Book contents
- Humanitarian Disarmament
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 148
- Humanitarian Disarmament
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Treaties
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Origins of Humanitarian Disarmament
- 3 The Manhattan Project to ‘Operation Rolling Thunder’
- 4 Humanitarian Disarmament Rising
- 5 Humanitarian Disarmament Triumphant?
- 6 Humanitarian Disarmament Consolidated?
- 7 The Humanitarian Campaigns against Nuclear Weapons
- 8 Rethinking Humanitarian Disarmament
- 9 Conclusion
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
9 - Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2020
Book contents
- Humanitarian Disarmament
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law: 148
- Humanitarian Disarmament
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Table of Cases
- Table of Treaties
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Origins of Humanitarian Disarmament
- 3 The Manhattan Project to ‘Operation Rolling Thunder’
- 4 Humanitarian Disarmament Rising
- 5 Humanitarian Disarmament Triumphant?
- 6 Humanitarian Disarmament Consolidated?
- 7 The Humanitarian Campaigns against Nuclear Weapons
- 8 Rethinking Humanitarian Disarmament
- 9 Conclusion
- Index
- Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
Summary
My core argument in this book has been that, far from being an invention of the post–Cold War era, humanitarian disarmament has had a long and complex history dating back at least 150 years to the St Petersburg Declaration in 1868. My aim in drawing out that history (or at least some of it) has been to expose humanitarian disarmament’s failures as well as successes, ebbs as well as flows, limitations as well as potential. I have shown that humanitarian disarmament, both in practice and in theory, is a complex and politicised concept, and one which is still evolving today.
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- Humanitarian DisarmamentAn Historical Enquiry, pp. 243 - 246Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020