| Title: | HOW SERIOUS IS THE CRISIS OF THE INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION REGIME? |
| DOI No: | 10.1142/9789812709233_0019 |
| Source: | INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR ON NUCLEAR WAR AND PLANETARY EMERGENCIES 36TH SESSION (pp 120-126)
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| Author(s): | JOACHIM KRAUSE
Institute for Social Sciences, University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany
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| Abstract: | The nuclear non-proliferation regime is in a crisis, but it is definitely not as severely damaged as proponents of the liberal arms control school are suggesting. Their main argument is that contractual breaches (first and foremost) by the nuclear weapons states as well as by non-nuclear weapons states (Iran, North-Korea; Iraq and Libya in the past) and the ongoing abstentions of India, Israel and Pakistan from the regime are the main causes for the pending collapse. It is argued here that the main factor in preserving the nuclear nonproliferation regime has been the relative success of the rule of non-use of force in interstate relations. It is more important to see to that this rule will be maintained—for which the role of the U.S. as a steward of international peace is crucial—than in making assumptions whether there was a basic deal between nuclear weapons states and non-nuclear weapons states and about who was responsible for the alleged unraveling of that deal |
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