1st Edition
Getting to Nuclear Zero in Northeast Asia The Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone as a Vehicle for Change
Part I: Introduction Chapter 1. An Opening for Regional Denuclearization: Executive Introduction, Michael Hamel-Green Part II: Connecting Past Practice to Current Problems Chapter 2. The US-China Competition Is Going Nuclear: Deadlock on Thin Ice, Gregory Kulacki Chapter 3. A Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone in Northeast Asia: From a Japanese Security Perspective, Michiru Nishida Chapter 4. Changing Security Dynamics in the Korean Peninsula: Rising Strategic Competition, Destabilizing Balance of Terror, Wook-sik Cheong and Yong-ha Hwang Chapter 5. The Mongolian Miracle: From Buffer to Beacon, Jargalsaikhan Enkhsaikhan Part III: The Path to Denuclearization: Risk Reduction through Common Security Chapter 6. Revisiting the Comprehensive Security Roadmap to Reduce the Risk of War on the Korean Peninsula, John Delury, Morton Halperin, Peter Hayes, Chung-In Moon, Tom Pickering and Leon Sigal Chapter 7. Reconsidering Extended Nuclear Deterrence: Inherent Flaws Within, Gregory Kulacki Chapter 8. Rationale for an NWFZ in Northeast Asia Leading to Global Nuclear Disarmament: A Viewpoint from International Law, Kimiaki Kawai Chapter 9: Getting to Zero in Korea: Weathered Carriage on a Viable Path, Wook-sik Cheong and Tatsujiro Suzuki Chapter 10. Civil Society Initiatives for Establishing a Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone: Focusing on Debates in the Japanese Diet, Keiko Nakamura Part IV: Conclusion Chapter 11. Toward a Secure Northeast Asia without Nuclear Weapons: Proposing NWFZ 2.0 and a C3 Security Regime, Jae-Jung Suh
Biography
Gregory Kulacki is the East Asia Project Director for the Union of Concerned Scientists, USA, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition at Nagasaki University, Japan.
Keiko Nakamura is an Associate Professor at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), Japan.
Jae-Jung Suh is Professor of International Relations at International Christian University, Japan and author and editor of several books on security in Northeast Asia and Korea.
Tatsujiro Suzuki is a Visiting Professor at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), Japan. Before joining RECNA, he served as Vice Chairman of Japan Atomic Energy Commission from 2010 to 2014. He is the author of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power (2017).
