At a moment when the nuclear nonproliferation regime is under
duress, Rebecca Davis Gibbons provides a trenchant analysis of the
international system that has, for more than fifty years,
controlled the spread of these catastrophic weapons. The Hegemon's
Tool Kit details how that regime works and how, disastrously, it
might falter.   In the early nuclear age,
experts anticipated that all technologically-capable states would
build these powerful devices. That did not happen. Widespread
development of nuclear arms did not occur, in large part, because a
global nuclear nonproliferation regime was created. By the
late-1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had drafted the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and
across decades the regime has expanded, with more agreements and
more nations participating. As a result, in 2022, only nine states
possess nuclear weapons.   Why do most states
in the international system adhere to the nuclear nonproliferation
regime? The answer lies, Gibbons asserts, in decades of painstaking
efforts undertaken by the US government. As the most powerful state
during the nuclear age, the United States had many tools with which
to persuade other states to join or otherwise support
nonproliferation agreements.  The waning of US global
influence, Gibbons shows in The Hegemon's Tool Kit, is a key threat
to the nonproliferation regime. So, too, is the deepening global
divide over progress on nuclear disarmament. To date, the Chinese
government is not taking significant steps to support the nuclear
nonproliferation regime, and as a result, the regime may face a
harmful leadership gap.Â
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