Overview
- Conducts a discourse analysis of the UK’s nuclear weapons policy between 1980 and 2010
- Historicizes and deconstructs the moving parts of the UK’s nuclear common sense
- Provides the theoretical groundwork for future critical investigations into the discursive maintenance of nuclear weapons elsewhere
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in International Relations (PSIR)
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Reviews
-- Srdjan Vucetic, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa
Paul Beaumont offers a bold rethinking of how states manage to maintain nuclear weapons. By conducting a discourse analysis of the United Kingdom’s nuclear weapons policy from 1980 to 2010, Beaumont interrogates and critically assess the conventional narratives surrounding the pacifying effects of nuclear weapons, and how states avoid ethical responsibility for their proliferation. The book convincingly demonstrates how much discursive labor has been required to maintain the idea that Britain's nuclear weapons serve a security and status function. Ultimately, the book is a theoretically innovative and empiricallyrich work that provides a novel approach to problematizing nuclear weapons policies.-- Pål Røren, Postdoctoral Fellow, International Politics at the Center for War Studies and Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Paul Beaumont is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations/International Environmental Studies and Development from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. He has published peer-reviewed articles in Third World Quarterly, Global Affairs, and New Perspectives, policy-orientated research on behalf of the International Law and Policy Institute, and several op-eds in Klassekampen and Aftenposten.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Performing Nuclear Weapons
Book Subtitle: How Britain Made Trident Make Sense
Authors: Paul Beaumont
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in International Relations
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67576-9
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 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67575-2Published: 24 July 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-67578-3Published: 25 July 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-67576-9Published: 23 July 2021
Series ISSN: 2946-2673
Series E-ISSN: 2946-2681
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 242
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Relations Theory, Military and Defence Studies, International Security Studies