuclear proliferation, arms control, war and conflict studies, international relations and security studies.

Author : Carl Ungerer,Marianne Hanson
Publisher : Allen & Unwin
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Nuclear arms control
ISBN : 1865080977

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The Politics of Nuclear Non-proliferation by Carl Ungerer,Marianne Hanson Pdf

The politics of nuclear weapons proliferation is high on the international agenda. Deep divisions have emerged between the nuclear haves and have-nots over the appropriate next steps in arms control and disarmament. Here a group of Australian and international scholars analyze some of the key issues in the nuclear non-proliferation debate.

Author : Marzieh Kouhi Esfahani,Ariabarzan Mohammadi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351858113

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Nuclear Politics in Asia by Marzieh Kouhi Esfahani,Ariabarzan Mohammadi Pdf

Asia has the world’s highest concentration of nuclear weapons and the most significant recent developments related to nuclear proliferation, as well as the world’s most critical conflicts and considerable political instability. The containment and prevention of nuclear proliferation, especially in Asia, continues to be a grave concern for the international community. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the state of nuclear arsenals, nuclear ambitions and nuclear threats across different parts of Asia. It covers the Middle East (including Israel), China, India-Pakistan and their confrontation, as well as North Korea. It discusses the conventional warfare risks, risks from non-state armed groups, and examines the attempts to limit and control nuclear weapons, both international initiatives and American diplomacy and interventions. The book concludes by assessing the possibility of nuclear revival, the potential outcomes of international approaches to nuclear disarmament, and the efficacy of coercive diplomacy in containing nuclear proliferation.

Author : George H. Quester
Publisher : Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Arms race
ISBN : UOM:39015054104693

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The Politics of Nuclear Proliferation by George H. Quester Pdf

Author : William Potter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351225045

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Nuclear Politics and the Non-Aligned Movement by William Potter Pdf

The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) is the largest and most diverse political grouping of states engaged on issues related to nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament. Drawing on the authors first-hand experiences as members of NAM observer-state delegations in NPT and IAEA negotiations, as well as the findings of a larger CNS research project on NAM nuclear politics, the book will provide important new insights about how a small subset of NAM states has tended to dominate NAM politics and have promoted policies that are often at odds with those advanced by Western states on issues such as nuclear terrorism, IAEA safeguards, nuclear export controls, multinational fuel arrangements, proliferation in the Middle East, NPT, and nuclear arms control and disarmament. Based on an analysis of NAM perspectives, politics, and priorities, the book will provide practical recommendations for engaging NAM members in a more constructive fashion on issues related to nuclear nonproliferation, disarmament, peaceful use, and counter-nuclear terrorism. Particular attention will be given to problems likely to be encountered when Iran assumes the chairmanship of NAM in 2012 and how these difficulties can best be mitigated in the lead up to the next NPT Review Conference.

Author : Bhumitra Chakma
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317020325

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The Politics of Nuclear Weapons in South Asia by Bhumitra Chakma Pdf

An important and critical re-evaluation of South Asia's post-tests nuclear politics, in contrast to other books, this volume emphasises the political dimension of South Asia's nuclear weapons, explains how the bombs are used as politico-strategic assets rather than pure battlefield weapons and how India and Pakistan utilise them for politico-strategic purposes in an extremely complex and competitive South Asian strategic landscape. Written by a group of perceptive observers of South Asia, this volume evaluates the current state of Indo-Pakistani nuclear deterrents, the challenges that the two countries confront in building their nuclear forces, the post-test nuclear doctrines of the two strategic rivals, the implications of Indo-Pakistani politics for regional cooperation, the role of two systemic actors (USA and China) in the region's nuclear politics and the critical issues of confidence-building and nuclear arms control.

Author : Rizwana Abbasi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000439557

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Building a Road to Nuclear Disarmament by Rizwana Abbasi Pdf

This book while comprehending the contemporary global security environment, offers a new roadmap for nuclear disarmament by creating a balance between deterrence supporters and disarmament advocators. The author identifies the divide between competing approaches such as traditional security-centric aspects and humanity-centered disarmament perspectives, tackling the complex question of how to balance some states’ requirements for effective nuclear deterrence with other states’ long-term desire for a nuclear-free world. The book explores how new technologies such as cyber and Artificial Intelligence advances are available to more countries than nuclear technology, and could level the playing field for weaker nuclear weapons states. It also looks into the issues which continue to be obstacles in the way of convincing the nuclear weapon states on nuclear disarmament presented in this volume. The author argues that the gap between states' security needs and disarmament aspirations can be bridged by building a new roadmap and creating new security environment. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars, researchers, policymakers, NGOs and members of the diplomatic community, in the fields of security studies, strategic studies and nuclear policy.

Author : Paul Joseph,Simon Rosenblum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 644 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015015207676

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Search for Sanity by Paul Joseph,Simon Rosenblum Pdf

The most comprehensive survey of literature on nuclear weapons and disarmament currently available.

Author : Robert Ehrlich
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1985-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0873959191

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Waging Nuclear Peace by Robert Ehrlich Pdf

Waging Nuclear Peace is a clear and informative interdisciplinary survey of the issues surrounding nuclear war. It raises and attempts to answer questions that often go unasked. How can we measure the risk of nuclear war? Will slowing the arms race reduce the risk of war? Is disarmament desirable or undesirable in this respect? Robert Ehrlich has succeeded in being as objective as possible, while at the same time taking well-defined positions on a wide range of subjects. Yet the book does not purport to have the answers to the nuclear dilemma. Instead, it assists the reader in thinking through the issues and in coming to a personal conclusion. Comprehensive in its scope, Waging Nuclear Peace encompasses both technical issues, such as the effects of nuclear weapons, and policy issues, such as arms control, the nature of the arms race, and the feasibility of civil defense. It includes material on new findings concerning "nuclear winter" -- the catastrophic change in global climate that might follow a nuclear war.

Author : Andrew Futter
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781473917149

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The Politics of Nuclear Weapons by Andrew Futter Pdf

This book provides an introduction to political and strategic aspects of nuclear weaponry. It offers an accessible overview of the concept of nuclear weapons, outlines how thinking about these weapons has developed and considers how nuclear threats can continue to be managed in the future. It includes: Coverage of nuclear testing, proliferation, strategy, global actors and disarmament. Analysis of contemporary topics such as nuclear terrorism. A timeline of key nuclear events. Annotated further reading lists helping you to locate sources for essays and assignments. Summaries, study questions and a glossary of key terms Free SAGE journal articles available on the Resources tab The author will be providing regular updates to his suggested web resources, so be sure to check the Resources tab for the most up-to-date. The Politics of Nuclear Weapons is essential reading for both undergraduate and postgraduate students taking courses in Nuclear Politics.