The nuclear ban treaty : a transformational reframing of the global nuclear order / edited by Ramesh Thakur.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Thakur, Ramesh, 1948- editor.

Taylor & Francis eBooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (2017 July 7).

Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Nuclear weapons (International law).

Nuclear disarmament.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.

System Details:

text file

Biography/History:

Ramesh Thakur is Emeritus Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University; Senior Research Fellow, Toda Peace Institute; and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of International Affairs. His last post was Director of the Centre for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament at the ANU. He was formerly Senior Vice Rector of the United Nations University (and Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations). Educated in India and Canada, he has held fulltime academic appointments in Fiji, New Zealand, Canada, and Australia and been a consultant to the Australian, New Zealand and Norwegian governments on arms control, disarmament and international security issues. He was a Commissioner and one of the principal authors of The Responsibility to Protect and Principal Writer of Secretary-General Kofi Annan's second reform report; and Co-Convenor of the Asia-Pacific Leadership Network for Nuclear Non-Proliferation and Disarmament. His books include Nuclear Weapons: The State of Play 2015 (CNND); Nuclear Weapons and International Security: Selected Essays (Routledge); andThe United Nations, Peace and Security: From Collective Security to the Responsibility to Protect, 2nd Ed. (Cambridge University Press).

Contents:

Introduction : completing the nuclear disarmament agenda : from the NPT to the Ban Treaty / Ramesh Thakur

The humanitarian initiative and the TPNW / Alexander Kmentt

Cooperation or conflict? : walking the tightrope of NPT and Ban Treaty supporters / Angela Kane

Towards a nuclear restraint regime : from a normative Ban Treaty to a substantive agenda / Manpreet Sethi

Does the TPNW contradict or undermine the NPT? / Tariq Rauf

Harmonising the NPT and Ban Treaty in nuclear risk reduction measures / Rakesh Sood

How many intensive care beds will a nuclear weapon explosion require? / Tom Sauer and Ramesh Thakur

On creating the TPNW verification system / Thomas E. Shea

Nuclear prohibition : The long night's journey into day / Joseph Camilleri

The power of a ban : Outlawing nuclear weapons practices / Joelien Pretorius

Sovereignty as responsibility and the Ban Treaty / Ramesh Thakur

Unhinged leaders and nuclear weapons : it's time to act / Tanya Ogilvie-White

The TPNW : Russia's perspectives / Vladimir Baranovsky

NATO allies, don't dismiss the TPNW / Tom Sauer

Disarming the unarmed : current reality of the nuclear Ban Treaty / Manpreet Sethi

How nuclear-dependent states could respond to the entry into force of the Ban Treaty / Alexander Kmentt

Folding the umbrella nuclear allies, the NPT and the Ban Treaty / Paul Meyer

The nuclear umbrella revisited / Sverre Lodgaard

The Nuclear Ban Treaty is a fact / Jorge Hersschens

Banning nuclear weapons : a role for Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium? / Moritz Kütt, Jan Hoekama and Tom Sauer

In subtle diplomatic move, Canada ceases its opposition to Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty / Douglas Roche

Latin America and quest for nuclear abolition : from the Treaty of Tlatelolco to the Ban Treaty / Cesar Jaramillo

Engaging the nuclear-armed states in the TPNW disarmament process / Thomas E. Shea

Don't mention the ban : Australia's evasion of the TPNW / Gem Romuld

Setting new priorities : the EU shifts from civil peace and development projects to military policies / Herbert Wulf

Advancing the TPNW / Tilman Ruff

Will nuclear states accept post-use responsibility? : If not, why not? / George Perkovich

Mobilising the world behind the nuclear weapons Ban Treaty / Ramesh Thakur

Verifying the elimination of nuclear weapons and providing assurance against breakout / John Carlson

Exploring new approaches to arms control in the 21st century : Lessons from the INF Treaty and Presidential Nuclear Initiatives / Hugh Miall

World order and arms control / David Holloway

The future of nuclear arms control : time for an update / Angela Kane and Noah Mayhew

Arms control and world order / Sverre Lodgaard

Conclusion : the NPT and the Ban Treaty : Nonproliferation, prohibition, disarmament / Ramesh Thakur

Annex: Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 10, 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Nuclear ban treaty

ISBN:

9781003227502

1003227503

9781000516937

1000516938

9781000516920

100051692X

Publisher Number:

40030986204

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