The Birth of an International Community: Negotiating the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
The Birth of an International Community: Negotiating the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons
The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons opened for signature on July 1, 1968, culminating a decade of multilateral efforts to regulate nuclear technology. Negotiations succeeded thanks to a global cadre of diplomats who brokered the treaty despite East-West tensions and North-South distrust. New institutions and internationalist principles led U.S. diplomats to surmount long-standing Cold War barriers, opening a window of opportunity to work with Soviet officials. As former enemies found common ground, their representatives outlined a zone of possible agreement that met the concerns of all but a handful of states from the Industrial North and the Global South. Superpower collaboration and Latin American leadership in Geneva and New York allowed the international community then emerging from decolonization to strike a bargain, which endowed a new global nuclear regime with the rules, norms, and institutions needed to manage the Janus-faced atom.
9780190226114
Hunt, Jonathan
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October 2015
Hunt, Jonathan
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Hunt, Jonathan
(2015)
The Birth of an International Community: Negotiating the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.
In,
Hutchings, Robert and Suri, Jeremi
(eds.)
Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Case Studies in Successful Diplomacy.
Oxford.
Oxford University Press.
(doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190226114.003.0004).
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The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons opened for signature on July 1, 1968, culminating a decade of multilateral efforts to regulate nuclear technology. Negotiations succeeded thanks to a global cadre of diplomats who brokered the treaty despite East-West tensions and North-South distrust. New institutions and internationalist principles led U.S. diplomats to surmount long-standing Cold War barriers, opening a window of opportunity to work with Soviet officials. As former enemies found common ground, their representatives outlined a zone of possible agreement that met the concerns of all but a handful of states from the Industrial North and the Global South. Superpower collaboration and Latin American leadership in Geneva and New York allowed the international community then emerging from decolonization to strike a bargain, which endowed a new global nuclear regime with the rules, norms, and institutions needed to manage the Janus-faced atom.
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