1st Edition

Building a Road to Nuclear Disarmament Bridging the Gap Between Competing Approaches

By Rizwana Abbasi Copyright 2022
156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

156 Pages
by Routledge

This book while comprehending the contemporary global security environment, offers a new roadmap for nuclear disarmament by creating a balance between deterrence supporters and disarmament advocators. The author identifies the divide between competing approaches such as traditional security-centric aspects and humanity-centered disarmament perspectives, tackling the complex question of how... Read more

Introduction

1. Nuclear Disarmament: Tracing Lessons from History

2. Competing Approaches: Identifying the Gaps

3. Contemporary Security Environment: New Technologies and Nuclear Disarmament

4. Bridging the Gap: Creating a New Security Environment for Nuclear Disarmament

Conclusion

Biography

Rizwana Abbasi is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies at the National University of Modern Languages in Islamabad, Pakistan. She has taught at many universities in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. She received her PhD from the University of Leicester, UK, specializing in International Security and Nuclear Non-proliferation. Previous publications include Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia: New Technologies and Challenges to Sustainable Peace (with Zafar Khan, 2019) and Pakistan and the New Nuclear Taboo: Regional Deterrence and the International Arms Control Regime (2012).