Nuclear Responsibility
Defining Responsible Nuclear Statecraft in an Era of Great Power Competition
Nuclear Responsibility
Defining Responsible Nuclear Statecraft in an Era of Great Power Competition
Description
What does it mean to be a responsible nuclear power in 2025? As strategic competition, and indeed great power competition, reemerged in the late 2010s and early 2020s, competing nuclear states increasingly employ the language of nuclear responsibility to label a strategic competitor as an irresponsible actor on the international stage. However, there remains a lack of consensus on what responsibilities nuclear-weapon states are assigned while other states and scholars argue that the possession of nuclear weapons can never be responsible. In Nuclear Responsibility: Defining Responsible Nuclear Statecraft in an Era of Great Power Competition, the editors Todd C. Robinson and Stephanie A. Stapleton have asked a broad range of nuclear scholars and policy practitioners to answer the question, “What is nuclear responsibility?”
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Todd C. Robinson, Air Command and Staff College, USA and Stephanie A. Stapleton, Kennesaw State University, USA
Chapter 1: Reconceptualizing Nuclear Responsibility by Todd C. Robinson, Air Command and Staff College, USA and Alice Spilman, University of Birmingham, UK
Chapter 2: From One Cold War to the Next: Hedging as an Enduring Imperative by Kyle Balzer, American Enterprise Institute, USA
Chapter 3: Nuclear Responsibility and the Shift in U.S. Disarmament Rhetoric by Tyler Bowen, U.S. Naval War College, USA
Chapter 4: The Emerging American Consensus on the Responsibility to Modernize, Compete, and Win by Robert Peters, The Heritage Foundation, USA
Chapter 5: Nuclear Responsibility in an Age of Integrated Deterrence: Does “Doing More” Lead to Better Responsibility? by E. Paige Reid, School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, USA
Chapter 6: Sharing is Caring? The (Ir)responsibility of NATO's Nuclear Sharing Policy by Linde Desmaele, Leiden University, Netherlands
Chapter 7: China's Views of Its Responsibilities as a Nuclear Weapon State by Brendan Mulvaney, China Aerospace Studies Institute, USA
Chapter 8: Shifting Responsibilities: North Korea's Pursuit of Nuclear Weapons as a Security Imperative by Jinwon Lee, University of Illinois at Urbana– Champaign, USA
Chapter 9: Gender, Feminism, and Constructions of Nuclear Responsibility by Sophia Poteet, James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies, USA
Chapter 10: Beyond Blame: Fostering Inclusive Dialogue on Nuclear Responsibilities
by Eva-Nour Repussard, British American Security Information Council, UK
Chapter 11: Justification and critique in the global nuclear order: Nuclear (ir)responsibility as practice by Megan Dee, University of Stirling, UK
Conclusion by Todd C. Robinson, Air Command and Staff College, USA and Stephanie A. Stapleton, Kennesaw State University, USA
Bibliography
About the Editors
About the Contributors
Product details
| Published | 05 Mar 2026 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (PDF) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 288 |
| ISBN | 9798216258964 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 11 tables and 3 figures |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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