Lottaz, Iwama, and their contributors investigate the role of neutral and nonaligned European states during the negotiations for the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT).
Focusing on the years from the Irish Resolution of 1958 until the treaty’s opening for signatures ten years later, the nine chapters written by area experts highlight the processes and reasons for the political and diplomatic actions the neutrals took, and how those impacted the multilateral treaty negotiations. The book reveals new aspects of the dynamics that lead to this most consequential multilateral breakthrough of the Cold War. In part one, three chapters analyze the international system from a bird’s eye perspective, discussing neutrality, nonalignment, and the nuclear order. The second part features six detailed case studies on the politics and diplomacy of Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Switzerland, Austria, and Yugoslavia. Overall, this study suggests that despite the volatile and dangerous nature of the early Cold War, the balance of the strategic environment enabled actors that were not part of one or the other alliance system to play a role in the interlocking global politics that finally created the nuclear regime that defines international relations until today.
A valuable resource for scholars of nonproliferation, the Cold War, neutrality, nonalignment, and area studies.
The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons [Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND)] 4.0 license.
"1. Introduction Pascal Lottaz and Yoko Iwama Part I: The Global View 2. Neutrality, Neutralism, and Nonalignment in the Early Cold War Pascal Lottaz 3. The Making of the ""1968 Global Nuclear Order"" Yoko Iwama 4. Neutral and Nonaligned Nations in the Making of the Postcolonial Nuclear Order Jonathan R. Hunt Part II: Country Studies 5. Ireland: Frank Aiken’s Early Steps to Contain Nuclear Proliferation Mervyn O’Driscoll 6. Sweden: Nuclear Acquisition or Disarmament? Thomas Jonter 7. Finland: From Curious Observer to Active Accommodator of the NPT Process Tapio Juntunen 8. Switzerland: The Nuclear Path and the NPT Benno Zogg 9. Austria: The NPT, Diplomacy, and National Identity Anna Graf-Steiner and Herbert R. Reginbogin 10. Yugoslavia: The Creation of a Nuclear Policy in the 1960s Marko Miljković"
Pascal Lottaz is Associate Professor for Neutrality Studies at Kyoto University, Japan. Yoko Iwama is Professor of International Relations at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies (GRIPS), Tokyo, Japan.
