Political Science 1020E Lecture 23: Lecture 23
26 Mar 2017
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New challenges, new security: securitization of civil war because it leads to, forced migration, spread of weapons and insurgents, development of regional wars, swings in crucial commodity prices, other issue areas becoming securitized, 1. Explore the origins and terms of the non-proliferation. Power 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 interstate in interstate cooperation. Nuclear non-proliferation regime: 1957: international atomic energy agency (iaea, 1964-68: interstate negotiations, 1968: non-proliferation treaty, in force 1970, 190 signatories, major holdouts: india, pakistan, israel, the npt was renewed in 1995. Establish where the nukes are, and where they might be. Who acquired nukes: the nuclear family, usa (1945, ussr (1949, uk (1952, france (1958, china (1964, israel (1966, india (1974, south africa (1978, pakistan (1989, north korea (2000)
