Humanitarian disarmament an historical enquiry Treasa Dunworth

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunworth, Treasa Moira, author.

Contributor:

Cambridge University Press

Series:

Cambridge studies in international and comparative law

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Humanitarian law.

Arms control.

War (International law).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY, USA Cambridge University Press 2020

Summary:

"This book argues that the humanitarian framing of disarmament is not a novel development, but rather represents a re-emergence of a much older and long-standing sensibility of humanitarianism in disarmament. It rejects the 'big bang' theory that presents the Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention 1997, and its successors -- the Convention on Cluster Munitions 2008, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 2017 -- as a paradigm shift from an older traditional state-centric approach towards a more progressive humanitarian approach. It shows how humanitarian disarmament has a long and complex history, which includes these treaties. This book further argues that the attempt to locate the birth of humanitarian disarmament in these treaties is part of the attempt to cleanse humanitarian disarmament of politics, presenting humanitarianism as a morally superior discourse in disarmament. However, humanitarianism carries its own blind spots and has its own hegemonic leanings. It may be silencing other potentially more transformative discourses." -- Front matter

Contents:

Introduction

The Origins of Humanitarian Disarmament

The Manhattan Project To 'Operation Rolling Thunder' : Humanitarian Disarmament Sidelined

Humanitarian Disarmament Rising : The Vietnam War and The Campaigns Against Indiscriminate Weapons

Humanitarian Disarmament Triumphant? : The Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention 1997

Humanitarian Disarmament Consolidated? : The Convention on Cluster Munitions

The Humanitarian Campaigns Against Nuclear Weapons

Rethinking Humanitarian Disarmament

Conclusion

Notes:

Based on author's thesis (doctoral - University of Melbourne, 2019) issued under title: 'What's past is prologue' : humanitarian disarmament from St Petersburg to New York

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on print version record

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781108644105

1108644104

OCLC:

1184673277

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