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The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons: a Promise, a Threat or a Flop? [PDF]

The Italian Yearbook of International Law Online, 2018
On 7 July 2017 a UN Conference, convened in New York by the General Assembly, adopted a Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, providing for the first total ban on these weapons intended to be global in scale. The Treaty was opened for signature on 20 September 2017.
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When, What, and Why do States Choose to Delegate? [PDF]

, 2008
Koremenos demonstrates that international delegation is an important and nontrivial empirical phenomenon. Using an extensive data set created from the United Nations Treaty Series, she finds that almost half of all international agreements involve ...
Koremenos, Barbara
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“The Strength of Our Weakness”: Bandung at 70

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
The year 2025 marked many well-known anniversaries of the nuclear age. Unbeknownst to many, it also marked the 70th anniversary of the 1955 Bandung Conference, when delegates and heads of state from twenty-nine Asian and African countries, representing ...
Leyatt Betre, Zia Mian
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Global Zero Regime: Need to Transition from Heteronomous to Autonomous Systems

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
If nuclear abolition was to be achieved, then a shift would be required from an international nuclear non-proliferation regime that limits the number of nuclear-armed states to a global zero regime that prevents the re-emergence of nuclear-armed states ...
Kazuko Hikawa
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Nuclear power in New Zealand: Attitudes and prospects [PDF]

, 2008
Traditional New Zealand attitudes with regard to all things nuclear are subjected to critical scrutiny. It is argued that these may frequently lead us to take policy positions that do not best serve our national interests.
Smith, Ron C.
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Nuclear Weapons Don’t Belong on Our Planet

Journal for Peace and Nuclear Disarmament
In January 2024, the newly appointed Executive Director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), Melissa Parke, visited Hiroshima and Nagasaki for the first time, where she met with atomic bomb survivors (hibakusha), officials ...
Melissa Parke
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Non-strategic nuclear weapons: the next step in multilateral arms control [PDF]

This paper by Crispin Rovere and Kalman A Robertson addresses the many barriers to including tactical nuclear weapons in disarmament talks. It considers the difficulty of bringing other emerging powers such as China into the nuclear arms control equation.
Crispin Rovere, Kalman A Robertson
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An Optimum Organisation [PDF]

, 1998
YesThe Ad Hoc Group (AHG) of the States Parties to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention (BTWC) have touched from time to time on the question of the organisation needed to implement the legally binding instrument being negotiated to strengthen ...
Pearson, Graham S.
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Taking \u3ci\u3eSteel Seizure\u3c/i\u3e Seriously: The Iran Nuclear Agreement and the Separation of Powers [PDF]

, 2017
This Article examines the constitutional validity of President Obama’s decision, as part of his 2015 agreement with Iran, effectively to repeal seventeen different sanctions provisions for the fifteen-year life of the agreement.
Estreicher, Samuel, Menashi, Steven
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Disarmament in the context of the international economic order [PDF]

This paper focuses on an economic aspect of the disarmament question: the international market of armaments. I shall explore the thesis that arms trade is an increasingly important factor in North-South economic relations, that it affects not only ...
Chichilnisky, Graciela
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