Kjølv Egeland
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1099658 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kjølv Egeland |
| NOMBRES | Kjølv |
| APELLIDO | Egeland |
| FIRMA | EGELAND K |
| AFILIACIONES | Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9818-698X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 64 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Rituals in Nuclear Statecraft
Nuclear statecraft is often seen as a field of policy characterized by hyper-rationality and icy reserve. Yet the practices that make it up are shot through with symbolic imagery and ritualistic behavior. Seeking to advance the nascent literature on ritual in world politics, this article offers an investigation into the origins and functions of central rites in nuclear policy practice. Arguing that rituals can help conjure conformity, cohesion, a…
Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda
Global warming and nuclear war are frequently described as the world's greatest threats. Both challenges could be understood as expressions of modern science and technology, and both present tough collective action problems. They are also mutually entangled. Yet students of security have still to systematically unpack the relationship between climate change and the politics of nuclear weapons. In this article, I critically review the nascent lite…
No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis
Numerous scholars have in recent years concluded that the field of nuclear weapons policy analysis is plagued by widespread self-censorship, conformism, and enduring disconnects between accepted knowledge and available evidence. It has been hypothesized that this tendency is fostered in part by many analysts' reliance on funding from donors with interests in the perpetuation of the existing nuclear order. In this article, we probe this hypothesis…
A subtle call to greatness
In this article, we analyse the implications of the end of the Cold War for US non-proliferation policy and the non-proliferation regime. Contrary to widely held expectations, we show that the end of bipolarity did not undercut the pursuit of non-proliferation but supercharge it. While bipolarity had afforded non-proliferation hold-outs opportunities to evade superpower pressure, the structural condition of unipolarity both incentivised and enabl…
The ‘Cosmic Bluff’ Revisited
What is the point of a nuclear umbrella? Conventional wisdom suggests that explicit nuclear security guarantees provide junior allies with credible security, facilitating regional stability and nuclear non-proliferation. Yet this is not the only possible reason to maintain a nuclear umbrella. Reassessing the history and politics of nuclear alignment through a case study of the US-Norway alliance, I find that nuclear umbrellas have endured, and ca…
Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment
The concepts of trust, confidence, faith, and we-feeling feature prominently in discussions about international cooperation and conflict. In broad strokes, each term is typically used to refer to a notion of risk or dependability, that is, a sense or assessment of the extent to which someone or something can be relied upon. Yet, there is considerable confusion about what the respective concepts describe more specifically. Many analysts have resor…
The false promise of nuclear risk reduction
In a context of intensifying great power competition and deep divergences of view between nuclear and non-nuclear powers on the urgency of nuclear abolition, 'nuclear risk reduction' has gained renewed attention as a pragmatic framework for managing and progressively reducing nuclear dangers. The idea is simple: with more fundamental policy changes either undesirable or out of reach, advocates of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament should f…
Experts, activists, and girl bosses of the nuclear apocalypse
Having long been regarded as irrelevant to the high politics of foreign affairs, feminism and gender equality have in recent years gained increased attention in international security debates, including discussions about nuclear weapons policy. Several governments have adopted official feminist foreign policy postures, international security institutions have launched inquiries into gender equity and representation, and a myriad of security actor…
Able Archer
Able Archer 83, a NATO nuclear exercise conducted in the fall of 1983, has been the subject of considerable debate in recent decades. While some analysts have argued that the superpowers came close to blows due to Soviet fears that the exercise was a ruse meant to disguise a NATO attack, revisionists have maintained that the danger associated with Able Archer 83 has been seriously overstated. In this article, the authors review the scholarship, t…
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons
What do people really think about nuclear weapons? Responding to Dill, Sagan, and Valentino's “Kettles of Hawks” in Security Studies 31, we examine the inconsistency between different surveys of public attitudes toward nuclear weapons use. We maintain that different survey techniques tap into disparate layers of opinion—each of which is “real” in their own way and of analytical value depending on the research question being asked. We conclude by …
Climate security reversed
Policymakers and scholars have in recent years paid increasing attention to the climate–security nexus. However, discussions have been overwhelmingly focused on the security implications of climate change, neglecting the question of the climate implications of alternative approaches to security. On closer inspection, security policies can impact global warming in at least four ways. First, security apparatuses produce direct greenhouse gas emissi…
