The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty: A New Path to Nuclear Disarmament

ISBN-13: 9781138393547 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 284 str.

Joseph Camilleri; Michael Hamel-Green; Fumihiko Yoshida

Opis

This book analyses the implications of the new UN Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty. Most of the chapters were originally published in a special issue of Global Change, Peace and Security, but the book also includes the special section articles on the treaty in the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament, and a new introduction and conclusion.

Spis treści

Introduction Rethinking the path to nuclear disarmament  Part 1: Nuclear Ban Treaty: Rationale and Significance  1. Obstacles to understanding the emergence and significance of the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons  2. A ‘light for all humanity’: the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons and the progress of humanitarian disarmament  3. The diplomacy of resistance: power, hegemony and nuclear disarmament  4. Stigmatizing and Delegitimizing Nuclear Weapons  5. A Strategic Plan for Nuclear Disarmament: Engineering a Perfect Political Storm  Part 2: The Role of Civil Society  6. Negotiating the UN treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons and the role of ICAN  7. The ICRC and the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement: Working Towards a Nuclear-Free World since 1945  8. Why youth and feminist activism matters: insights from anti-nuclear campaigns in practice  9. Impacts of the nuclear ban: how outlawing nuclear weapons is changing the world  Part 3: Verification  10. Verification and security of transformation to a nuclear-weapon-free world: the framework of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons  11. An international monitoring system for verification to support both the treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons and the nonproliferation treaty  Part 4: National and Regional Perspectives  12. Japan and the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty: The Wrong Side of History, Geography, Legality, Morality, and Humanity  13. Ban Treaty: will it abolish nuclear weapons? A Japanese perspective  14. Nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament at the crossroads – a Mongolian perspective  15. The implications of the 2017 UN Nuclear Prohibition Treaty for existing and proposed nuclear-weapon-free zones  Concluding Analysis Nuclear Prohibition: The Long Journey Ahead