Getting to Nuclear Zero in Northeast Asia

The Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zone as a Vehicle for Change
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-97767-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Asian Security Studies

This book presents realistic alternatives to security policies based on nuclear weapons for the Northeast Asian region. 

Northeast Asian governments and populations feel less secure than ever, and the governments of the USA, Russia, China and North Korea are all expending considerable resources on increasing their nuclear arsenals. This book presents realistic alternatives to security policies dependent on threats to use nuclear weapons and demonstrations of the resolve to use them in a war.  Those alternatives are grounded in the well-established concept of common security. The long-term goal of these alternatives is the establishment of a nuclear-weapon-free zone in Northeast Asia.  This book demonstrates that lessons learned during the creation of existing nuclear-weapon-free zones can be successfully adapted, using the proposed alternatives to nuclear threats, to the considerably more challenging circumstances that exist in contemporary Northeast Asia.  More importantly, it makes the case that the mere process of pursuing this objective, even if the goal is not  realized for many decades, would help facilitate regional risk-reduction measures and global nuclear arms control measures that could lead, in the long term, to the general and complete disarmament promised by  the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) of 2021.

This book will be of interest to students of nuclear proliferation, Asian security, foreign policy and International Relations.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate, Professional Reference, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kulacki, Gregory

Suh, Jae-Jung

Nakamura, Keiko

Suzuki, Tatsujiro

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Diplomatie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Staatsbürgerkunde, Staatsbürgerschaft, Zivilgesellschaft
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Internationale Organisationen und Institutionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Konflikt- und Friedensforschung, Rüstungskontrolle, Abrüstung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Friedens- und Konfliktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Militärwesen Nationale und Internationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part I: Introduction  Chapter 1. An Opening for Regional Denuclearization: Executive Introduction  Part II: Connecting Past Practice to Current Problems  Chapter 2. The US-China Competition Is Going Nuclear: Deadlock on Thin Ice  Chapter 3. A Nuclear-Weapons-Free Zone in Northeast Asia: From a Japanese Security Perspective  Chapter 4. Changing Security Dynamics in the Korean Peninsula: Rising Strategic Competition, Destabilizing Balance of Terror  Chapter 5. The Mongolian Miracle: From Buffer to Beacon  Part III: The Path to Denuclearization: Risk Reduction through Common Security  Chapter 6. Revisiting the Comprehensive Security Roadmap To Reduce the Risk of War on the Korean Peninsula  Chapter 7. Reconsidering Extended Nuclear Deterrence: Inherent Flaws Within  Chapter 8. Rationale for a NWFZ in Northeast Asia Leading to Global Nuclear Disarmament: A Viewpoint from International Law  Chapter 9: Getting to Zero in Korea: Weathered Carriage on a Viable Path   Chapter 10. Civil Society Initiatives for Establishing a Northeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone: Focusing on Debates in the Japanese Diet  Part IV: Conclusion  Chapter 11. Toward a Secure Northeast Asia without Nuclear Weapons: Proposing NWFZ 2.0 and a C3 Security Regime

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory Kulacki is the East Asia Project Director for the Union of Concerned Scientists, USA, and a Non-Resident Fellow at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition at Nagasaki University, Japan.

Keiko Nakamura is an Associate Professor at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), Japan.

Jae-Jung Suh is Professor of International Relations at International Christian University, Japan and author and editor of several books on security in Northeast Asia and Korea.

Tatsujiro Suzuki is a Visiting Professor at the Research Center for Nuclear Weapons Abolition, Nagasaki University (RECNA), Japan. Before joining RECNA, he served as Vice Chairman of Japan Atomic Energy Commission from 2010-2014. He is the author of Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Power (2017).