The moral implications of the subversion of the Nonproliferation Treaty regime

Doyle, Thomas E.

doi:10.3402/egp.v2i2.1916

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“…At which point do non-NWS conclude that defection from the NPT regime is not just likely to be politically effective as a circuit breaker in the existing impasse but is also the morally permissible and ethically responsible course of action? (Doyle 2009) The NWPT represents one last effort on the part of the non-NWS to try and reach the long-held goal of nuclear disarmament through stigmatization and prohibition (Thakur, forthcoming). The Preamble acknowledges "the ethical imperatives for nuclear disarmament and the urgency of achieving and maintaining a nuclear-weapon-free world" which is described as "a global public good of the highest order, serving both national and collective security interests."…”

Section: The Nuclear Taboomentioning

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Japan and the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty: The Wrong Side of History, Geography, Legality, Morality, and Humanity

Thakur

2017

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

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By refusing to sign the new UN Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty, Japan has put itself on the wrong side of history, geography, legality, morality, and humanity. The treaty is part of the broad historically progressive trend since 1945 to limit and abolish nuclear weapons and their use. The normative architecture includes the Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Nuclear Suppliers Group, regional nuclear weapon-free zones, the Proliferation Security Initiative, and the International Atomic Energy Agency. Geographically, global nuclear risks and threats exist in especially acute form in the Asia-Pacific and most states of the region voted solidly for the ban treaty. The NPT's legal obligation to eliminate nuclear weapons was strengthened by the World Court's Advisory Opinion in 1996. Most countries and peoples of the world overwhelmingly abhor the bomb as deeply immoral. The ban treaty expresses their collective moral revulsion and is rooted in humanitarian principles.

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Section: The Nuclear Taboomentioning

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Japan and the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty: The Wrong Side of History, Geography, Legality, Morality, and Humanity

Thakur

2017

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

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“…Because a bad accident in one country can have horrific effects in neighbouring countries, they have the moral right to have their voices heard in the decision to build and operate nuclear plants to global safety standards: no incineration without representation. At which point do non‐nuclear weapon states conclude that defection from the NPT regime is likely to be politically effective, is morally permissible and may well be the ethically responsible course of action (Doyle )—precisely the dilemma with which the AU is grappling vis‐à‐vis the ICC?…”

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Ethics, International Affairs and Western Double Standards

Thakur

2016

Asia & Pacific Policy Stud

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The stability of the global order is a function of the reconciliation between universal ethical principles and power asymmetries. Both principles and power are embedded in international institutions. As relative power shifts away from the West, the ability of the latter to exempt themselves from the reach of global norms-on human rights, international criminal justice, the rule of law, the use of force, the possession of nuclear weapons-will lessen. They will have to accommodate to the new normal either by bringing their conduct within the operation of international normative instruments, or else risk mass defections from global regimes. The relative loss of power means they have a material interest in strengthening, not weakening, a rules-based global order.

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“…57 This change of approach amounted to a unilateral and de facto revision of the NPT nuclear order without the rightful consent of the other state parties, 58 which would suggest a subversion of the NPT regime as a whole. 59 Second, Bush assumed that the necessary level of verification for nuclear arms agreements was impossible to achieve. During the Cold War, the United States and former Soviet Union had adopted verification procedures that helped support the common interests of arms control.…”

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“…He is correct to suggest that the NPT had been subverted or at least seriously compromised. 72 By their actions, the U.S. and the other NWS sacrificed the international legal disarmament requirements and the general respect for the rule of international law on the altar of national security. However, he is mistaken that the NWS no longer owed an objective, formal duty to their Article VI commitments.…”

Section: Liberal Democracy and Nuclear Despotismmentioning

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Liberal Democracy and Nuclear Despotism: Two Ethical Foreign Policy Dilemmas

Doyle

2015

SSRN Journal

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The moral implications of the subversion of the Nonproliferation Treaty regime

Cited by 11 publications

References 14 publications

Japan and the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty: The Wrong Side of History, Geography, Legality, Morality, and Humanity

Japan and the Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty: The Wrong Side of History, Geography, Legality, Morality, and Humanity

Ethics, International Affairs and Western Double Standards

Liberal Democracy and Nuclear Despotism: Two Ethical Foreign Policy Dilemmas

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