Sustaining social license
Several observers have in recent years discussed the prospects for advancing arms control and disarmament through determined efforts at delegitimizing nuclear weapons. But surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the question of how nuclear weapons are legitimized in the first place. And while there is widespread agreement that struggles for legitimacy make up a pervasive feature of political life generally and nuclear politics specifica…
Seizing Nuclear Tehran
In this article, we interrogate some of the central assumptions in the literature on Iran's nuclear behavior, including the role of the United States as a benevolent hegemon, the revisionist character of the Iranian government, the utility and efficacy of sanctions, and the widespread assumption that Iran is bent on obtaining and even using the bomb. We maintain that contemporary debates on the Iranian nuclear issue display similarities to Kremli…
Casting the atomic canon
Looming decisions on arms control and strategic weapon procurements in a range of nuclear-armed states are set to shape the international security environment for decades to come. In this context, it is crucial to understand the concepts, theories, and debates that condition nuclear policymaking. This review essay dissects the four editions of The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy , the authoritative intellectual history of its subject. Using this wi…
A theory of nuclear disarmament
What might prompt a nuclear-armed state to give up its arsenal? Nuclear disarmament has provided a nominally shared goal for virtually all the world’s states for decades, yet surprisingly little effort has been devoted to systematically theorizing its drivers. This article aims to begin filling this void. I proceed in three steps. First, I discuss the conceptual, material, and ideational features of renunciation to arrive at a rudimentary underst…
The Ideology of Nuclear Order
The “global nuclear order” is commonly understood as an evolving set of institutions, norms, and practices governing the development and use of nuclear technology worldwide. The pursuit of nuclear order is often portrayed as a “pragmatic” or “practical” compromise between unconstrained nuclear anarchy, on the one hand, and prompt steps toward nuclear disarmament, on the other. In this article, I use the tools of ideology critique to conceptualize…
Dead rubber diplomacy
What can we expect from the upcoming review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)? Judging by the predictions of the nuclear expert class – not much. A worsenin
Toward a Foreign Policy for the Democratic Party
“Donald Trump has pursued hegemony more openly than any of his predecessors,” writes Richard Ned Lebow. “However, the goals he seeks are not so different from those of prior administrations” (p. 9). Lebow is far from the first to criticize American foreign policy or the beltway blob. However, A Democratic Foreign Policy is comfortably one of the most stimulating contributions to the latest wave of this rapidly expanding genre (e.g., Mearsheimer 2…
Spreading the Burden
Common knowledge has it that the end of the Cold War allowed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to push the nuclear genie back into the bottle. But whilst NATO members have reduced the alliance’s practical, military reliance on nuclear arms, their commitment to nuclear defence as a shared, symbolic enterprise has in fact grown increasingly explicit over time, with NATO declaring itself a ‘nuclear alliance’ in 2010. The following analys…
Who stole disarmament? History and nostalgia in nuclear abolition discourse
Influential members of the disarmament community have in recent years maintained that further progress towards the international community's nominally shared goal of a world without nuclear weapons depends on recapturing the spirit and practices of cooperation that prevailed in the late 1980s and 1990s. Proponents of abolition, in this view, should focus their efforts on revitalizing the tried and tested arms control formula that was implemented …
Arms, Influence and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The TPNW challenges the legitimacy of nuclear deterrence, but it would not eliminate deterrence in practice
Introduction
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), adopted by 122 states in July 2017, answers to at least two key demands. First, the treaty codifies its supporters’ aspiration to disturb the hegemonic nuclear discourse and galvanise nuclear disarmament processes. Second, the TPNW constitutes a symbolic response to the perceived failure of the established nuclear powers to live up to their Non-Proliferation Treaty disarmament commitments. …
The nuclear weapons ban treaty and the non-proliferation regime
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in July 2017, has been met with mixed reactions. While supporters have described the Treaty as a watershed in the struggle for disarmament, others have expressed fervent opposition. One of the most serious charges levelled at the TPNW is that it will undermine the long-standing nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), by many regarded as a corne…
Veien til null – studier i global sikkerhet og kjernefysisk nedrustning
Kjernefysisk nedrustning har vært et uttalt mål for det internasjonale samfunnet siden 1946. Men veien til en atomvåpenfri verden blir bare lengre og lengre. Samtlige atomvåpenstater er i dag gang med omfattende moderniseringer av sine kjernefysiske våpen. Hva kan faglitteraturen lære oss om veien til null? De to artikkelsamlingene diskutert her – Stable Nuclear Zero og Getting to Zero – tar mål av seg til å forklare hvordan en verden uten atomvå…
