The Humanitarian Initiative: A Critical Appreciation

Tannenwald, Nina

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“…Defining the established major powers as ‘nuclear-weapon states’, the NPT ‘effectively legitimizes deterrence’ for a select group of states (Tannenwald 2020 : 125; see also e.g. Ritchie 2019 : 418; Ruzicka 2018 : 372).…”

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Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation

Egeland

2022

Int Polit

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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 specifically, available typologies of legitimation invariably comprise only a subset of the varied ways in which actors struggle to build or retain a social license to operate. Drawing on scholarship on propaganda, marketing, and legitimacy-seeking, this article offers an investigation of the full range of actions nuclear-armed governments and defence contractors undertake to sustain acceptance for the continued development and deployment of nuclear arms. Four broad categories of legitimation are identified: discursive legitimation, institutional legitimation, behavioural legitimation, and legitimation through information control.

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Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation

Egeland

2022

Int Polit

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“…However, some have argued that the Ban Treaty stigmatizes nuclear weapons somewhat akin to the Chemical Weapons Convention and chemical weapons. Seen this way, "The treaty is not really about providing a framework for disarmament but rather about providing a focal point for stigmatization politics" (Tannenwald 2020). Even so, its capability to stigmatize nuclear weapon possession is limited given the number of nuclear weapon relevant states that oppose it.…”

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The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Delayed Review – Issues Old and New

Graham¹

2021

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament

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This paper addresses the current uncertain status of the NPT Review Conference, originally scheduled for 2020. When the Conference is eventually held, three principal issues likely to be examined are the continued failure to bring the CTBT into force; the lack of progress leading to an international conference on the importance of promptly negotiating a Weapons of Mass Destruction Free Zone for the Middle East, the cause of the failure of the 2015 Review Conference; and the effect on the Review Conference of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, which entered into force in January 2021. The 2020 Review Conference is now scheduled for August 2021. Thus the prediction of which matters will be most important at the Conference is somewhat uncertain. Whenever the Conference is held, serious issues will confront it. The Treaty has been weakened over the years; it is significantly endangered by the increasing threat of climate change. It is highly important to strengthen the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty, the centerpiece of international security, to maximize its chances to remain viable against the threat of climate change. A strong, positive Review Conference will do much to achieve this.

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Humanitarian Disarmament II: Case Studies

Cooper

2022

The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies

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The Humanitarian Initiative: A Critical Appreciation

Cited by 9 publications

References 8 publications

Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation

Sustaining social license: nuclear weapons and the art of legitimation

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty: Delayed Review – Issues Old and New

Humanitarian Disarmament II: Case Studies

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