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Nuclear Realism - Global political thought during the thermonuclear revolution (Hardcover)
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Nuclear Realism - Global political thought during the thermonuclear revolution (Hardcover)
Series: New International Relations
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This book claims that the need for new, substantive thinking about
nuclear weapons presents a significant opportunity to reassess and
broaden our view of realism in politics. What, today, is a realist
response to nuclear weapons? This book is animated by the idea that
contemporary attempts to confront the challenge of nuclear weapons
and other global security problems of the modern age would benefit
from richer historical foundations. To this end, the book revisits,
re-articulates and reclaims a particular type of sophisticated, yet
largely overlooked responses to the thermonuclear revolution. The
aim is to widen the horizon of current conversations on nuclear
weapons as well as to spur caution and reflection about the
governance of global security more broadly. Foreshadowing the
'critical turn' in IR theory, nuclear realism provided a critique
of dominant approaches to war and military force in the face of
large-scale destruction, reflections on the meaning and
implications of 'national security', and attention to the
far-reaching encroachments that nuclear state apparatuses and the
increasing militarization of social life involved.Moreover, it also
included a revised conception of the relationship between liberty
and political authority, appreciated environmental problems within
a global ecological vision, and dissected the role of technology in
improving, structuring, restricting and endangering human life.
This work provokes a discussion that will be instructive and
rewarding at a time when nuclear weapons and other planetary
security problems demand attention and political action.
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