1st Edition
Sanctions for Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation Moving Forward
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Promise of Sanctions for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation
Peter Wallensteen and Armend Bekaj
Part I: General Observations on International Sanctions
Chapter 2: Incentivizing Non-proliferation: Theory, Policy, and Experience
David Cortright and Thomas Biersteker
Chapter 3: Sanctions as Tools to Achieve Nuclear Reduction Policy: Is there a Better Way Forward?
George A. Lopez
Chapter 4: The EU’s Use of Sanctions in Nuclear Non-proliferation and Arms Control
Clara Portela and Mathilde Jeantil
Chapter 5: Latin America and the Caribbean: a Tradition of Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation
Gilberto M. A. Rodrigues
Part II: The Use of Sanctions for Nuclear Arms Control and Non-proliferation
Chapter 6: Constrain, Coerce and Deter: Non-proliferation Sanctions against India and China
Rishika Chauhan
Chapter 7: Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons and Sanctions
Armend Bekaj and Rishika Chauhan
Chapter 8: The Utility of Sanctions on Non-proliferation: Iran’s Nuclear Programme
Trita Parsi
Chapter 9: Liberation Movements, Sanctions, and Nuclear Disarmament: the African National Congress and Apartheid South Africa
Jo-Ansie van Wyk
Chapter 10: The Federal Republic of Germany and the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Did Sanctions Have an Effect?
Doğukan Cansın Karakuş
Conclusion
Chapter 11: Sanctions and Non-Proliferation: Where We Are and Where We Should Go
Peter Wallensteen and Armend Bekaj
Biography
Armend Bekaj is a researcher at Working Group 2 on International Measures for Compliance to Nuclear Disarmament Regimes at Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament (AMC), Department of Peace and Conflict Research (DPCR), Uppsala University, Sweden. He combines academic and policy experience on peace and conflict and democracy and autocracy, with a focus on sanctions and nuclear disarmament/non-proliferation.
Peter Wallensteen is Dag Hammarskjöld Professor Emeritus of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University, Sweden, and Richard G. Starmann Sr. Research Professor Emeritus at Kroc Institute, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA. He served as the first Head of the Uppsala Department of Peace and Conflict Research and now leads AMC’s Working Group on International Measures for Compliance to Nuclear Disarmament Regimes.
'With multiple proliferation threats looming, nonproliferation policy will remain a critical issue for years to come. This book is an indispensable contribution to rethinking how sanctions are applied and framed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.'
Kelsey Davenport, Arms Control Today, April 2025
