Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law - Volume V : Legal Challenges for Nuclear Security and Deterrence / edited by Jonathan L. Black-Branch, Dieter Fleck.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Black-Branch, Jonathan L., Editor.

Fleck, Dieter, Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental law, International.

Law of the sea.

International law.

Aeronautics--Law and legislation.

Aeronautics.

Human rights.

International Environmental Law.

Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space.

Human Rights.

Local Subjects:

International Environmental Law.

Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space.

Human Rights.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 394 pages)

Edition:

1st ed. 2020.

Place of Publication:

The Hague : T.M.C. Asser Press : Imprint: T.M.C. Asser Press, 2020.

Summary:

This fifth volume in the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on various legal aspects regarding nuclear security and nuclear deterrence. The series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law provides scholarly research articles with critical commentaries on relevant treaty law, best practice and legal developments, thus offering an academic analysis and information on practical legal and diplomatic developments both globally and regionally. It sets a basis for further constructive discourse at both national and international levels. Jonathan L. Black-Branch is Dean of Law and Professor of International and Comparative Law at the University of Manitoba in Canada; a Bencher of the Law Society of Manitoba; JP and Barrister (England & Wales); Barrister & Solicitor (Manitoba); and Chair of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation & Contemporary International Law. Dieter Fleck is Former Director International Agreements & Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany; Member of the Advisory Board of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL); and Rapporteur of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation & Contemporary International Law.

Contents:

Chaper 1. Legal Challenges for Nuclear Security and Deterrence

Part I. Global Issues and Concerns

Chapter 2. Questioning International Nuclear Weapons Law as a Field of Resistance

Chapter 3. The NPT-CTBT Connection

Chapter 4. Planning for Disaster – Lessons from the 2011 Tohoku Disaster

Chapter 5. The Legal Regime of the Use of Nuclear Power Sources in Space Missions

Chapter 6. The 2016 ILC Draft Articles on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters and their Relevance for Victims of Nuclear Accidents and Use of Nuclear Weapons

Chapter 7. Sanctions in Nuclear Non-Proliferation Law

Part II. Regional Matters

Chapter 8. The Unclassical Match Between Brazil and Argentina: Past and Present of the Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone in Latin America and the Caribbean

Chapter 9. Lessons from South Africa’s Voluntary Denuclearisation Process and the African Continent’s Position on Nuclear Weapons

Chapter 10. Foreign Assistance in Establishing and Operating Nuclear PowerPlants: The South African Experience

Chapter 11. Small Modular Reactors in Canada: Eroding Public Oversight and Canada’s Transition to Sustainable Development

Part III. New Approaches towards Nuclear Disarmament

Chapter 12. Understanding Nuclear Deterrence within the International Constitutional Architecture

Chapter 13. Running Out of (Legal) Excuses: Extended Nuclear Deterrence in the Era of the Prohibition Treaty

Chapter 14. The Link between Nuclear Disarmament and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals

Chapter 15. Possible Means to Overcome Tendencies of the Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty to Erode the NPT

Chapter 16. Precarious Peace: Nuclear Deterrence and Defence Doctrines of Nuclear-Weapon States in the Post-Cold War Era

Chapter 17. Legal Aspects of Nuclear Weapons Doctrines

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

94-6265-347-X