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Author Mallard, Grégoire, 1977- author.

Title Fallout : nuclear diplomacy in an age of global fracture / Grégoire Mallard.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 370 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Explaining recursive cycles of treaty interpretation : the role of transparency, ambiguity, and opacity -- Secrecy and transparency in the early nuclear age : how they both failed World Federalists -- Ambiguity and preemptive interpretation : how legal indeterminacy failed the Eurofederalists -- Opacity in legal interpretation : the transatlantic negotiations of the Euratom Treaty -- The price of opacity : how new leaders clarify opaque treaty rules -- The resilience of opacity in a changing international legal environment : how Europe weighted East-West negotiations of the NPT -- The singular legacies of nuclear opacity : the difficult road toward the universalization of the NPT regime.
Summary Many Baby Boomers still recall crouching under their grade-school desks in frequent bomb drills during the Cuban Missile Crisis-a clear representation of how terrified the United States was of nuclear war. Thus far, we have succeeded in preventing such catastrophe, and this is partly due to the various treaties signed in the 1960s forswearing the use of nuclear technology for military purposes. In Fallout, Grégoire Mallard seeks to understand why some nations agreed to these limitations of their sovereign will-and why others decidedly did not. He builds his investigation around the 1968 signing of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT), which, though binding in nature, wasn't adhered to consistently by all signatory nations. Mallard looks at Europe's observance of treaty rules in contrast to the three holdouts in the global nonproliferation regime: Israel, India, and Pakistan. He seeks to find reasons for these discrepancies, and makes the compelling case that who wrote the treaty and how the rules were written--whether transparently, ambiguously, or opaquely--had major significance in how the rules were interpreted and whether they were then followed or dismissed as regimes changed. In honing in on this important piece of the story, Mallard not only provides a new perspective on our diplomatic history, but, more significantly, draws important conclusions about potential conditions that could facilitate the inclusion of the remaining NPT holdouts. Fallout is an important and timely book sure to be of interest to policy makers, activists, and concerned citizens alike.
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Subject Nuclear nonproliferation -- International cooperation -- History.
Nuclear nonproliferation -- International cooperation.
History.
Treaties -- Interpretation and construction -- History -- 20th century.
Treaties -- Interpretation and construction.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Diplomacy -- History -- 20th century.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- International.
Diplomacy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Mallard, Grégoire, 1977-. Fallout : Nuclear Diplomacy in an Age of Global Fracture. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2014 9780226157894 (DLC) 2014000141
ISBN 9780226157924 (electronic book)
022615792X (electronic book)
9780226157894 (print)