Description: Covering a range of issues related to dynamic norm change in the current major international arms control regimes related to nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons; small arms and light weapons; cluster munitions; and antipersonnel mines. Arms control policies of all of the key established and rising state actors are considered.
Brief description: CARMEN WUNDERLICH is a research associate at the Peace Research Institute Frankfurt, and PhD student at Frankfurt University.
Review Quotes:
This important volume demonstrates that moral considerations are not just rhetorical fig leaves that cover crass national interests regarding nuclear weapons policy. The authors show how ethical considerations permeate, often in subtle ways, both public debates and international negotiations about how to limit nuclear proliferation and encourage nuclear disarmament.
--Scott D. Sagan "editor of Inside Nuclear South Asia"