The “global nuclear order” is commonly understood as an evolving set of institutions, norms, and practices governing the development use technology worldwide. pursuit order often portrayed a “pragmatic” or “practical” compromise between unconstrained anarchy, on one hand, prompt steps toward disarmament, other. In this article, I tools ideology critique to conceptualize discourse political that...

Abstract First published in International Affairs 96: 5, September 2020, pp. 1387–1403

Member-states of the Association Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) support norms nuclear disarmament and security through diplomatic efforts at global level regional to promote safety security. This is demonstrated in how ASEAN helped push for negotiation Treaty on Prohibition Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) its eventual passage, as well ongoing cooperation advancing safety. Regional frameworks mechanisms...

The global politics of nuclear disarmament has become deeply contested over the past decade, particularly around negotiation 2017 Treaty on Prohibition Nuclear Weapons (TPNW). Different explanations are offered, but these tend to centre geopolitics ‘security environment’ conceived in realist terms. This article makes sense TPNW and by examining its underlying discourse contestation within a wid...

Aaron Karp is Senior Faculty Associate with the Graduate Programs in International Studies at Old Dominion University and Assistant Professor at the US Armed Forces Staff College. He is the author of Ballistic Missile Proliferation: The Politics and Technics (Oxford University Press, 1996). This essay is based on a presentation at the United Nations Regional Disarmament Meeting in the Asia-Paci...