This book focuses on comprehending the contemporary global security environment, creating a new roadmap for nuclear disarmament by creating a balance between deterrence supporters and disarmament advocators.
Analyses emerging and future security architecture in light of the contemporary key literature on the subject of nuclear disarmament.
Offers a renewed mechanism to promote peace and achieve disarmament in the twenty-first century.
Rizwana Abbasi is an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies at the National University of Modern Languages in Islamabad, Pakistan. She has taught at many universities in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America. She received her PhD from the University of Leicester, UK, specializing in International Security and Nuclear Non-proliferation. Previous publications include Nuclear Deterrence in South Asia: New Technologies and Challenges to Sustainable Peace (with Zafar Khan, 2019) and Pakistan and the New Nuclear Taboo: Regional Deterrence and the International Arms Control Regime (2012).
Introduction 1. Nuclear Disarmament: Tracing Lessons from History 2. Competing Approaches: Identifying the Gaps 3. Contemporary Security Environment: New Technologies and Nuclear Disarmament 4. Bridging the Gap: Creating a New Security Environment for Nuclear Disarmament Conclusion