The diplomacy of resistance
The humanitarian initiative for nuclear disarmament has challenged and transformed global nuclear politics. Aimed at delegitimising nuclear weapons as acceptable instruments of statecraft, the initiative has been backed by many civil society organisations and most non-nuclear-weapon states. The nuclear-weapon states, however, have opposed the initiative, accusing it of undermining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and destabilising nuclear pol…
The Ideology of Nuclear Order
The “global nuclear order” is commonly understood as an evolving set of institutions, norms, and practices governing the development and use of nuclear technology worldwide. The pursuit of nuclear order is often portrayed as a “pragmatic” or “practical” compromise between unconstrained nuclear anarchy, on the one hand, and prompt steps toward nuclear disarmament, on the other. In this article, I use the tools of ideology critique to conceptualize…
Spreading the Burden
Common knowledge has it that the end of the Cold War allowed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to push the nuclear genie back into the bottle. But whilst NATO members have reduced the alliance’s practical, military reliance on nuclear arms, their commitment to nuclear defence as a shared, symbolic enterprise has in fact grown increasingly explicit over time, with NATO declaring itself a ‘nuclear alliance’ in 2010. The following analys…
A theory of nuclear disarmament
What might prompt a nuclear-armed state to give up its arsenal? Nuclear disarmament has provided a nominally shared goal for virtually all the world’s states for decades, yet surprisingly little effort has been devoted to systematically theorizing its drivers. This article aims to begin filling this void. I proceed in three steps. First, I discuss the conceptual, material, and ideational features of renunciation to arrive at a rudimentary underst…
The diplomacy of resistance
The humanitarian initiative for nuclear disarmament has challenged and transformed global nuclear politics. Aimed at delegitimising nuclear weapons as acceptable instruments of statecraft, the initiative has been backed by many civil society organisations and most non-nuclear-weapon states. The nuclear-weapon states, however, have opposed the initiative, accusing it of undermining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and destabilising nuclear pol…
No such thing as a free donation? Research funding and conflicts of interest in nuclear weapons policy analysis
Numerous scholars have in recent years concluded that the field of nuclear weapons policy analysis is plagued by widespread self-censorship, conformism, and enduring disconnects between accepted knowledge and available evidence. It has been hypothesized that this tendency is fostered in part by many analysts' reliance on funding from donors with interests in the perpetuation of the existing nuclear order. In this article, we probe this hypothesis…
Disentangling the Nexus of Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change—A Research Agenda
Global warming and nuclear war are frequently described as the world's greatest threats. Both challenges could be understood as expressions of modern science and technology, and both present tough collective action problems. They are also mutually entangled. Yet students of security have still to systematically unpack the relationship between climate change and the politics of nuclear weapons. In this article, I critically review the nascent lite…
The false promise of nuclear risk reduction
In a context of intensifying great power competition and deep divergences of view between nuclear and non-nuclear powers on the urgency of nuclear abolition, 'nuclear risk reduction' has gained renewed attention as a pragmatic framework for managing and progressively reducing nuclear dangers. The idea is simple: with more fundamental policy changes either undesirable or out of reach, advocates of nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament should f…
Casting the atomic canon
Looming decisions on arms control and strategic weapon procurements in a range of nuclear-armed states are set to shape the international security environment for decades to come. In this context, it is crucial to understand the concepts, theories, and debates that condition nuclear policymaking. This review essay dissects the four editions of The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy , the authoritative intellectual history of its subject. Using this wi…
Who stole disarmament? History and nostalgia in nuclear abolition discourse
Influential members of the disarmament community have in recent years maintained that further progress towards the international community's nominally shared goal of a world without nuclear weapons depends on recapturing the spirit and practices of cooperation that prevailed in the late 1980s and 1990s. Proponents of abolition, in this view, should focus their efforts on revitalizing the tried and tested arms control formula that was implemented …
Banning the Bomb
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons
What do people really think about nuclear weapons? Responding to Dill, Sagan, and Valentino's “Kettles of Hawks” in Security Studies 31, we examine the inconsistency between different surveys of public attitudes toward nuclear weapons use. We maintain that different survey techniques tap into disparate layers of opinion—each of which is “real” in their own way and of analytical value depending on the research question being asked. We conclude by …
Climate security reversed
