Non-Nuclear Peace

Beyond the Nuclear Ban Treaty

Tom Sauer, Jorg Kustermans, Barbara Segaert (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

IX, 194 Seiten

2020 | 1st ed. 2020
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-26690-5 (ISBN)

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This volume examines the possibility of a world without nuclear weapons. It starts from the observation that, although nuclear deterrence has long been dominant in debates about war and peace, recent events show that ridicule and stigmatization of nuclear weapons and their possessors is on the rise. The idea of non-nuclear peace has been around since the beginning of the nuclear revolution, but it may be staging a return. The first part reconstructs the criticism of nuclear peace, both past and present, with a particular emphasis on technology. The second part focuses on the most revolutionary change since the beginning of the nuclear revolution, namely the Humanitarian Initiative and the resulting Nuclear Ban Treaty (2017), which allows imagining non-nuclear peace anew. The third and last part explores the practical and institutional prospects of a peace order without nuclear weapons. If non-nuclear peace advocates want to convince skeptics, they have to come up with practical solutions in the realm of global governance or world government.

Tom Sauer is Associate Professor in International Politics at the Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. He is co-editor of Nuclear Terrorism: Countering the Threat and author of Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: The Role of Missile Defense, Nuclear Inertia: US Nuclear Weapons Policy after the Cold War, and Nuclear Arms Control.
Jorg Kustermans teaches international politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His scholarship is situated at the intersection of international theory and social theory (state personhood, republican security, the nature of social practices). He is co-editor of Pacifism's Appeal: Ethos, History, Politics (with Sauer T., Lootens D. & Segaert B.)
Barbara Segaert is Scientific Coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Belgium (since 2002), where she develops academic programmes on various topics of contemporary relevance to society. She has previously studied Oriental Studies, Islamic Studies and Arab Philology at KU Leuven, Belgium, and Social Sciences at the Open University, UK.

Chapter 1: Introduction - Tom Sauer, Jorg Kustermans and Barbara Segaert.- Chapter 2: Conceptions of the Bomb in the Early Nuclear Age - Casper Sylvest.- Chapter 3: Nuclear Weapons: Peaceful, Dangerous, or Irrelevant? - Patricia M. Lewis.- Chapter 4: Vertical Proliferation in Light of the Disarmament Commitment - Katarzyna Kubiak.- Chapter 5: Stigmatization by Ridicule: From Dr. Strangelove to Donald Trump - Rodger A. Payne.- Chapter 6: The Humanitarian Initiative: A Critical Appreciation - Nina Tannenwald.- Chapter 7: Nuclear Ban Treaty: Sand or Grease for the NPT? - Michal Onderco.- Chapter 8: What Are the Institutional Preconditions for a Stable Non-Nuclear Peace? - Harald Müller.- Chapter 9: Can the Danger of Nuclear War Be Eliminated by Disarmament? - Campbell Craig.- Chapter 10: Conclusion: Towards Non-Nuclear Peace - Tom Sauer, Jorg Kustermans and Barbara Segaert.

Erscheinungsdatum	20.11.2020
Reihe/Serie	Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
Zusatzinfo	IX, 194 p. 3 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	277 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	arms control • belief systems • Disarmament • Intellectual history • International norms • Modernization • Morality • non-nuclear peace • Non-Proliferation • npt • Nuclear Ban Treaty • Nuclear Deterrence • nuclear doctrines • nuclear weapons • Political legitimacy • Public Intellectuals • ridicule • stability • the human condition • vertical proliferation
ISBN-10	3-030-26690-7 / 3030266907
ISBN-13	978-3-030-26690-5 / 9783030266905
Zustand	Neuware