On Nuclear Weapons: Denuclearization, Demilitarization and Disarmament (eBook, PDF)

Selected Writings of Richard Falk
Redaktion: Andersson, Stefan

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Highlights the threats posed by nuclear weapons and shows a way to denuclearization through the application of international law.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108579575
• Artikelnr.: 70912377

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. International Law and World Order: 1. The Shimoda case: a legal
appraisal of the atomic attacks upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki; 2. Nuclear
policy and world order: why denuclearization; 3. Toward a legal regime for
nuclear weapons; 4. Nuclear weapons, international law and the world court:
a historic encounter; 5. The nuclear weapons advisory opinion and the new
jurisprudence of global civil society; 6. Inhibiting reliance on biological
weaponry: the role and relevance of international law; Part II. Impacts of
Democracy, Neutrality and National Interest: 7. Nuclear weapons and the end
of democracy; 8. Nuclear weapons and the renewal of democracy; 9.
Neutrality, international law and the nuclear arms race; 10. Nuclearism and
national interest - the situation of a non-nuclear ally; 11. A radical
world order challenge: addressing global climate change and the threat of
nuclear weapons; Part III. Nuclear Policy Initiatives: 12. Arms control,
foreign policy, and global reform; 13. The illegitimacy of the
non-proliferation regime; 14. No first use of nuclear weapons: pros and
cons; 15. Environmental warfare and ecocide facts, appraisal, and
proposals; Part IV. Remembering the Past, Encountering the Future: 16. The
paucity of the millennial moment: the case of nuclearism; 17. The nuclear
challenge after seventy years; 18. The spirit of Thoreau in the age of
Trident.