Policymakers and scholars have in recent years paid increasing attention to the climate–security nexus. However, discussions have been overwhelmingly focused on the security implications of climate change, neglecting the question of the climate implications of alternative approaches to security. On closer inspection, security policies can impact global warming in at least four ways. First, security apparatuses produce direct greenhouse gas emissi…
Seizing Nuclear Tehran
In this article, we interrogate some of the central assumptions in the literature on Iran's nuclear behavior, including the role of the United States as a benevolent hegemon, the revisionist character of the Iranian government, the utility and efficacy of sanctions, and the widespread assumption that Iran is bent on obtaining and even using the bomb. We maintain that contemporary debates on the Iranian nuclear issue display similarities to Kremli…
Arms, Influence and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The TPNW challenges the legitimacy of nuclear deterrence, but it would not eliminate deterrence in practice
Punctuated Equilibrium in Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
The goal of creating a world free of nuclear weapons was adopted by the international community in 1946. It was in the United Nations’ (UN) first ever resolution that the member states of the UN ca
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Punctuated Equilibrium in Multilateral Nuclear Disarmament
The goal of creating a world free of nuclear weapons was adopted by the international community in 1946. It was in the United Nations’ (UN) first ever resolution that the member states of the UN ca
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace Diplomatic “Polarization”
The vocation of the diplomat is to craft deals, build (metaphorical) bridges, and maintain “good relations” between states. The traditional function of diplomacy—multilateral and bilateral—is to ge
The nuclear weapons ban treaty and the non-proliferation regime
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), adopted by the United Nations General Assembly in July 2017, has been met with mixed reactions. While supporters have described the Treaty as a watershed in the struggle for disarmament, others have expressed fervent opposition. One of the most serious charges levelled at the TPNW is that it will undermine the long-standing nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), by many regarded as a corne…
Veien til null – studier i global sikkerhet og kjernefysisk nedrustning
Kjernefysisk nedrustning har vært et uttalt mål for det internasjonale samfunnet siden 1946. Men veien til en atomvåpenfri verden blir bare lengre og lengre. Samtlige atomvåpenstater er i dag gang med omfattende moderniseringer av sine kjernefysiske våpen. Hva kan faglitteraturen lære oss om veien til null? De to artikkelsamlingene diskutert her – Stable Nuclear Zero og Getting to Zero – tar mål av seg til å forklare hvordan en verden uten atomvå…
The diplomacy of resistance
The humanitarian initiative for nuclear disarmament has challenged and transformed global nuclear politics. Aimed at delegitimising nuclear weapons as acceptable instruments of statecraft, the initiative has been backed by many civil society organisations and most non-nuclear-weapon states. The nuclear-weapon states, however, have opposed the initiative, accusing it of undermining the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and destabilising nuclear pol…
Banning the Bomb
Arms, Influence and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
The TPNW challenges the legitimacy of nuclear deterrence, but it would not eliminate deterrence in practice
Introduction
The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW), adopted by 122 states in July 2017, answers to at least two key demands. First, the treaty codifies its supporters’ aspiration to disturb the hegemonic nuclear discourse and galvanise nuclear disarmament processes. Second, the TPNW constitutes a symbolic response to the perceived failure of the established nuclear powers to live up to their Non-Proliferation Treaty disarmament commitments. …
Dead rubber diplomacy
What can we expect from the upcoming review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT)? Judging by the predictions of the nuclear expert class – not much. A worsenin
Toward a Foreign Policy for the Democratic Party
“Donald Trump has pursued hegemony more openly than any of his predecessors,” writes Richard Ned Lebow. “However, the goals he seeks are not so different from those of prior administrations” (p. 9). Lebow is far from the first to criticize American foreign policy or the beltway blob. However, A Democratic Foreign Policy is comfortably one of the most stimulating contributions to the latest wave of this rapidly expanding genre (e.g., Mearsheimer 2…
Spreading the Burden
Common knowledge has it that the end of the Cold War allowed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to push the nuclear genie back into the bottle. But whilst NATO members have reduced the alliance’s practical, military reliance on nuclear arms, their commitment to nuclear defence as a shared, symbolic enterprise has in fact grown increasingly explicit over time, with NATO declaring itself a ‘nuclear alliance’ in 2010. The following analys…
Who stole disarmament? History and nostalgia in nuclear abolition discourse
Influential members of the disarmament community have in recent years maintained that further progress towards the international community's nominally shared goal of a world without nuclear weapons depends on recapturing the spirit and practices of cooperation that prevailed in the late 1980s and 1990s. Proponents of abolition, in this view, should focus their efforts on revitalizing the tried and tested arms control formula that was implemented …
Casting the atomic canon
