Nuclear Order and Disorder
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3697464 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Willard Walker (0000-0002-3356-8036, University of St Andrews, corresponding author), William Walker |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 76 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 703-724 |
| Publication date | 2000-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-5850 • E-ISSN: 1468-2346 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2346.00160 |
| OpenAlex | W1973794784 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
After a decade of great progress in diminishing the risks posed by nuclear weapons, international nuclear relations came unstuck in the late 1990s. Why did this happen? This question is best answered through an understanding of how a ‘nuclear order’ was constructed during the Cold War, how it developed in the early post-Cold War period, and how confidence in it dissipated as the 1990s wore on. After considering how the nuclear order was founded upon linked systems of deterrence and abstinence, the article explains how both were destabilized in the mid- to late 1990s—cause and effect of the United States shifting its ordering strategy towards protection (through missile defences) and enforcement. Can confidence in nuclear order be restored? How should we regard the recent agreement among States Parties to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement to press for complete nuclear disarmament
Economics · Order (exchange) · Order and disorder · Physics · Condensed Matter Physics · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Nuclear Issues and Defense · Psychology
Nuclear time
US Extended Nuclear Deterrence and Nuclear Order
The Ideology of Nuclear Order
North Korea and the Global Nuclear Order
The Evolution of International Security Studies
Jesting with a Double-Edge Sword
The Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime as a “Failed Promise
Hawks in the making? European public views on nuclear weapons post‐Ukraine
Distressing a system in distress
Rethinking the Deterrence-Disarmament Dichotomy
A Leader Without Followers? The United States in World Politics after Bush
Making nuclear possession possible
Not by NPT alone
Durable institution under fire? The NPT confronts emerging multipolarity
When is it legitimate to abandon the NPT? Withdrawal as a political tool to move nuclear disarmament forward
A hegemonic nuclear order
The Trilateral Dilemma
The instability of the nuclear nonproliferation regime complex
The complexity of nuclear (dis)ordering
Nuclear regime complex and state relations in nuclear ordering
Complexity, depoliticisation, and African nuclear ordering agency
The nuclear weapons ban treaty and the non-proliferation regime
Structure amid change
Brazil and the TPNW
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,33 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2026 (19) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 21 |