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Justice and Fairness in the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2013

Nina Tannenwald
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Abstract

Today, the nuclear regime is widely perceived to be in crisis. While part of this crisis has to do with direct challenges to the regime posed by the illicit nuclear programs of North Korea and Iran, from the perspective of much of the developing world, the issues facing the nonproliferation regime are overwhelmingly about the justice and fairness of the regime's norms, rules, and procedures. Indeed, it is difficult to identify a security regime today where equity issues are more central to debates about its future than the nuclear nonproliferation regime. Of the three regimes for controlling weapons of mass destruction (chemical, biological, and nuclear), it is in the nuclear regime that issues of justice and fairness appear most critical to long-term sustainability and viability.

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Roundtable: Nonproliferation in the 21st Century
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Ethics & International Affairs , Volume 27 , Issue 3 , Fall 2013 , pp. 299 - 317
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Copyright © Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs 2013 

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