
Non-Nuclear Peace
Beyond the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Palgrave Macmillan (Publisher)
Published on 19. November 2019
Book
Hardback
IX, 194 pages
978-3-030-26687-5 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Non-Nuclear Peace is a valuable contribution to the field of nuclear peacekeeping. It brings together diverse and compelling arguments that challenge current deterrence thinking, introduce innovative tools for normative change, and propose institutional pathways toward a nuclear-free world, though mostly theoretical in nature. Anyone - student or expert - interested in the future of global security and nuclear disarmament will find this a thought-provoking read." (Jason Adolph, Intergenerational Justice Review, Vol. 11 (2), 2025)
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Series
Edition
2020 ed.
Language
English
Place of publication
Cham
Switzerland
Publishing group
Springer International Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
3 s/w Abbildungen
IX, 194 p. 3 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
383 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-030-26687-5 (9783030266875)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-26688-2
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Persons
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 onvarious 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.
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 onvarious 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.
Content
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.