Nuclear disarmament : a critical assessment / edited by Bård Nikolas, Vik Steen and Olav Njølstad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Njølstad, Olav, editor.

Steen, Bård (Nikolas Vik), editor.

Series:

Routledge global security studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nuclear disarmament.

Nuclear nonproliferation.

Physical Description:

xix, 305 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

"This volume of essays 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 most the most likely and realistic to succeed. The essays 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 prevent genuine debates from taking place. This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear proliferation, arms control, security studies and International Relations"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Is "old school" nuclear disarmament dead? / Lawrence Freedman

Was nuclear disarmament ever alive? / Charles L. Glaser

Why nuclear disarmament and strategic stability are incompatible / Keir A. Lieber and Daryl G. Press

Nuclear weapons as a wicked problem in a complex world / Patricia M. Lewis

The Nuclear Ban Treaty and humanitarian strategies to eliminate nuclear threats / Rebecca Johnson

Decreeing abolition? The pitfalls of a treaty-based approach for getting to zero / James M. Acton

Nuclear ethics and the Ban Treaty / Brad Roberts

What can the incremental approach to nuclear disarmament deliver? / Angela Kane

Phased approach to nuclear arms control / Alexei Arbatov

Nuclear and climate connections: the history, evolution, and implications / Christine Parthemore

Nuclear disarmament, nuclear energy, and climate change: exploring the linkages / Matthew Bunn

Emerging non-nuclear technology and the future of global nuclear order / Andrew Futter with Benjaim Zala

Dim hope for disarmament and approaching risk of build up / Wu Riqiang

Forecasting nuclear disarmament: can the NPT get us to the finish line? / William C. Potter

Radical departures from the status quo and their impacts on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament: positive and negative / Philip E. Coyle

How will the nuclear 21st century end? / Bruno Tertrais.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Nuclear disarmament

ISBN:

9780367133665

0367133660

9780367133672

0367133679

OCLC:

1088924372