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Non-Nuclear Peace

Beyond the Nuclear Ban Treaty

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Editors:
  1. Tom Sauer

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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  2. Jorg Kustermans

    1. Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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  3. Barbara Segaert

    1. University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

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  • Reconstructs the criticism of nuclear peace
  • Analyses the potential impact of the Humanitarian Initiative and 2017 Nuclear Ban Treaty
  • Explores the practical and institutional prospects of a peace order without nuclear weapons

Part of the book series: Rethinking Peace and Conflict Studies (RCS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Tom Sauer, Jorg Kustermans, Barbara Segaert
    Pages 1-8

  3. Criticism of Nuclear Deterrence and Proliferation: Old and New

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9
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    2. Conceptions of the Bomb in the Early Nuclear Age

      • Casper Sylvest
      Pages 11-37

    3. Nuclear Weapons: Peaceful, Dangerous, or Irrelevant?

      • Patricia M. Lewis
      Pages 39-57

    4. Vertical Proliferation in Light of the Disarmament Commitment

      • Katarzyna Kubiak
      Pages 59-84

  4. On the Road to Non-Nuclear Peace: From Ridicule to Stigmatizing via Prohibition

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      Pages 85-85
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    2. Stigmatization by Ridicule: From Dr. Strangelove to Donald Trump

      • Rodger A. Payne
      Pages 87-113

    3. The Humanitarian Initiative: A Critical Appreciation

      • Nina Tannenwald
      Pages 115-129

    4. Nuclear Ban Treaty: Sand or Grease for the NPT?

      • Michal Onderco
      Pages 131-148

  5. Sustaining Non-Nuclear Peace: Government or Governance in the Longer Term

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 149-149
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    2. What Are the Institutional Preconditions for a Stable Non-Nuclear Peace?

      • Harald Müller
      Pages 151-166

    3. Can the Danger of Nuclear War Be Eliminated by Disarmament?

      • Campbell Craig
      Pages 167-180

    4. Conclusion: Towards Non-Nuclear Peace

      • Tom Sauer, Jorg Kustermans, Barbara Segaert
      Pages 181-190

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 191-194
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About this book

This volume examines the possibility of a world without nuclear weapons. It starts from the observation that, although nuclear deterrence has long been dominant in debates about war and peace, recent events show that ridicule and stigmatization of nuclear weapons and their possessors is on the rise. The idea of non-nuclear peace has been around since the beginning of the nuclear revolution, but it may be staging a return. The first part reconstructs the criticism of nuclear peace, both past and present, with a particular emphasis on technology. The second part focuses on the most revolutionary change since the beginning of the nuclear revolution, namely the Humanitarian Initiative and the resulting Nuclear Ban Treaty (2017), which allows imagining non-nuclear peace anew. The third and last part explores the practical and institutional prospects of a peace order without nuclear weapons. If non-nuclear peace advocates want to convince skeptics, they have to come up with practical solutions in the realm of global governance or world government.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Tom Sauer, Jorg Kustermans

  • University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium

    Barbara Segaert

About the editors

Tom Sauer is Associate Professor in International Politics at the Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium. He is co-editor of Nuclear Terrorism: Countering the Threat and author of Eliminating Nuclear Weapons: The Role of Missile Defense, Nuclear Inertia: US Nuclear Weapons Policy after the Cold War, and Nuclear Arms Control.


Jorg Kustermans teaches international politics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Antwerp, Belgium. His scholarship is situated at the intersection of international theory and social theory (state personhood, republican security, the nature of social practices). He is co-editor of Pacifism’s Appeal: Ethos, History, Politics (with Sauer T., Lootens D. & Segaert B.)


Barbara Segaert is Scientific Coordinator at the University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp, Belgium (since 2002), where she develops academic programmes onvarious topics of contemporary relevance to society. She has previously studied Oriental Studies, Islamic Studies and Arab Philology at KU Leuven, Belgium, and Social Sciences at the Open University, UK. 


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