Harald Müller, Director, Peace Research Institute Frankfurt; Nonproliferation Review editorial board member

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The strategic elimination of nuclear weapons: an alternative global agenda for nuclear disarmament

Acknowledgments

This work has been supported by Charles University Research Centre program UNCE/HUM/028 (Peace Research Center Prague / Faculty of Social Sciences.)

Notes

1 For example, “North Atlantic Council Statement on the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons,” press release, NATO, September 20, 2017, <www.nato.int/cps/ua/natohq/news_146954.htm>.

2 On the dynamics of a four-NWS competition, see Charles D. Ferguson and Bruce W. MacDonald, “Nuclear Dynamics in a Multipolar Strategic Ballistic Defense World,” Federation of American Scientists, July 2017, <https://fas.org/wp-content/uploads/media/Nuclear-Dynamics-In-A-Multipolar-Strategic-Ballistic-Missile-Defense-World.pdf>.

3 William C. Potter and Gaukhar Mukhatzhanova, Nuclear Politics and the Non-Aligned Movement: Principles vs. Pragmatism (London: Routledge, 2012).

4 Harald Müller, “The Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty in Jeopardy? Internal Divisions and the Impact of World Politics,” International Spectator, Vol. 52, No. 1 (2017), pp. 1–16.

5 Alexander Kmentt, “The Development of the International Initiative on the Humanitarian Impact of Nuclear Weapons and Its Effect on the Nuclear Weapons Debate,” International Review of the Red Cross, No. 899 (2016), <www.icrc.org/en/international-review/article/development-international-initiative-humanitarian-impact-nuclear>.

6 Una Becker-Jakob, Harald Müller, and Tabea Seidler-Diekmann, “Regime Conflicts and Norm Dynamics: Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Weapons,” in Harald Müller and Carmen Wunderlich, eds., Norm Dynamics in Multilateral Arms Control: Interests, Conflicts, and Justice (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2017), pp. 51–81.

7 Roland Bleiker and Emma Hutchison, eds., “Emotions in World Politics,” International Theory, Vol. 6, No. 3 (2014).

8 For a primer, see Sukeyuki Ichimasa, “The Concept of Virtual Nuclear Arsenals and ‘a World without Nuclear Weapons’,” NIDS Journal of Defense and Security, December 13, 2012, <www.nids.mod.go.jp/english/publication/kiyo/pdf/2012/bulletin_e2012_3.pdf>.

9 See Harald Müller, “Icons off the Mark? Waltz and Schelling on a Perpetual Brave Nuclear World,” Nonproliferation Review, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2013), pp. 545–65.

10 Thomas C. Schelling, “A World without Nuclear Weapons?” Daedalus, Vol. 138, No. 4 (2009), pp. 124–29.

11 21st Century Concert Study Group, A Twenty-First Century Concert of Powers – Promoting Great Power Multilateralism for the Post-Transatlantic Era (Frankfurt: Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, 2014).

12 “Founding Act on Mutual Relations, Cooperation and Security between NATO and the Russian Federation signed in Paris, France,” May 27, 1997, <www.nato.int/cps/su/natohq/official_texts_25468.htm>.

13 UN Security Council Resolution 2231, S/RES/2231, July 20, 2015, p. 24, paras. 24–26; p. 34, para. 82.

14 NPT, July 7, 2017, <https://treaties.un.org/doc/Treaties/2017/07/20170707%2003-42%20PM/Ch_XXVI_9.pdf>.