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Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century: Atomic Zeitenwende? book cover

1st Edition

Germany and Nuclear Weapons in the 21st Century Atomic Zeitenwende?

Edited By Ulrich Kühn Copyright 2024
346 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

346 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book is the first scholarly book to take a comprehensive look at Germany’s nuclear weapons policies in the 21st century. German foreign and security policy is facing a profound reorientation. Great power competition between the United States and both a revanchist Russia and a rising China, the return of war and nuclear threats to Europe, and the emergence of new technologies all force... Read more

Foreword

Catherine Kelleher

Introduction

Ulrich Kühn

Part I: Sources of Change

1. Germany and Four Futures

Robert Legvold

2. The End of Civilian Power: Russia's War Is Changing German Policy

Liana Fix

3. Technological Change, Innovation, and German National Security

Amy J. Nelson

Part II: Deterrence

4. Nuclear Zeitenwende(n): Germany and NATO’s Nuclear Posture

Tobias Bunde

5. German Musings about a Franco-German or German Bomb

Barbara Kunz And Ulrich Kühn

6. German Public Opinion on Nuclear Weapons: Before and after Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

Michal Onderco

Part III: Arms Control and Disarmament

7. German Efforts to Halt the Disintegration of Nuclear and Conventional Arms Control

Wolfgang Richter

8. The Greens and Nuclear Weapons: Torn Between Disarmament Aspirations and Pragmatism

Giorgio Franceschini

9. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: Changing Disarmament Discourses in Germany?

Katja Astner and Moritz Kütt

Part IV: Nonproliferation

10. Germany and the Nonproliferation Treaty

Harald Müller

11. Germany and the Puzzling End of Nuclear Latency

Ulrich Kühn

12. Germany’s Role in the Success and Failure of the Iran Nuclear Deal

Cornelius Adebahr

Of Dependence and Conservatism: Conclusions for German Nuclear Policies in the 21st Century

Ulrich Kühn

Biography

Ulrich Kühn is Director of the Arms Control and Emerging Technologies Program at the Institute for Peace Research and Security Policy at the University of Hamburg, Germany, and a Nonresident Scholar with the Nuclear Policy Program of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Washington, DC.

'Ulrich Kühn’s comprehensive volume covers Germany‘s complicated relationship with Russia, perceptions of U.S. credibility, and the value of being in a nuclear alliance. A must read for NATO policymakers and scholars of nuclear studies.'

Heather Williams, Project on Nuclear Issues, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC, USA

'This timely volume fills a gap in research that existed for too long. How Germany, a vital U.S. ally, deals with the changing nature of nuclear weapons policies is crucial to understanding the challenges of the new nuclear age.'

Tristan Volpe, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, CA, USA

‘This volume, edited by a senior policy expert, assembles leading analysts to debate Germany’s strategic options, with particular attention to the level of leadership its fractious political parties might be willing and able to provide.’

Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2024

'Overall, this is a carefully edited, thoroughly researched and analytically rich assessment of German nuclear policies.'

Hanns W. Maull, Survival, 66:6, December 2024

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