Full Description
This sixth volume of the book series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law focuses on current legal challenges regarding nuclear disarmament and security. The Series on Nuclear Non-Proliferation in International Law provides scholarly research articles with critical commentaries on relevant treaty law, best practice and legal developments, thus offering an academic analysis and information on practical legal and diplomatic developments both globally and regionally. It sets a basis for further constructive discourse at both national and international levels. Jonathan L. Black-Branch is Chair of the ILA Committee on Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation and Contemporary International Law and President and CEO of ISLAND - The Foundation for International Society of Law and Nuclear Disarmament. Dieter Fleck is Former Director International Agreements & Policy, Federal Ministry of Defence, Germany; Memberof the Advisory Board of the Amsterdam Center for International Law (ACIL); Rapporteur of the International Law Association (ILA) Committee on Nuclear Weapons, Non-Proliferation & Contemporary International Law.
Contents
Chapter 1. Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Disarmament and Security: prevailing.- Part I. Global and Regional Challenges.- Chapter 2. International Law and the Problem of Change: The Challenge of Nuclear Disarmament.- Chapter 3. The 2020 NPT Review Conference: Nuclear Non-Proliferation Objectives of Permanence with Accountability at Stake.- Chapter 4. The Conference on the Middle East Zone Free of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Too Little, Too Late?- Chapter 5. Inquiring into the Global Anti-Proliferation Financing Strategy.- Part II. Indigenous and Environmental Concerns.- Chapter 6. Indigenous Peoples' Human Right to Water in the Nuclear Age: An Assessment of the Protection Under International Law.- Chapter 7. The Global Impact of Nuclear Activity on Indigenous Peoples and How International Law Falls Short in Protecting Them.- Chapter 8. South Africa's Approach to Nuclear Waste Management: Seeking Long-term Solutions to the Nuclear Waste Conundrum.- Chapter 9. The Evolution of Decommissioning Planning: Tracing the Requirements to Consider Radioactive and Non-fuel Wastes and Social Risk.- Part III. Social, Logistical and Technological Tasks.- Chapter 10. China's Nuclear Prowess: A Formidable Nuclear Military Power and a Nuclear Energy Power House.- Chapter 11. Backchannel Non-Proliferation: Non-Aligned States and Nuclear Diplomacy.- Chapter 12. The Potential Use of Artificial Intelligence in Nuclear Weapons and the Need to Advance a New Set of Norms.- Chapter 13. Ethics-based Decision Making for Nuclear Power: Suggestions for Energy Policy and Technology.- Part IV. Emerging Norms and Future Development.- Chapter 14. The Security Impact of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW).- Chapter 15. The Impact of the TPNW on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime.- Chapter 16. Altering the Focus from the Ostensible Object and Purpose of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons to Collateral Treaty Effects of Strategic Nature.- Chapter 17. Stigmatisation as aRoad to Denuclearisation. The Stigmatising Effect of the TPNW.- Chapter 18. Enforcing Sanctions on Iran at Sea: Tensions over the Interpretation of the Law of the Sea.- Chapter 19. General Principles and Shared Interests as Elements of Nuclear Non-Proliferation
