1st Edition
The Politics of Nuclear Disarmament Obstacles to and Opportunities for Eliminating Nuclear Weapons
By Tim Street
Copyright 2021
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book explores what political conditions must be established and what obstacles overcome for the fi ve offi cial Nuclear Weapon States (NWS)— China, France, Russia, the UK and US— to eliminate their nuclear weapons.
The different views and positions of a range of actors concerning nuclear weapons issues— including elite perspectives and public opinion— and the political assumptions... Read more
Introduction
Part One: Understanding nuclear disarmament: theory and practice
Chapter One: Conceptualising nuclear disarmament
Chapter Two: Assessing theories of nuclear possession and disarmament
Part Two: Obstacles to and opportunities for nuclear disarmament in and between the NWS
Chapter Three: United States of America
Chapter Four: Russia
Chapter Five: United Kingdom
Chapter Six: France
Chapter Seven: China
Chapter Eight: Realising NWS nuclear disarmament through institutional democratisation
Conclusion
Biography
Tim Street is a researcher and activist based in Chelmsford and Oxford.
