The potential stigmatizing effect of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Sauer, Tom; Reveraert, Mathias

doi:10.1080/10736700.2018.1548097

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“…In answering this question, the book seeks to contribute to the momentum behind the new international disarmament agenda (e.g. Egeland, 2018;Ritchie, 2013Ritchie, , 2019Sauer & Reveraert, 2018). Put simply, if the anti-nuclear movement can better understand how states maintain support for their nuclear weapons programmes, they can better understand how to undermine them (Ritchie, 2013).…”

Section: British Nuclear Puzzlesmentioning

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Introduction: Problematising the Maintenance of Nuclear Weapons

Beaumont

2021

Performing Nuclear Weapons

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Atomic weapons are useful because of the stories people tell about them, the fears those stories inspire, and the actions by which people respond to those fears" -John Canaday 1This book investigates how it is possible that a state maintains nuclear weapons. 2 This is unusual. The conventional nuclear research agenda does not consider the maintenance of nuclear weapons much of a puzzle. In short, nuclear weapons are seen as so obviously useful for a state engaged in "self-help", that no right-minded government would ever willingly give them up (Chapter 2). Nuclear weapon possession has thus prompted a great deal of investigation into how best to manage these weapons, but far less on how states maintain them. Indeed, Security Studies, informed by Realism (e.g. Waltz, 1979), was traditionally concerned with 1 Reprinted by permission of the University of Wisconsin Press. © 2000 by the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System. All rights reserved.2 Doty (1993, p. 298) provides in my view the most lucid account of what "howpossible" questions entail: "In posing such a question, I examine how meanings are produced and attached to various social subjects/objects, thus constituting particular interpretive dispositions which create certain possibilities and preclude others. What is explained is not why a particular outcome obtained, but rather how the subjects, objects, and interpretive dispositions were socially constructed such that certain practices were made possible".

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Section: British Nuclear Puzzlesmentioning

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Introduction: Problematising the Maintenance of Nuclear Weapons

Beaumont

2021

Performing Nuclear Weapons

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“…By the formula "first prohibiting, then eliminating," this will finally lead to a nuclear-weapon-free world. 33 However, the ban has changed the world in one important aspect, though not completely. Context is still there.…”

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“…The tools of ICAN, such as blaming the private financing of nuclear weapons work or persuading city governments and parliaments to embrace the TPNW, meet better opportunities in democracies than in nondemocracies (a factor noted by pro-ban analysts, but without regard for the political consequences). 34 The lists of companies and cities concerned betray a yawning lack of Russian and Chinese names. 35 ICAN tools are ineffective in these NWS.…”

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Nuclear Disarmament without the Nuclear-Weapon States: The Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty

Müller¹,

Wunderlich²

2020

Daedalus

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The 2017 Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (tpnw) represents a daring act of self-empowerment: nuclear have-nots produced an international disarmament treaty without the involvement of the nuclear-weapon states or their allies. In this essay, we assess how the new treaty relates to the existing nuclear order and its four central norms: constraints on use, political restraint, non-proliferation, and disarmament. We discuss the tpnw's origin in and impact on this contested order. At the heart of contestation are two security concepts: deterrence versus the immediate ban of nuclear arms, which result in fundamentally different ideas on how to pursue the road to “global zero.” Whether or not the tpnw and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons are compatible depends on how the opponents handle their controversies. The key is to overcome the emotionalized polarization and rediscover a common basis in order to prevent damage to the existing nuclear order and bring forward nuclear disarmament in practice.

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“…According to them, nuclear weapons should not be regarded as powerful instruments anymore, but as illegitimate and illegal. They also hope that this enhanced stigmatization in turn may lead to a renewed societal and political debate inside some of the (democratic) nuclear armed states and their allies, and to policy changes later on (Sauer and Reveraert 2018). Skeptics doubt whether the Ban Treaty will have an effect on the nuclear armed states or their allies (Roberts 2018).…”

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“…The latter, as stated above, may undermine the legitimacy of European defense integration and the European Union project as such. It also remains to be seen if and to what extent the Ban Treaty will be able to resurrect a debate inside the European nuclear weapon states and their NATO allies in the coming years (Sauer and Reveraert 2018).…”

Section: Categorizing the Views About The Europeanization Of The French Nuclear Weaponsmentioning

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Power and Nuclear Weapons: The Case of the European Union

Sauer

2020

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

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For the European Union, nuclear weapons are a taboo. But the more the EU takes steps towards defense integration, the closer the moment comes that the role of the French nuclear weapons has to be discussed. This article hopes to clarify that debate. The first part of this article outlines the debate between those who regard nuclear weapons as powerful and legitimate defense instruments and those who perceive them as too powerful and therefore illegitimate. It is argued that power and deterrence are concepts that are constructed and given meaning by people. The second part applies this debate to the future role of the non-American nuclear weapons in the EU: is there a chance that the French nuclear weapons will be further Europeanized, or will the EU in contrast turn itself into another nuclear weapon free zone (similar to Latin America, the Pacific, and Africa), or will not much change ? It is argued that the outcome of this political debate to a large extent will be determined by the outcome of the aforementioned general debate about power and legitimacy of nuclear weapons.

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The potential stigmatizing effect of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons

Cited by 27 publications

References 4 publications

Introduction: Problematising the Maintenance of Nuclear Weapons

Introduction: Problematising the Maintenance of Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Disarmament without the Nuclear-Weapon States: The Nuclear Weapon Ban Treaty

Power and Nuclear Weapons: The Case of the European Union

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