Political Science 1020E Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: International Atomic Energy Agency, Nuclear Proliferation, Securitization
4 Oct 2016
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Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Lecture 23 - International Regime Case Study: Nuclear
Non-Proliferation
[Continued from 22]
New Challenges, New Security
-Securitization of Civil War - Because it Leads to:
•Forced Migration (Refugee migration affects other countries)
•Spread of weapons and insurgents (from and to international countries/borders not at strict)
•Development of regional wars
•Swings in crucial commodity prices
~Civils wars are not just conflicts of the state. In our globalizing world, they become
international conflict~
-Other Issue areas becoming securitized: (securitized = issues that need not be matters of
security but are becoming matters of security through politicization or manipulation)
•State Formation
•Environmental Degradation
•Communicable Disease
•Poverty
[Lecture 23 start]
Postwar Proliferation
-1945: Nuclear explosions in Hiroshima and Nagasaki
-1945-64:
•Cold War-Era expansion of US-USSR Stockpiles, Tests
•Growing number of nuclear powers
•Early signs of interest in Interstate Cooperation
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime
-1957: International Atomic Energy Agency (provides inspections
capacity to ensure treaty terms are being held to)
-1964-68: Interstate Negotiations (over non-proliferation. States had
come to the conclusion that if you can’t get rid of nuclear weapons,
maybe we can at least stop their spread)
-1968: Non-Proliferation Treaty signed, in force in 1970
•190 Signatories (over a period of time)
•Major Holdouts: India, Pakistan, Israel
-NPT was renewed in 1995
NPT Terms
-Non-Nuclear Weapons States (NNWS) Agree to:
•Not to acquire nuclear weapons
•Agree to submit to IAEA Inspections
-Nuclear Weapons States (NWS) Agree to:
•Not to transfer weapons to NNWS
•To begin Nuclear Disarmament
•To help NNWS Develop Nuclear Power for Civilian use (Getting something from a treaty)
Who Acquired Nukes? (Don’t need to know dates, know the members)
-The Nuclear ‘Family’
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Document Summary
Lecture 23 - international regime case study: nuclear. ~civils wars are not just con icts of the state. In our globalizing world, they become international con ict~ Other issue areas becoming securitized: (securitized = issues that need not be matters of security but are becoming matters of security through politicization or manipulation: state formation, environmental degradation, communicable disease, poverty. 1945: nuclear explosions in hiroshima and nagasaki. 1945-64: cold war-era expansion of us-ussr stockpiles, tests, growing number of nuclear powers, early signs of interest in interstate cooperation. 1957: international atomic energy agency (provides inspections capacity to ensure treaty terms are being held to) States had come to the conclusion that if you can"t get rid of nuclear weapons, maybe we can at least stop their spread) 1968: non-proliferation treaty signed, in force in 1970: 190 signatories (over a period of time, major holdouts: india, pakistan, israel.
