Challenging Nuclearism

A Humanitarian Approach to Reshape the Global Nuclear Order

Marianne Hanson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2022
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-6509-1 (ISBN)

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An analysis of how nuclear weapons states have been able to 'normalise' nuclear weapons by practising elements of ‘nuclearism’. These practices have all been affected by the creation of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which represents a major challenge to these states and their domination of the global nuclear order. -- .

Challenging nuclearism explores how a deliberate ‘normalisation’ of nuclear weapons has been constructed, why it has prevailed in international politics for over seventy years and why it is only now being questioned seriously. The book identifies how certain practices have enabled a small group of states to hold vast arsenals of these weapons of mass destruction and how the close control over nuclear decisions by a select group has meant that the humanitarian consequences of nuclear weapons have been disregarded for decades.

The recent UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will not bring about quick disarmament. It has been decried by the nuclear weapon states. But by rejecting nuclearism and providing a clear denunciation of nuclear weapons, it will challenge nuclear states in a way that has until now not been possible. Challenging nuclearism analyses the origins and repercussions of this pivotal moment in nuclear politics. -- .

Marianne Hanson is Associate Professor of International Relations at the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland -- .

Introduction

Part I: The dominance of nuclearism
1 Identifying the elements of nuclearism: Traditional framings normalize nuclear weapons
2 Nuclearism today: Modernization, the persistence of deterrence, and the rise of new dangers
3 Pushing for disarmament: A fruitless exercise

Part II: The transition – from the humanitarian initiative to the prohibition treaty
4 The recent humanitarian context: limiting the ‘calamities of war’
5 Creating the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Part III: Rejecting nuclearism
6 Rejecting Nuclearism I: a new discourse; bringing humanitarianism back; new voices and actors; challenging material spending
7 Rejecting Nuclearism II: disrupting the nuclear order

Part IV: Ending nuclearism?
8 Challenges to and likely impacts of the treaty

Conclusion

References -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2021
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	576 g
Themenwelt	Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Militärfahrzeuge / -flugzeuge / -schiffe
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Völkerrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
ISBN-10	1-5261-6509-0 / 1526165090
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-6509-1 / 9781526165091
Zustand	Neuware