Abstract
Over the last few decades, nation states have established a complex but largely stable nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament regime. Yet, during the last 15 years, the regime’s hegemonic structure has come under increasing pressure. This chapter argues that the European Union’s particular consensus regarding the non-proliferation and disarmament regime has conditioned different European responses to each challenge. First, it has deliberately accommodated the institutional challenge by the United States to create informal institutions outside the established regime framework. Second, it has undeliberately accommodated the power challenge by India, which seeks increasing recognition as a nuclear weapon state by the regime members. Third, it entrenches whenever it is confronted with an ideational challenge by countries in the Global South to prioritise nuclear disarmament over nuclear non-proliferation.
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Kienzle, B. (2016). The Irony of History: European Responses to the Contested Evolution of the Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament Regime. In: Barbé, E., Costa, O., Kissack, R. (eds) EU Policy Responses to a Shifting Multilateral System. The European Union in International Affairs. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54758-3_2
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