Overview
- Reconstructs the criticism of nuclear peace
- Analyses the potential impact of the Humanitarian Initiative and 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty
- Explores the practical and institutional prospects of a peace order without nuclear weapons
Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Criticism of Nuclear Deterrence and Proliferation: Old and New
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On the Road to Non-Nuclear Peace: From Ridicule to Stigmatizing via Prohibition
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Sustaining Non-Nuclear Peace: Government or Governance in the Longer Term
Keywords
- non-nuclear peace
- Nuclear Ban Treaty
- NPT
- public intellectuals
- nuclear weapons
- intellectual history
- morality
- stability
- the human condition
- belief systems
- nuclear doctrines
- nuclear deterrence
- arms control
- disarmament
- non-proliferation
- vertical proliferation
- modernization
- international norms
- political legitimacy
- ridicule
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Non-Nuclear Peace
Book Subtitle: Beyond the Nuclear Ban Treaty
Editors: Tom Sauer, Jorg Kustermans, Barbara Segaert
Series Title: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26688-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26687-5Published: 19 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-26690-5Published: 19 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-26688-2Published: 07 November 2019
Series ISSN: 1759-3735
Series E-ISSN: 2752-857X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 194
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Peace Studies, Conflict Studies, International Relations Theory, International Security Studies, Military and Defence Studies, Foreign Policy