Looming decisions on arms control and strategic weapon procurements in a range of nuclear-armed states are set to shape the international security environment for decades to come. In this context, it is crucial to understand the concepts, theories, and debates that condition nuclear policymaking. This review essay dissects the four editions of The Evolution of Nuclear Strategy , the authoritative intellectual history of its subject. Using this wi…
A theory of nuclear disarmament
What might prompt a nuclear-armed state to give up its arsenal? Nuclear disarmament has provided a nominally shared goal for virtually all the world’s states for decades, yet surprisingly little effort has been devoted to systematically theorizing its drivers. This article aims to begin filling this void. I proceed in three steps. First, I discuss the conceptual, material, and ideational features of renunciation to arrive at a rudimentary underst…
The Ideology of Nuclear Order
The “global nuclear order” is commonly understood as an evolving set of institutions, norms, and practices governing the development and use of nuclear technology worldwide. The pursuit of nuclear order is often portrayed as a “pragmatic” or “practical” compromise between unconstrained nuclear anarchy, on the one hand, and prompt steps toward nuclear disarmament, on the other. In this article, I use the tools of ideology critique to conceptualize…
Sustaining social license
Several observers have in recent years discussed the prospects for advancing arms control and disarmament through determined efforts at delegitimizing nuclear weapons. But surprisingly little attention has been devoted to the question of how nuclear weapons are legitimized in the first place. And while there is widespread agreement that struggles for legitimacy make up a pervasive feature of political life generally and nuclear politics specifica…
Seizing Nuclear Tehran
In this article, we interrogate some of the central assumptions in the literature on Iran's nuclear behavior, including the role of the United States as a benevolent hegemon, the revisionist character of the Iranian government, the utility and efficacy of sanctions, and the widespread assumption that Iran is bent on obtaining and even using the bomb. We maintain that contemporary debates on the Iranian nuclear issue display similarities to Kremli…
Experts, activists, and girl bosses of the nuclear apocalypse
Having long been regarded as irrelevant to the high politics of foreign affairs, feminism and gender equality have in recent years gained increased attention in international security debates, including discussions about nuclear weapons policy. Several governments have adopted official feminist foreign policy postures, international security institutions have launched inquiries into gender equity and representation, and a myriad of security actor…
Able Archer
Able Archer 83, a NATO nuclear exercise conducted in the fall of 1983, has been the subject of considerable debate in recent decades. While some analysts have argued that the superpowers came close to blows due to Soviet fears that the exercise was a ruse meant to disguise a NATO attack, revisionists have maintained that the danger associated with Able Archer 83 has been seriously overstated. In this article, the authors review the scholarship, t…
Thinking about What People Think about Nuclear Weapons
What do people really think about nuclear weapons? Responding to Dill, Sagan, and Valentino's “Kettles of Hawks” in Security Studies 31, we examine the inconsistency between different surveys of public attitudes toward nuclear weapons use. We maintain that different survey techniques tap into disparate layers of opinion—each of which is “real” in their own way and of analytical value depending on the research question being asked. We conclude by …
Climate security reversed
Policymakers and scholars have in recent years paid increasing attention to the climate–security nexus. However, discussions have been overwhelmingly focused on the security implications of climate change, neglecting the question of the climate implications of alternative approaches to security. On closer inspection, security policies can impact global warming in at least four ways. First, security apparatuses produce direct greenhouse gas emissi…
A subtle call to greatness
In this article, we analyse the implications of the end of the Cold War for US non-proliferation policy and the non-proliferation regime. Contrary to widely held expectations, we show that the end of bipolarity did not undercut the pursuit of non-proliferation but supercharge it. While bipolarity had afforded non-proliferation hold-outs opportunities to evade superpower pressure, the structural condition of unipolarity both incentivised and enabl…
The ‘Cosmic Bluff’ Revisited
What is the point of a nuclear umbrella? Conventional wisdom suggests that explicit nuclear security guarantees provide junior allies with credible security, facilitating regional stability and nuclear non-proliferation. Yet this is not the only possible reason to maintain a nuclear umbrella. Reassessing the history and politics of nuclear alignment through a case study of the US-Norway alliance, I find that nuclear umbrellas have endured, and ca…
Trust and confidence in regime creation and sustainment
The concepts of trust, confidence, faith, and we-feeling feature prominently in discussions about international cooperation and conflict. In broad strokes, each term is typically used to refer to a notion of risk or dependability, that is, a sense or assessment of the extent to which someone or something can be relied upon. Yet, there is considerable confusion about what the respective concepts describe more specifically. Many analysts have resor…
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