The 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty: A New Path to Nuclear Disarmament

by JosephCamilleri (Editor), Fumihiko Yoshida (Editor), Michael Hamel - Green (Editor)

• New

  Hardcover
  2019

  $140.08

  Rising concern over the increasing threat of nuclear war impelled the 2017 UN negotiations and adoption by 122 UN member states of a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. The Treaty seeks to ban nuclear weapons globally in the same way that chemical and biological weapons have already been prohibited. This book provides the first in-depth comprehensive analysis of the implications and possibilities of the new treaty, drawing on the insights of international relations, international law, and disarmament experts and specialists from Europe, America, the Asia-Pacific, and the UN. In a context where existing nuclear weapon states have so far declined to be party to the new treaty, the book examines not only its emergence and significance but also the prospects and possibilities for its implementation; the challenges associated with verifying the new agreement; the role of both civil society and governments; and the treaty's wider implications in addressing regional and global nuclear threats. This book was originally published as a special issue of Global Change, Peace and Security but additionally includes the special section articles on the treaty in the Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament.