Nina Tannenwald
Biographic Data
| ID | 2515952 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nina Tannenwald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nina |
| FAMILY NAME | Tannenwald |
| SIGNATURE | TANNENWALD N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brown University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 278 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime as a “Failed Promise
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) forms the core of the most prominent multilateral security governance regime of the liberal international order (LIO). Despite being a widely supported and remarkably successful security regime to prohibit the spread of nuclear weapons, NPT politics have become increasingly polarized. In this article, I analyze contestation and self-undermining dynamics in the nuclear regime. The NPT is a strongly institu…
The Age of Hiroshima
Life beyond Arms Control
Today, we are on the verge of a world without nuclear restraint. In the absence of formal arms control, how do we proceed? What broad principles and norms would we want? What measures might nuclear-armed states take, even without formal agreement, that would reduce the risk of nuclear war and control the arms race? I suggest that nuclear-armed states move toward a global regime of nuclear restraint and responsibility. Restraint would primarily ta…
How Strong Is the Nuclear Taboo Today
Since August 1945, when the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan in the closing days of WWII, no nation has employed nuclear weapons during war. Many people at the time fully expected t
Do the Geneva Conventions Matter?
The book offers a comparative analysis of state practice with regard to the Geneva Conventions. It seeks to answer three questions of critical importance to understanding their role and impact: (1) How have the Geneva Conventions been incorporated into the laws and practices governing armed forces in particular countries? (2) In what ways has the Geneva regime constrained the behavior of states facing situations such as guerrilla warfare and terr…
Geneva Convention Compliance in Iraq and Afghanistan
US compliance with the Geneva Conventions in Iraq and Afghanistan appeared to vary with the particular subject matter and battle space. In military operations during the last decade, the United States assessed the legality of virtually every proposed target to avoid the intentional targeting of civilians. Legal specialists also, however, flagrantly overlooked Common Article 3’s minimum prescription that all captured individuals have the right to …
Process Tracing and Security Studies
Process tracing is used widely in security studies to advance all kinds of arguments. When, if ever, is it capable of "resolving" anything? Does the outcome of debates hinge on "good" or "bad" process tracing? In short, does process tracing lead to superior scholarly work? How would we know? This essay considers how we can judge whether some process tracing claims are more convincing than others, drawing on the competing process tracing-based cla…
Justice and Fairness in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
Today, the nuclear regime is widely perceived to be in crisis. While part of this crisis has to do with direct challenges to the regime posed by the illicit nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, from the perspective of much of the developing world, the issues facing the nonproliferation regime are overwhelmingly about the justice and fairness of the regime's norms, rules, and procedures. Indeed, it is difficult to identify a security regime t…
The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons by T. V. Paul
The Nuclear Taboo
Why have nuclear weapons not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? Nina Tannenwald disputes the conventional answer of 'deterrence' in favour of what she calls a nuclear taboo - a widespread inhibition on using nuclear weapons - which has arisen in global politics. Drawing on newly released archival sources, Tannenwald traces the rise of the nuclear taboo, the forces that produced it, and its influence, particularly on US leaders. She a…
Not Anything Goes
Norms of War, by Theo Farrell, traces how war and the preparations for war are shaped by normative and cultural factors. The exposition is elaborated through four empirical case studies: the first on military organization and the Irish army, the second on collective memory and conceptions of mass industrial warfare in World War II, the third on the US nonuse and targeting of nuclear weapons, and the fourth on humanitarian intervention in the 1990…
Nuclear Weapons and the Vietnam War
This article analyzes why US leaders did not use nuclear weapons during the Vietnam War. To date, there has been no systematic study of US decision-making on nuclear weapons during this war. This article offers an initial analysis, focusing on the Johnson and Nixon administrations. Although US leaders did not come close to using nuclear weapons in the conflict, nuclear options received more attention than has previously been appreciated. Johnson'…
Introduction
The end of the Cold War helped to prompt new interest in the study of ideas in international politics. Once the province of a few dedicated researchers on the fringes of the discipline, scholarship on the role of ideas now occupies an important place in the mainstream of North American and especially European international relations research. The five articles in this special issue of the journal are intended to move the research agenda on ideas …
Ideas and Explanation
This article responds to key methodological and theoretical challenges posed by the literature on the role of ideas in international relations, especially the literature on ideas and the end of the Cold War. The article develops a theoretical framework that guides the analysis of the empirical articles that follow. It identifies explanatory strategies for the role of ideas and seeks to clarify key methodological issues in the study of ideas. The …
Stigmatizing the Bomb
April 01 2005 Stigmatizing the Bomb: Origins of the Nuclear Taboo Nina Tannenwald Nina Tannenwald Director of the International Relations Program and Joukowsky Family Research Assistant Professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Nina Tannenwald Director of the International Relations Program and Joukowsky Family …
Stigmatizing the Bomb
April 01 2005 Stigmatizing the Bomb: Origins of the Nuclear Taboo Nina Tannenwald Nina Tannenwald Director of the International Relations Program and Joukowsky Family Research Assistant Professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Nina Tannenwald Director of the International Relations Program and Joukowsky Family …
U.S. Arms Control Policy in a Time Warp
There is much hand-wringing in the arms control trenches these days over the role and future of arms control in U.S. policy. Liberal supporters of arms control lament what they see as a decade of missed opportunities to pursue deep cuts in the world's nuclear arsenals and to strengthen the regimes for controlling the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Those on the right, perceiving grave weaknesses in Cold War–era arms control regimes, prefer…
The Bomb and Its Discontents
Books reviewed int this article: Resisting the Bomb. A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954–1970. Vol. 2 of The Struggle Against the Bomb, Lawrence S. Wittner Domestic Society and International Cooperation: The Impact of Protest on U.S. Arms Control Policy, Jeffrey W. Knopf Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940, Stephen I. Schwartz, ed
The Nuclear Taboo
We have recently witnessed the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. The non-use of nuclear weapons since then remains the single most important phenomenon of the nuclear age. Yet we still lack a full understanding of how this tradition arose and is maintained and of its prospects for the future. The widely cited explanation is deterrence, but this account is either wrong or inc…
The Nuclear Taboo
We have recently witnessed the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. The non-use of nuclear weapons since then remains the single most important phenomenon of the nuclear age. Yet we still lack a full understanding of how this tradition arose and is maintained and of its prospects for the future. The widely cited explanation is deterrence, but this account is either wrong or inc…
Stigmatizing the Bomb
April 01 2005 Stigmatizing the Bomb: Origins of the Nuclear Taboo Nina Tannenwald Nina Tannenwald Director of the International Relations Program and Joukowsky Family Research Assistant Professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Nina Tannenwald Director of the International Relations Program and Joukowsky Family …
Justice and Fairness in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
Today, the nuclear regime is widely perceived to be in crisis. While part of this crisis has to do with direct challenges to the regime posed by the illicit nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, from the perspective of much of the developing world, the issues facing the nonproliferation regime are overwhelmingly about the justice and fairness of the regime's norms, rules, and procedures. Indeed, it is difficult to identify a security regime t…
Ideas and Explanation
This article responds to key methodological and theoretical challenges posed by the literature on the role of ideas in international relations, especially the literature on ideas and the end of the Cold War. The article develops a theoretical framework that guides the analysis of the empirical articles that follow. It identifies explanatory strategies for the role of ideas and seeks to clarify key methodological issues in the study of ideas. The …
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime as a “Failed Promise
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) forms the core of the most prominent multilateral security governance regime of the liberal international order (LIO). Despite being a widely supported and remarkably successful security regime to prohibit the spread of nuclear weapons, NPT politics have become increasingly polarized. In this article, I analyze contestation and self-undermining dynamics in the nuclear regime. The NPT is a strongly institu…
Life beyond Arms Control
Today, we are on the verge of a world without nuclear restraint. In the absence of formal arms control, how do we proceed? What broad principles and norms would we want? What measures might nuclear-armed states take, even without formal agreement, that would reduce the risk of nuclear war and control the arms race? I suggest that nuclear-armed states move toward a global regime of nuclear restraint and responsibility. Restraint would primarily ta…
Process Tracing and Security Studies
Process tracing is used widely in security studies to advance all kinds of arguments. When, if ever, is it capable of "resolving" anything? Does the outcome of debates hinge on "good" or "bad" process tracing? In short, does process tracing lead to superior scholarly work? How would we know? This essay considers how we can judge whether some process tracing claims are more convincing than others, drawing on the competing process tracing-based cla…
Introduction
The end of the Cold War helped to prompt new interest in the study of ideas in international politics. Once the province of a few dedicated researchers on the fringes of the discipline, scholarship on the role of ideas now occupies an important place in the mainstream of North American and especially European international relations research. The five articles in this special issue of the journal are intended to move the research agenda on ideas …
How Strong Is the Nuclear Taboo Today
Since August 1945, when the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan in the closing days of WWII, no nation has employed nuclear weapons during war. Many people at the time fully expected t
The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons by T. V. Paul
Nuclear Weapons and the Vietnam War
This article analyzes why US leaders did not use nuclear weapons during the Vietnam War. To date, there has been no systematic study of US decision-making on nuclear weapons during this war. This article offers an initial analysis, focusing on the Johnson and Nixon administrations. Although US leaders did not come close to using nuclear weapons in the conflict, nuclear options received more attention than has previously been appreciated. Johnson'…
The Bomb and Its Discontents
Books reviewed int this article: Resisting the Bomb. A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954–1970. Vol. 2 of The Struggle Against the Bomb, Lawrence S. Wittner Domestic Society and International Cooperation: The Impact of Protest on U.S. Arms Control Policy, Jeffrey W. Knopf Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940, Stephen I. Schwartz, ed
The Bomb and Its Discontents
Books reviewed int this article: Resisting the Bomb. A History of the World Nuclear Disarmament Movement, 1954–1970. Vol. 2 of The Struggle Against the Bomb, Lawrence S. Wittner Domestic Society and International Cooperation: The Impact of Protest on U.S. Arms Control Policy, Jeffrey W. Knopf Atomic Audit: The Costs and Consequences of U.S. Nuclear Weapons Since 1940, Stephen I. Schwartz, ed
The Nuclear Taboo
We have recently witnessed the fiftieth anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the only use of nuclear weapons in warfare. The non-use of nuclear weapons since then remains the single most important phenomenon of the nuclear age. Yet we still lack a full understanding of how this tradition arose and is maintained and of its prospects for the future. The widely cited explanation is deterrence, but this account is either wrong or inc…
U.S. Arms Control Policy in a Time Warp
There is much hand-wringing in the arms control trenches these days over the role and future of arms control in U.S. policy. Liberal supporters of arms control lament what they see as a decade of missed opportunities to pursue deep cuts in the world's nuclear arsenals and to strengthen the regimes for controlling the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Those on the right, perceiving grave weaknesses in Cold War–era arms control regimes, prefer…
Introduction
The end of the Cold War helped to prompt new interest in the study of ideas in international politics. Once the province of a few dedicated researchers on the fringes of the discipline, scholarship on the role of ideas now occupies an important place in the mainstream of North American and especially European international relations research. The five articles in this special issue of the journal are intended to move the research agenda on ideas …
Ideas and Explanation
This article responds to key methodological and theoretical challenges posed by the literature on the role of ideas in international relations, especially the literature on ideas and the end of the Cold War. The article develops a theoretical framework that guides the analysis of the empirical articles that follow. It identifies explanatory strategies for the role of ideas and seeks to clarify key methodological issues in the study of ideas. The …
Stigmatizing the Bomb
April 01 2005 Stigmatizing the Bomb: Origins of the Nuclear Taboo Nina Tannenwald Nina Tannenwald Director of the International Relations Program and Joukowsky Family Research Assistant Professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Nina Tannenwald Director of the International Relations Program and Joukowsky Family …
Stigmatizing the Bomb
April 01 2005 Stigmatizing the Bomb: Origins of the Nuclear Taboo Nina Tannenwald Nina Tannenwald Director of the International Relations Program and Joukowsky Family Research Assistant Professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Nina Tannenwald Director of the International Relations Program and Joukowsky Family …
Nuclear Weapons and the Vietnam War
This article analyzes why US leaders did not use nuclear weapons during the Vietnam War. To date, there has been no systematic study of US decision-making on nuclear weapons during this war. This article offers an initial analysis, focusing on the Johnson and Nixon administrations. Although US leaders did not come close to using nuclear weapons in the conflict, nuclear options received more attention than has previously been appreciated. Johnson'…
The Nuclear Taboo
Why have nuclear weapons not been used since Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945? Nina Tannenwald disputes the conventional answer of 'deterrence' in favour of what she calls a nuclear taboo - a widespread inhibition on using nuclear weapons - which has arisen in global politics. Drawing on newly released archival sources, Tannenwald traces the rise of the nuclear taboo, the forces that produced it, and its influence, particularly on US leaders. She a…
Not Anything Goes
Norms of War, by Theo Farrell, traces how war and the preparations for war are shaped by normative and cultural factors. The exposition is elaborated through four empirical case studies: the first on military organization and the Irish army, the second on collective memory and conceptions of mass industrial warfare in World War II, the third on the US nonuse and targeting of nuclear weapons, and the fourth on humanitarian intervention in the 1990…
The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons by T. V. Paul
Justice and Fairness in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
Today, the nuclear regime is widely perceived to be in crisis. While part of this crisis has to do with direct challenges to the regime posed by the illicit nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, from the perspective of much of the developing world, the issues facing the nonproliferation regime are overwhelmingly about the justice and fairness of the regime's norms, rules, and procedures. Indeed, it is difficult to identify a security regime t…
Process Tracing and Security Studies
Process tracing is used widely in security studies to advance all kinds of arguments. When, if ever, is it capable of "resolving" anything? Does the outcome of debates hinge on "good" or "bad" process tracing? In short, does process tracing lead to superior scholarly work? How would we know? This essay considers how we can judge whether some process tracing claims are more convincing than others, drawing on the competing process tracing-based cla…
Do the Geneva Conventions Matter?
The book offers a comparative analysis of state practice with regard to the Geneva Conventions. It seeks to answer three questions of critical importance to understanding their role and impact: (1) How have the Geneva Conventions been incorporated into the laws and practices governing armed forces in particular countries? (2) In what ways has the Geneva regime constrained the behavior of states facing situations such as guerrilla warfare and terr…
Geneva Convention Compliance in Iraq and Afghanistan
US compliance with the Geneva Conventions in Iraq and Afghanistan appeared to vary with the particular subject matter and battle space. In military operations during the last decade, the United States assessed the legality of virtually every proposed target to avoid the intentional targeting of civilians. Legal specialists also, however, flagrantly overlooked Common Article 3’s minimum prescription that all captured individuals have the right to …
How Strong Is the Nuclear Taboo Today
Since August 1945, when the United States dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan in the closing days of WWII, no nation has employed nuclear weapons during war. Many people at the time fully expected t
The Age of Hiroshima
Life beyond Arms Control
Today, we are on the verge of a world without nuclear restraint. In the absence of formal arms control, how do we proceed? What broad principles and norms would we want? What measures might nuclear-armed states take, even without formal agreement, that would reduce the risk of nuclear war and control the arms race? I suggest that nuclear-armed states move toward a global regime of nuclear restraint and responsibility. Restraint would primarily ta…
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime as a “Failed Promise
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) forms the core of the most prominent multilateral security governance regime of the liberal international order (LIO). Despite being a widely supported and remarkably successful security regime to prohibit the spread of nuclear weapons, NPT politics have become increasingly polarized. In this article, I analyze contestation and self-undermining dynamics in the nuclear regime. The NPT is a strongly institu…
Political science (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Nuclear Issues and Defense (11 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (10 works) · Nuclear weapon (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Political economy (6 works) · Taboo (6 works)