Full Description
This book examines the interplay between sanctions and nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
The volume aims to tackle three separate but closely intertwined issues:
It aims to revisit the debate on, and deconstruct the concept of, sanctions; to provide a working theoretical framework; to differentiate between positive sanctions (or incentives or carrots) and negative sanctions; to identify the actors who may initiate sanctions (i.e. states, regional, and/or international organizations); to ascertain the legality and legitimacy of such sanctions taking place; to problematize and discuss the utility of sanctions; and so on.
It aims to disentangle the concepts of nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, particularly in light of the most recent geopolitical global shifts on nuclear powers-interplay taking place in the background of the war in Ukraine and rising tensions in Southeast Asia, and so on.
Finally, it aims to conjoin the cause-and-effect cases between the application of sanctions, on the one hand, and the decision by states to pursue nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation, on the other. By doing so, the volume helps to update and stimulate the academic and policy debate on the inter-relation between sanctions and nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation.
This book will be of much interest to students of nuclear non-proliferation, economic sanctions, security studies, and International Relations.
Contents
Introduction. 1.The Promise of Sanctions for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation. Part I: General Observations on International Sanctions. 2.Incentivizing Non-proliferation: Theory, Policy, and Experience. 3.Sanctions as Tools to Achieve Nuclear Reduction Policy: Is there a Better Way Forward? 4.The EU's Use of Sanctions in Nuclear Non-proliferation and Arms Control. 5.Latin America and the Caribbean: a Tradition of Nuclear Disarmament and Non-proliferation. Part II: The Use of Sanctions for Nuclear Arms Control and Non-proliferation. 6.Constrain, Coerce and Deter: Non-proliferation Sanctions against India and China. 7.Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Pakistan's Nuclear Weapons and Sanctions. 8.The Utility of Sanctions on Non-proliferation: Iran's Nuclear Programme. 9.Liberation Movements, Sanctions, and Nuclear Disarmament: the African National Congress and apartheid South Africa. 10.The Federal Republic of Germany and the Non-Proliferation Treaty: Did Sanctions Have an Effect? Conclusion. 11.Sanctions and Non-Proliferation: Where We Are and Where We Should Go.
