The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament: Obstacles to and Opportunities for Eliminating Nuclear Weapons

ISBN-13: 9780367491291 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 232 str.

Tim Street

Opis

This book explores what political conditions must be established and what obstacles overcome for the five official Nuclear Weapon States (NWS): China; France; Russia; the UK; and US to eliminate their nuclear weapons.

Spis treści

Introduction  Part One: Understanding nuclear disarmament: theory and practice  Chapter One: Conceptualising nuclear disarmament  Chapter Two: Assessing theories of nuclear possession and disarmament  Part Two: Obstacles to and opportunities for nuclear disarmament in and between the NWS  Chapter Three: United States of America  Chapter Four: Russia  Chapter Five: United Kingdom  Chapter Six: France  Chapter Seven: China  Chapter Eight: Realising NWS nuclear disarmament through institutional democratisation  Conclusion