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Humanitarian Disarmament: An Historical Enquiry


ISBN13: 9781108473927
Published: August 2020
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £89.99
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The humanitarian framing of disarmament is not a novel development, but rather represents a re-emergence of a much older and long-standing sensibility of humanitarianism in disarmament. It rejects the 'big bang' theory that presents the Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention 1997, and its successors – the Convention on Cluster Munitions 2008, and the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons 2017 – as a paradigm shift from an older traditional state-centric approach towards a more progressive humanitarian approach. It shows how humanitarian disarmament has a long and complex history, which includes these treaties.

This book argues that the attempt to locate the birth of humanitarian disarmament in these treaties is part of the attempt to cleanse humanitarian disarmament of politics, presenting humanitarianism as a morally superior discourse in disarmament. However, humanitarianism carries its own blind spots and has its own hegemonic leanings. It may be silencing other potentially more transformative discourses.

  • Provides a thorough and systematic account of how humanitarian disarmament has evolved over a 150 year period from 1868 – 2017
  • Provides a detailed assessment of three contemporary disarmament regimes: Anti-personnel landmines; cluster munitions; and nuclear weapons
  • Draws on inter-disciplinary work to show some difficulties in relying on a humanitarian discourse to advance disarmament efforts

Subjects:
Public International Law, Legal History
Contents:
1. Introduction
2. The Origins of Humanitarian Disarmament
3. The Manhattan Project to 'Operation Rolling Thunder': Humanitarian Disarmament Sidelined
4. Humanitarian Disarmament Rising: The Vietnam War and the Campaigns Against Indiscriminate Weapons
5. Humanitarian Disarmament Triumphant? The Anti-Personnel Landmines Convention 1997
6. Humanitarian Disarmament Consolidated? The Convention of Cluster Munitions
7. Humanitarian Disarmament Campaigns Against Nuclear Weapons
8. Rethinking Humanitarian Disarmament
9. Conclusion